February 2012
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For all would-be academics. Please reblog widely. →
charlietangofoxtrot:
astationaryjew:
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phdork:
This may well be the best use of the internet ever: crowd-sourcing adjunct working conditions as way to introduce transparency to and positive pressure on institutions that exploit the holy hell out of their highly skilled and dedicated workers.
Get on it.
$6,800 per 3 crédit course would be heaven since I 1,700 meant forgoing...
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Ok. Let's be honest. I know why I'm gaining...
I’m scared. I’m stopping my medication in about a week from today, and last year when I tried, well, I had to return to the hospital. And then I had to drop my semester at university. It’s been going so well until now, and I’m so afraid that it will all suddenly stop, as if I’m waking up from a nice dream to face dreadful reality.
So I’m hiding. I’m...
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Anonymous asked: How can you stop loving your soulmate? Oh and love your blog xx
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Life with a chronic illness:
My doctors: You can't do everything. You need to slow down and rest....
My teachers: You can't do everything. You need to slow down and rest....
My parents: You can't do everything. You need to slow down and rest....
My body: You can't do everything. You need to slow down and rest....
My mind: Limitations? What limitations?! LET'S GO PURSUE ALL OF MY DREAMS AND DO EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE!!!!!
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慢慢吃: Are you fit for survival? →
runwaykittehs:
Just saw an interesting post (from freerunningit) about setting fitness goals based on the basic fitness of our ancestors. These neat ideas come from this article.
-Could you walk with baby in tow for 4 hours? (Complete a four hour hike with 20lb pack) -Could you fiercely defend yourself…
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January 2012
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What are your Health Goals?
I was thinking of being more committed to my health by exercising more regular, but I got stuck: what is my ultimate goal?
Sure, loosing weight is fun, but all this ‘running’, ‘crunching’, ‘jumping’, ‘dancing’, and ‘walking’, where does it really takes you?
I might be naive, but I’ve seen people in TV shows about weight loss...
“He was known to begin classes by barging into the lecture hall, sometimes in...”
– 10 Things you should know about Tolkien
mental_floss
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Nicolas Cage: To steal the Declaration of Independence.
Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.
Salvador Dali: The Fish.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus: For fun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it [censored] wanted to. That's the [censored] reason.
Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
Ronald Reagan: I forget.
John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Mr. T.: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.
Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Molly Yard: It was a hen!
Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.
Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.
The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.
Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.
Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
Othello: Jealousy.
Dr. Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.
Mrs. Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.
Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.
Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.
Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.
Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.
Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.
Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter.)
Hamlet: That is not the question.
Donne: It crosseth for thee.
Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.
Constable: To get a better view.
Yeats: She was following the Faeries that sang to her to come away with them from the dull, bucolic comfort of the farmyard to the waters and the wild.
Shelley: 'Tis a metaphor for the pursuits of man: though 'twas deemed an extraordinary occurrence at the time, still it brought little to bear on the great scheme of time and history, and was ultimately fruitless and forgotten.
Tolkien: Chickens are respectable folk, and well thought of. They never go on any adventures or do anything unexpected. One fine spring day, as the chicken wandered contentedly around the farmyard, clucking and pecking and enjoying herself immensely, there appeared a Wizard and thirteen Dwarves who were in need of a chicken to share in their adventure. Reluctantly she joined their party, and with them crossed the road into the great Unknown, muttering about how rude the Dwarves were to take her away on such short notice, without even giving her time to brush her feathers or fetch her hat.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You...”
– C.S. Lewis
TUMBLR IN ONE QUOTE.
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Sugar and Rainbows: What happens if you fall in... →
iced-t:
karenfelloutofbedagain:
Lots of things might happen. That’s the thing about writers. They’re unpredictable. They might bring you eggs in bed for breakfast, or they might all but ignore you for days. They might bring you eggs in bed at three in the morning. Or they might wake you up for sex at three in the morning. Or make love at four in the afternoon. They might not sleep at all. Or...
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IMAGINE WHAT PRISONS WOULD BE LIKE IF WE ALL GOT...
graydorians:
sendingowls:
that-hipster-moose:
biggest-hunger-games-fans:
INSTEAD OF GANGS- THERE WOULD BE FANDOMS
“UGH, THERE’S ANOTHER FIGHT BETWEEN THE HARRY POTTER FANDOM AND TWILIGHT FANDOM IN THE YARD.”
the supernatural fandom keeps tagging up their part of the courtyard with devil’s traps
the sherlock fandom falling off the roof.
the merlin fandom shouting “SORCERY” at the...
liftheavyshit-and-kickass asked: Thank you, wonderful person. It was an amazing day, everything finally worked out. ♥
December 2011
30 posts
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“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a...”
– Aphra Behn; The Lucky Chance (via wordpainting)
“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.”
– George Dryer (via whynotread)
