these vagabond shoes

"Imagine you’re sailing to a new home overseas when the unthinkable happens: shipwreck. Somehow in..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:47:42 -0600

“Imagine you’re sailing to a new home overseas when the unthinkable happens: shipwreck. Somehow in all the chaos, you manage to find a lifeboat and scramble aboard with only a backpack containing your laptop, CDs, and DVDs. After several days at sea on the verge of death, you finally float ashore an uncharted island, where you find people in a primitive society without electricity. They ask if you need food and water. “Yes, please,” you gasp. “Fine, what do you have to trade?” Shocked, you eagerly show your electronics. “That is of no use to us. Do you have anything else?” Realizing they’re serious, you ask if you can roam the island for food. “No,” they reply, “All this belongs to us. Go find your own island.” Then, in stunned disbelief, you watch them turn and leave you to die amidst your useless wealth. After considering the obvious evil of this example, I have a simple question. Just how sure are you that it’s perfectly okay for you to enjoy all those electronic gadgets while so many people in this world don’t have food and clean water?”

- Andrew Tallman (via azspot)

today i put bullshit aside and hammered out a 9-page research paper about time, fate, and star...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:53:00 -0600

today i put bullshit aside and hammered out a 9-page research paper about time, fate, and star imagery in romeo and juliet. writing about shakespeare, guys, is weird. and difficult. i don’t know how to do something that has not been done before when it comes to shakespeare.

but the real thing here is, is this gruesome writing process i have now. i noticed there’s a way i do things that feels mine, and it doesn’t all feel so lost, so shot-in-the-dark. there is a method, a sense of approaching, tackling, breaking down, and stacking into neat piles.

but it is still hard because it’s slow. writing is such slow stuff. i can’t write 9 intelligible, interesting pages in one hour. i can’t make sure every sentence flows into the next, and that MLA is perfect, and that my sources aren’t just parroting my thoughts but somehow stand ajar and provocative without time. and it sucks. it really sucks. i know what i want it to look like, and i want to put it down on paper in seconds, but instead, i am sitting in a cafe, stomping my feet, biting pens, rubbing my finger on the rim of glasses trying to sift this writing out in a fine grain instead of letting it be course and choppy like first impulse tells me.

there is great discontinuity between how genius i am in my dome and how human i am on paper, and it is this patience, this willingness to spare all my time to sit and do these things right, and slow, and work hard. i see it now. i get it. i have written hundreds of pages about myself, of paper-thin fiction, and even more research papers, and it all, always, lacks patience.

strangeanduntrue: flickflickflicker: longlivethequeen:(via...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:49 -0600

strangeanduntrue:

flickflickflicker:

longlivethequeen:(via asterismz)

it would take a lot of adjectives to describe what this image just did to my living room.

this is my little brother, george. little is a word i have to...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:04:57 -0600

this is my little brother, george. little is a word i have to use lightly—he’s taller than i am now. he can easily pick me up, thinks it’s hilarious. calls me little big sister. he is 16 to my 20, and we are very, very alike.

what’s cool about this big little dude is that he’s, like, really, actually growing up. this past year from 15 to 16 have meant an entirely different brother, more of a friend, less of someone i am somehow both close to so and know only distantly.

there are still those things about him i wish weren’t true; that he’s mean, and his heart isn’t that deep yet. i think these things might come with time. but for now, especially lately, he has become hilarious and smart and savvy to the workings of our family in ways i thought exclusionary to me. i like having him to talk to about our mom, our dad, their divides, their highs and lows. first hand accounts now shared, years later. and these things make sense. i mean, of course george would eventually grow up, but it is still something i didn’t see coming, but am wholly grateful for.

and really guys, he is exceptionally funny now.

unicornology: bon-bon:(via srsly) unavoidable...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:37:01 -0600

unicornology:

bon-bon:(via srsly)

unavoidable re-blog.

hahahaahahahaaha

dear cat power and chekhov, where have you been my whole life?...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:43:54 -0600

dear cat power and chekhov,

where have you been my whole life? these past two decades now seen vacuous and wasted without your presence. you seem so unrelated, but are so similarly bad ass. i hope my life is more like you guys would approve of from now on. you both are the collective sun of this pre-thanksgiving week 2009’s universe. thanks a million.

love,

jeanine

maggiellen: whytheyrehot: Why He’s Hot: It is Cam Gigandet...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:12:09 -0600

maggiellen:

whytheyrehot:

Why He’s Hot:

~~It is Cam Gigandet people! The fucking hot dude with the greatest blue eyes and a voice like sex. When he smiles, we all die and go to heaven.~~

He has this classic, insanely good-looking, bad boy thing going on, which made him perfect for the role of the bad guy in The OC, and Never Back Down. Oh, and yeah, he plays James in Twilight. He should have been made as famous as Robert Pattinson. ~~I’m gonna make a petition about this.~~

~~He has a victory win for~~ ~~best fight~~ ~~scene at the MTV Movie Awards. Fucking twice! Who doesn’t love tough sturdy guy ?~~

~~He is the sexiest man alive indeed, 8-pack abs. Pure sex.~~ ~~JUST SEE HIM SHIRTLESS HERE! I don’t need to say more.~~

~~Hot dad alert!~~ ~~Yes people, he is a father to a daughter and he seems to love his baby soo much (awhhh). Add that super sweet personality as a bonus.~~

{~~submission~~}

Ryan Atwood: (idk, something along the lines of:) Marissa’s got a drinking problem

VOLCHOCK: she drinks, she gets drunk. i don’t see the problem.

that’s why he’s hot.

some times i am a straight up indignant little child about my time, actually, how little of it is...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:55:24 -0600

some times i am a straight up indignant little child about my time, actually, how little of it is actually MINE.

i just brood over classes i never wanted to take, and alarm clocks, and making lattes all afternoon. it’s so much time i throw away, and it just seems to no end, to no ultimate product.

it gets to the point of outright despair. and i know that it’s childish, which is what makes it so painful, but it just sits in my stomach all day long. little, shallow, anger.

today is one of those days.

so today i decided to make banana bread, because bread is ALWAYS better than throwing something...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:02:33 -0600

so today i decided to make banana bread, because bread is ALWAYS better than throwing something away, and it took the oven almost half an hour to stop smelling like frozen pizza and start smelling like bananas.

remarkable.

when i discovered this weird colony of bumps under my arm, i...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:48:32 -0600

when i discovered this weird colony of bumps under my arm, i asked kelsey about it because she’s a coach. i expect sage wisdom from her. and she told me not to worry about it unless it spreads.

well, it didn’t spread, but it did get scabby so i moved onto my nurse friend, and ultimately, my mother.

the verdict, guys, FUCKING SPIDER BITES.

SPIDERS ARE TRYING TO EAT ME IN MY SLEEP. my mom, best pal that she is, said they’re probably BIG. WOLF. SPIDERS. that live under my bed, and in my shoes, and around the soft spots under my arms where i get really warm at night, and in my brain, and soul.

this, THIS, this flesh-eating, scab-producing, bruising, welting, giant WOUND is why people fear spiders.

/even though part of me still thinks it’s a little cool that this is a spider bite. or series of.

so i wanted to make a scarf for this girl who hangs out with her...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:02:49 -0600

so i wanted to make a scarf for this girl who hangs out with her dad in the cafe frequently. i really love them both. they’re just great people. we make jokes. they have met many members of my family. they are great people, and this girl is just so sweet, and awkward, and 14, and homeschooled. there is something about her i am drawn to. she has potential to be a kick ass person. she IS already a kick ass person, but there’s so much room for growth into an influential, powerful woman here. i wanted to encourage that, so i did what i do, and took hook to lemongrass yarn to stitches with names like zig zag popcorn and made this scarf.

i’ve been on a stitchin’ kick lately, never letting myself repeat a stitch for a new project.

back to the drawing board for about the one billionth time this week. in a word/NEOOFFICE document,...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:06:24 -0600

back to the drawing board for about the one billionth time this week.

in a word/NEOOFFICE document, i have written the single sentence “this is a buddhist text” and every time i close a failed window, a dead-end search, that is what i see. and repeat. and focus on.

this is a buddhist text.

407. Thank a veteran. And then make it up to him.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:22:38 -0600

(via rulesformyunbornson)

i really like this approach.

in case you guys were wondering where my interests have been...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:59:32 -0600

in case you guys were wondering where my interests have been lately.

i’m eating dried fruit and looking up which dairy company has the best treatment of cows,...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:44:42 -0600

i’m eating dried fruit and looking up which dairy company has the best treatment of cows, lowest use of hormones, but still homogenizes their milk.

i am officially a hippie, liberal douche bag. like, i went to the co-op in a mall to buy locally produced milk, not realizing it wasn’t homogenized.

"In theory I’d like to think I’d get in shape by next june but unless the US runs out of..."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:11:21 -0600

“In theory I’d like to think I’d get in shape by next june but unless the US runs out of beer/wine/liquor/single boys, I can guarantee this body figure ain’t goin nowhere….”

- liz podczaski. oh i’m sorry, you were confused as to why we’re bffs? (via caoimhe)

last night my roommates and i started a workout routine and actually had to discuss where beer and gin fit into our new fit lives, knowing we can’t give it up, but deciding how to compensate.

disappointing things about today: 1. glenn beck has a children’s book out. this makes me hope...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:55:07 -0600

disappointing things about today:

1. glenn beck has a children’s book out. this makes me hope children are as intuitive to evil and, well, blatant stupidity as they’re credited. nausea actually took me over when i saw the headline.
2. i had to watch a commercial on the news before i could see the photos of the day.
3. the GEO is maybe going to strike next week, which means no class, but class work’s still due. sooooo we get to be responsible for it without classroom instruction. this is a two-fold disappointment. i truly think the GEO is not being unreasonable in their demands, and i support them. but the only people that get hurt in a strike like this are the students.

good things about today:

1. bare knee weather. STILL!
2. first day of 100 crunches for 100 days.
3. lots of broccoli for lunch makes me feel strong.
4. reading tolstoy for homework.
5. COD MODERN WARFARE 2 AT MIDNIGHT OMFFMMFOOKMGOMGGOMFG. it could get br00tal i guess you could say.

guys, this book is tremendously good. because it’s...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:17:59 -0600

guys, this book is tremendously good.

because it’s interesting, and foer’s a kickin’ storyteller. he makes me feel. it doesn’t feel motivated, or political. just thoughtful.

gilleeeann: The BFG by Quentin Blake

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:35:02 -0600

gilleeeann:

The BFG by Quentin Blake

walkwhilereading: Ernest Hemingway passport photo before he...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:33 -0600

walkwhilereading:

Ernest Hemingway passport photo before he became well Ernest Hemingway. 1920’s. [via]

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if it has to do with hemingway, bears, or german soldiers, i’m in. which means tonight has been my NIGHT on tumblr.