January 2012
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December 2011
21 posts
How to be 26
6. Go to weddings
7. Be okay with the increasing number of babies
8. Realize how old you parents are beginning to get
jcv:
How to be 26 years old:
1. Act responsibly sometimes.
2. Act irresponsibly sometimes.
3. Feel very anxious about things you did when you were acting irresponsibly.
4. Notice your eyesight getting worse and your achilles tendons aching.
5. Keep playing video games.
Princeton University Clapper Caper
This story was told for the umpteenth time at Christmas dinner and I felt the need to record it somewhere.
One of our guests for Christmas dinner was a 60-something man named Jamie who my father has known since boarding school (this is all very New England prep, they were both wearing bow-ties, though he was in tweed and my Father was not). Jamie’s grandfather attended Princeton. In those...
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HIGHLIGHTED LIFE: Where have all the cool kids... →
jamesnord:
I have never called myself a nerd. I don’t think this stems from any inherent coolness that I may (or likely don’t) possess, but instead I lack the basic skills needed to be a nerd. Sure, I suppose I have always been smart, even bookish at times but I lack that obsessive thirst for knowledge that…
November 2011
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Hello, I'm taking a break from you
I’ve decided to take a week off from my favorite internet distractions (reddit, somethingawful, twitter, tumblr, facebook, ITP student email list, ffffound, flickr).
I’m not doing this because the internet is bad, or because I don’t think those sites are worthwhile, I’m doing it to reduce the number of distractions in my life. I recently wondered about trying to get a...
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annawiener:
October 2011
29 posts
Seamus Heaney - Postscript
And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightening of flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,
Their...
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