February 2011
1 post
"This city isn't fair"
As honey said, as we ate our FABULOUS first meal in Barcelona here:
But let me start at the beginning:
We arrived around 10am Barcelona time, which is 4am for our bodies. And after barely sleeping on the flight, we were understandably a little groggy, but still excited! After getting super-confused by the train schedule, we finally made it on the way to center city.
Getting off and finding our...
October 2010
4 posts
janeklee:
Kiss Me | Mina Shin feat. Fo Onassis ...
The Joy of Silence
… oh, how I miss you
Are things really going to be different?
Random Ramblings
I haven’t written anything in a while. I’m starting to think that I drank all my creative juices before the age of 15. Been so deprived of writing for me, I damn near spilled my soul in my thesis prospectus.
Started watching SATC 2. Remembered how complicated relationships are and decided to go to a bed race. A bed race. Alone. After the initial excitement was over, I walked home, ran...
September 2010
3 posts
August 2010
1 post
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in...”
– Jim Morrison (via kari-shma) (via sine-qua-non) (via nathanielstuart)
July 2010
1 post
ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND!
Plans are finally finally set for this anniversary. This 7th 7/17 :-). I wanted to do something special… something different from our small anniversary outings (a few picnics in the park, a jazz show, lots of dinners, maybe a movie, BROADWAY/Bubba Gump Shrimp was AWESOME! so was the one in AC (when the pier was brand new)… but still :-P). So what evolved from “let’s go...
June 2010
4 posts
Experience Points.
Yesterday while falling into our food comas at Skylark (by far the best diner I’ve ever been to haha), me, max, and pj decided we were going to measure our summer in experience points (and, apparently, awesome points). The Philippines should have been a million experience points. So much was new to me, so much a valued experience. Finding the nearby dog park we now frequent and falling in...
creativity/refusal to grow up
Bought a pad of pink wide-ruled paper to begin my senior honors thesis.
Had decided I needed it to inspire me.
A few hours later, Real Simple magazine informed me I was a right-side-of-the-brain thinker and organizer who loves to be surrounded by color and chaos.
Phew. And I thought I was just a childish slob.
May 2010
2 posts
Same old change
So I was going through my boxes of books and realized how drastically my reading tastes have changed in the past few years… How I have changed in the past few years… And then I saw an old notebook: ” I hope to refocus my faith and get in shape and get my applications in and read the books I have backed up to read” Yeah… Funny… Four years later with the same...
April 2010
12 posts
“There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of...”
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (via tseliot) (via awritersruminations)
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– - Maya Angelou (via quote-book)
One of my favorite quotes of Maya Angelou. Thank you Nikki for posting!
(via beyondxreality)
“Wherever you are, be there fully. For where you are is where you can most...”
– Make the Most of Where You are, Author Unknown (via damzlfly) (via bridgettelizabeth) (via nathanielstuart)
need to live by this. I’m a plan-aholic
Scrabble pillows →
Jane Lee, remember to make this for my wedding present. Thanks :-)
“Don’t let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you...”
– Rachel Scott (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via simplyadreamer) (via booklover)
SPRINGTIME!!
Painted nails, sundress on, sun shining, pandora songs…
yeah yeah yeah… springtime’s in the air!
Mabango ang mga bulaklak! lmao. oh, rosetta stone…
For my roommates/friends for our continued debate... →
Let’s meet at the bar again and hash this out!
March 2010
16 posts
Static
Judgement poisons my moments, bragging infects the soul. A constant buzzing noise and endless activity surrounds my life. What happened to the serenity? The sepiatone loving? The harmony that comes with being happy with yourself and comfortable with those around you? The happiness that exists on its own, that doesn’t need activity to spur it, that is satisfied with just being? Gossip, lies,...
“The future is just a fucking concept we use to avoid being alive today. So be...”
– Brenda Chenowith (via sixfeetumblr) (via claire78) (via lorettamagnolia) (via untemporale)
(via booklover)
“If we ought to give up one week of our life, we ought to give up a hundred...”
– Pascal, Pensees
“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes...”
– Pascal, Pensees
Though I think my question is not who, but why.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot (via kari-shma)
Today was the first day I considered going to medical school. Thought about being an ob/gyn… I’m sure that thought will pass… Or is it time for my change of field of study crisis we all go through? Haha
“We are constantly disappointed and an absurd humility makes us blame ourselves...”
– Pascal
time for some rainy-day, dark-stormy-night, broken-windshield, can’t-go-home-to-see-Dan, sick-of-television, too-stressed-to-do-homework, book therapy. Paulo Coelho here I come
“All of us exist by peeling off our unused selves”
– Ilan Stavans (upcoming book from RUP!)
iwon'tbeapartofyoursystem!
I had all these qualms when I was younger about society. A lot of don’t-listen-to-society-because-its-just-trying-to-force-you-to-be-someone-you’re-not, don’t-trust-the-system, just-the-MAN-bringing-you-down teenage angst flooding my thoughts. Now that I’m getting nearer to “true adulthood,” these questions arise again: graduate and getting straight into the...
“or what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever...”
– Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via janeklee)
A Writer's Ruminations: Moments →
I’m finding that it’s not always the deep and profound conversations that mean the most to you. Sometimes it’s talking about a singer or a writer, or reading a little note, or having a silly chat. It is a number of things put together that constitute living, not one grand thing by itself. It’s…
“…love comes with responsibility. Love as an emotion is all well and good,...”
– this awesome proof that just landed on my desk.
February 2010
18 posts
“Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves...”
– Tori Amos (via awritersruminations)
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated”
– Maya Angelou (via simplyadreamer) (via booklover)
Change is in the air
Everything is changing…
My boss from the past three semesters left today, our accountant the week before; we have some new hires (including possibly 3 new males! which is crazy considering we were entirely female just last semester); I’m being temporarily promoted to Reprints Manager while the reprints manager is on maternity leave for the summer. (Taking on a full-time publishing job...