May 2012
63 posts
April 2012
61 posts
I remember the first day of English last semester, a old woman who looked older than grandmother, came in with a bright green blazer with hot pink jewelry and shoes. I remember thinking “oh my gosh is this my professor?”
Though she had cancer, every Tuesday and Thursday at 8 am, she came prepared with a smile on her face ready to face the world. Instead of being stuck in bed or...
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Still I Rise,
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed...
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Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.
– Oscar Wilde (via iloveyouperfectly)
Once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via skeletales)
Time to work harder. Be motivated. And focus on what really matters.
When you love someone, there’s a pattern to the way you come together. You might...
– 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult (via forever-and-alwayss)
Spring Break,
starts after this class! Packing tonight and going north tomorrow.
Then I realize that I have four exams, four papers, two online quizzes, and three event projects due the week after Spring Break.
And there went my Spring Break flying out the window. Woosaaaa.