February 2012
Rory's Mom had told her to come home at 6:15 for...
Me: It's 6:15pm
Orion: Yeah, I just noticed that
Rory:
...
Me: It's 6:20pm
Rory: Oh, don't worry, i won't get in trouble with my mom. I never get grounded or anything.
Me: ...
Me: Well... what if you get in trouble with me?
Rory: Huh? What do you mean?
Me: Like, I might not let you come over next time.
Rory: What do you mean?
Me: I think that sentence was pretty clear.
“Mom, no offense but… Orion’s dad is a pretty fun parent.”
– Orion’s friend Rory, when her mom came to our door.
Sheesh. And his heart ego grew three sizes that day.
“My dad is the best dad in the world. Because he’s mine.”
– O
Sometimes, I feel like I’m letting my son down by being laid up on the couch feeling icky so damn often, and then he says something like this and… well, it’s not perfect, but it’s okay. And that’s something.
No, no, my eyes are just watering. Must be allergies or...
My son has friends over. They’ve split into two teams, are building with Legos, and in the end, I’m supposed to choose a winner.
Meanwhile, after a pretty good morning of feeling well, I’m having mild heart palpitations, keeping an eye on my heart rate with my pulse oximeter, and feeling icky. What is up with you, body? What. Is. Up?
I saw my doc this morning, reviewed various...
Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes →
Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact
Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the...
“The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then...”
– Unknown (via selfinspiration)
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🎶 I don't care too much for monkeys, because...
Now sing it to “Can’t Buy Me Love”.
Now imagine what it’s like to live in my brain all the time.
Now understand why I’d have Weird Al Yankovic play me in a movie, without regard to any physical resemblance (or lack thereof.)
I love you dreamers.
Do you ever daydream? What about?
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Sometimes, I think I’m afraid to fall asleep, because it has taken all day to get to the point where I don’t feel like crap, and there’s a very good chance that when I wake up in the morning, I’ll be starting all over from “crap” again.
A few minutes ago, it occurred to me that I could be going through a flare up of Crohn’s disease the past few days, and...
“Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it...”
– Bruce Lee (via darrenbracey)
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“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
so you want to be a writer?
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. if you’re doing it because you want women in...
“Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood,...”
– Zen Proverb (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is...”
– Gary Zukav (via lucifelle)
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Depression
I so do not want to be awake. Not because I’m tired, though. But because merely being, is painful. Thankfully, I called my clinic yesterday and told them that the new antidepressants clearly aren’t working vey well. I see someone about that tomorrow. I have a different appointment today, and I wish I didn’t have to go. I wish I could crawl back into bed and hide from...
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Lake Vostok Predictions
rinaedin:
jacobius:
Now that we’ve reached Lake Vostok, the buried-in-ice Antarctic lake, perhaps the most ancient untouched lake (20 Million Years I think, since it last saw the surface?), here are some things I think we should expect:
1) Waterbears in the lake. Because waterbears are everywhere. Even in space.
2) $160 bottles of ancient Lake Vostok water on the black market. You can make a...
I awoke after a lovely 12-hoursof sleep, not wanting to open my eyes, so that I could linger in the memory of my dreams. They were dreams of old, dear friends, and crushes I have had, and days gone by—days when it was enough to believe that love could be salvation, a source of enough happiness to make the pains of living seem a bargain.
Though my eyes are open now, I still wish I could hold...
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin (via overcc)
“When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither...”
– Thomas Paine (via azspot)
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I'm not sure what to do with what I feel right now
Except learn not to eat garlic-and-jalapeño-stuffed olives before bed, because what I feel right now is a stomach-ache. Ow. But yum.
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Four days a week, there’s a moment—right about this time—when I realize my son will be home from school in less than an hour, and I have accomplished nothing productive. I resolve to get up and use this remaining time wisely. Then he comes home, I wonder what I did with my time, and hope to do better tomorrow.
It would be nice to recover my motivation and get some things done around here....
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson (via myquotelibrary)
“Unlike food stamps, nobody is debating making middle-class households take a...”
– Dissecting Romney’s Statement: What Are Problems the Middle-Class Has That the Poor Don’t? | Rortybomb (via abbyjean)
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“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why...”
– Rene Daumal (via thatkindofwoman)
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Haruki Murakami (via theballadofdorothyparker)
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To all Syrians in case the internet is shut off.
occupyallstreets:
في حال انقطاع خدمة الانترنت في سوريا يمكنكم استخدام اﻷرقام التالية للوصول إلى الشبكة:
+4618700800 user:flashback pw: flashback
+3908251872424 any user/password
+3909241962424 any user/password
+16033715050 any user/password
+431962962 user: selfnet password: selfnet
+492317299993 user: telecomix password: telecomix
...
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lickypickystickyfree:
We were looking for an ankle brace and the site brought us anal plugs. Oy….
This is the best description of Tumblr’s new “feature” I’ve heard yet.
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to...”
– Jeremy Cutler
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“We must be constantly vigilant against the attacks of intolerance and injustice....”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt (via lafix)