last hurrah with the evil plastic in my wallet

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I love this quote. And this one. And this dish.

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.” (-George Santayana)
Yup. That sums it up pretty well. I love this [...]

I’ll be ok in five minutes. Just let me type this.

Why does everything have to be so painful right at this moment?
The stupidest things just happened. My mother called to tell me that she felt bad for my sister because she had a bad day. That’s it. That’s all. And I’m temporarily incapacitated with grief.
I am usually good at letting things roll off of me, [...]

spring break!

So you’d think that because I am technically on spring break that I would have tons of time to write interesting and maybe even thought -provoking posts… but unfortunately I am spending it getting caught up on domestic stuff, working on a huge project for grad school, planning what to do with my classes for [...]

does this make me uppity?

A while ago a friend wore this t-shirt and proudly spread his arms for me to examine it, thinking I’d love it since I’m an English teacher and all:
Ok. Haha. I get it. “Prose before hos,” like “bros before hos” (or, my own personal play on those words, “chicks before dicks”). [...]

Francis Bean, I simply adore you.

I have never watched American Idol. Not even one episode.
The only time I even touch People Magazine is when I am in a waiting room and didn’t bring my own reading material.
But I must admit that I DO have one (and only one) celebrity obsession: FRANCIS BEAN COBAIN. I  remember when she was born, on [...]

taxes…

 Things  I realized today as I did my taxes (ok, had them done for me):
* The IRS does not like single people (this is bad for me)
* However, they do like graduate students (cha-ching),  working people with student loan interest (cha-chiiiinnnggg) and poor people (jackpot!).
* No matter how high maintenance she is, I cannot [...]

Evidence that CJ rocks:

EXHIBIT A:

Apparently he got inspired while I was at work yesterday, becasue this was on my coffee table when I got home. I’m sure he was suppressing the urge to put in something like “shedevil”. I’ll ignore “beers” and “harp” (one of his favorite beers) and assume that he put them there so he [...]

St. Pat’s Entry #2: James Joyce

Ok. This is absolute insanity. I stumbled across it a little while ago, and it completely blows me away… not just that Joyce managed to cram all of these words into Ulysses (if you attempted to read the novel in high school or college, you’ll believe it), but that someone actually either spent years assembling [...]

crazy girls say “sláinte!”

Ironic that that Irish toast actually means “to your health”… I think my drunken mouth  attempted to utter that sentiment just before I took a shot of tequila from between my friend Mi’s boobs last night. Oh yeah. Then I squeezed a lime on them and licked it off. And might I add, we were [...]