November 2011
listening to "Florence The Machine - Remain... →
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Shoot. I missed the Baltimore City Paper’s lit contest deadline by like five days. It’s not even that I needed to finish writing something. I already had a few pieces ready to submit. I plain forgot…ugh, so stupid.
On the plus side, I finally submitted to my school’s lit magazine and I submitted to a local lit contest with a $250 grand prize. Which is probably more money...
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Trying to get a few people out of my life. So I’ll be mirrorsmirages for a bit.
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“All I know is I’m losing my mind. I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and...”
– Franny, from JD Salinger’s Franny and Zooey
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menswear
lopsided breasts only visible with heaving breaths she drapes her uncle’s faded fishing flannel over her prom dress she likes the silver slinkiness where it’s pulled taut across her slim and skinniness but her secret asymmetry is revealed by the silkiness
I know, I know, I’m really strange, I can’t help it.
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Eid Mubarak! How did you celebrate your Eid?
We went to the mosque, and for the first time ever we were actually early, it was lovely. The sermon was nice, it was (of course) about sacrifice. Very stimulating. Then we got together with a few of families from our local masjid at a halal seafood and Chinese food restaurant. So I actually got to eat sushi and stuff without worrying about whether...
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Oh, wait, if Eid is tomorrow...
Then that means that today I have to:
Finish all my homework quickly so I can do other stuff
Start writing my debate case for Monday
Clean the whole house because no one else is going to do it and we’re going to have guests coming tomorrow
Do everyone’s laundry because no one else knows how
Wash the dishes because the sink is full and no one else feels like washing them
Clean my...
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Taking advantage of the three-day weekend to write my debate case just kidding, my NaNoWriMo piece. I hesitate to call it a novel because I always lose heart about three chapters in, slap a title and resolution on it, and call it a short story.
My dad ordered David McRaney’s book You Are Not So Smart for me. Love him.
Everyone always says stuff like “boys will be boys” but I...
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Isn’t it telling how we’ve shifted in our terminology over time?
What we used to call social networking has now become social media.
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The Fruit They Bore →
My father is not a particularly handy man, as my mother will not hesitate to explain, and he has never been one. He fixes my closet door when the hinges malfunction, and he taught me how to change light bulbs safely and mow the lawn evenly, but other than that there’s not much I remember. My mother has been pleading with him for years to pave the driveway and he hasn’t made a move to...
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Anonymous asked: HEY! so word around school is that your a bit of an english genius! do you have roader for ap eng? i know everyone says she's easy but she's super criticical of my writing! can you post some of the essays or something you write for her?
I didn’t know they made Everything is Illuminated into a movie!
Is it good? Should I watch it or will it ruin the experience of the novel?
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Weighty eBooks →
futurejournalismproject:
A scientist demonstrates that when you fill your Kindle with digital books, it actually gets heavier.
Via The Telegraph:
Using Einstein’s E=mc² formula, which states that energy and mass are directly related, Prof Kubiatowicz calculated that filling a 4GB Kindle to its storage limit would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram, or...
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The xx has started recording their second album. So happy.
Also they have a Tumblr. Yes.
fruitfulpetrichor replied to your post: fruitfulpetrichor replied to your post:…
HAHAHAA do you remember that stinkbug story last year? Mrs Hiaasen pulled me out of pre calc specifically for it. People still give me grief over it. and the Griffin quotes me for EVERYTHING and i dont know i feel weird about it hah
Yeah, the majority of our staff is made up of junior girls so, of course,...
fruitfulpetrichor replied to your post: fruitfulpetrichor replied to your post: Dulaney…
NOPE. I saw one when I was in DC tho! Oh and even if I did go to one, I sorta really hate it when the Griffin quotes me, not gonna lie. hah sorry bud. good luck though.
Soophia, aw, why? :/
fruitfulpetrichor replied to your post: Dulaney kids who #Occupied any city should let me…
~*Griffin famous*~ aye?
What other kind of famous is there?
Did you attend one of the protests?
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Dulaney kids who #Occupied any city should let me know. Please. I can make you famous.
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I feel feeble. Not old - demolished, somehow.
October 2011
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Is Hell exothermic or endothermic? →
ghsting:
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term. The answer was so “profound” that the Professor shared it with colleagues, and the sharing obviously hasn’t ceased… Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law, (gas cools off when it...
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Obligatory follower count rant. (Also, boo, no...
Sorry, I don’t mean to be focused on how many followers I have, but it’s concerning when I get five new followers (thank you, dears)…and my counter shows five less followers than when I last checked.
I think all of Tumblr has conspired to not let me get to 500 followers ever. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve hit 499, but then it drops by like 40 and I have to...
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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Ah, thanks, I was looking for this quote! I basically re-read half the novel in unsuccessful my search.
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Historical fiction recommendations?
I read Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders a few months ago and decided that I was going to try to re-discover historical fiction. It’s always been one of my favorite genres but I keep letting it slip and then it starts seeming dull again. But a few weeks ago my class finished reading Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.
And I want more. I’m going to continue with Geraldine Brooks,...
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His death had sockets and keys, it had walls and beams. It had a handle which you could not hold and a floor you could not lie down on in the middle of the night.
In the freakish pink and gray of dawn I took his death to bed with me and his death was my bed and in every corner of the room it hid from the light,
and then it was the light of day and the next day and all the days to follow,...
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“Like I said, Tweet ‘em. Tweet ‘em. They’re all Tweeting all over the place....”
– President Obama, telling students at a rally at the University of Colorado how to get Congress’s attention.
My dad and I were watching this a few minutes ago and we started cracking up at how cute Obama was when he said this.
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Anonymous asked: Ratio of Legal to Illegal Music you own. (saw this one on my dash and wanted to ask you!!)
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psychoanalyze me. →
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City Hall declares Occupy Baltimore's camping... →
City officials declared Tuesday that overnight camping is illegal at the downtown plaza where protesters with the Occupy Baltimore movement have been staying in tents for three weeks.
The decision frustrated many of the protesters, but city officials did not say whether the group would be cleared from McKeldin Square, at the intersection of Pratt and Light streets.
A spokesman for Mayor...
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Me: Someone brought in blondies- these cookie-brownie things - today in our class party, oh my God, we need a recipe. So good.
My mom: "Blondies"?
Me: Yeah. Someone brought in brownies too.
My mom: Blondies? And brownies?
Me: Yeah.
My mom: So it was interracial party, then.
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I seem to have this psychological block that limits my understanding of math and science. I know logically that I’m not stupid, but when lacrosse bros that are high on who-knows-what understand physics more than I do…the evidence is convincing.
Nothing makes sense to me. I have no math logic.
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“Why is Obama wasting his time making a TUMBLR ACCOUNT when there’s so many other important things in the world? We’re in war! We’re in debt! We’re unemployed! We’re starving! We’re protesting! We need him to fix things and he’s goofing off on the Internet!”
Et cetera, et cetera. Why is this all over my dash? I thought I was following...
Anonymous asked: do you live in NYC?
Anonymous asked: I feel like when you write you're original but mostly you just reblog things so you're like very unoriginal..
namur:
most photographs of the streets of baltimore are taken from the safety of the inside of a running and locked car at a stop sign, typically en route to a safe place, like a home, restaurant, or workplace. whether the windows are up or down when the photos are taken is a more complex equation involving the density of of stop signs in the area, the number of fiends out, the number of dealers...