When I was younger and watched Titanic I used to get so mad at Rose because she told Jack that she’ll never him go but right after that she let him go?
I like to think this is one of those universal frustrations, like the frustration one feels at the…
Or, in It Takes Two, how can they possibly be identical strangers!?
Vincenzo: Identical strangers? Holy mackerel, that’s amazing!
Amanda Lemmon: Yeah, and it’s weird, too!
When I was younger and watched Titanic I used to get so mad at Rose because she told Jack that she’ll never him go but right after that she let him go?
I like to think this is one of those universal frustrations, like the frustration one feels at the misunderstandings that lead to the plot lines on Full House. No Joey! DJ wasn’t drinking that beer at the school dance, she was taking it away from that other kid to show him how stupid he looked!
Putting off a twenty page theory paper by looking at everything ever posted on tumblr that has anything to do with “That Thing You Do.” Best idea i’ve had in a while.
The following things it is not: vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, diary free, all that healthy at all, full of beans (ihatebeans64@aol.com)
This is how you are required to make it.
Look in the Freezer, think ew, the freezer is disgusting and I wish i wasn’t out of FunNuggets
Get the ground turkey…
From the inventor of stomach bags.
How we do. Aka Queer Black Love is Realness!!! (James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry)
This scene is very reminiscent of a picture that was recently uncovered of my mother and her best friend dancing at some party in some living room in their 20s. Not sure if she is more Baldwin or Hansberry.
(Source: zyro75)
Been in the mitten for a few days now. I haven’t had to be in the cold weather for any extended period of time yet, so that may be influencing the way I feel about it. Which is to say that I’m really not minding the cold weather all that much. In fact, it’s been kind of comforting- familiar. Wishing I could find my mittens though ( re: the object not the state). They’ve gotta be somewhere in that hazard site I call a bedroom, they gotta. Or maybe it turns out that finding a mitten in the mitten would be too meta.
(Source: realriley)
“Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home. But again, I think I knew, at the very bottom of my heart, exactly what i was doing when i took the boat for France.”
-James Baldwin
Less than 24 hours left. about to spend it with my host family, in my first home in Thailand. and then what happens? I get on the plane that brought me here and here becomes somewhere else. So, I leave this six month experience sharing the same quote that I came with. Truthfully, I do not know exactly what I am doing getting on that plane tomorrow, but I anticipate returning to my life in America should be as much of an adventure as leaving ever was.
a short list of things I will miss:
sticky rice (duh)
all other food and eating at ran ahans/from street stalls
The soi, na maw, the mountains, bpai tiow yuh
cmu’s campus
the culture of taking care of each other and helping each other
Mae Sai, Pi Gift, and Pi Goo (and their childish antics)
Tinglish- ain’t that the jing jing. keet tung leow!
a short list of things I am excited to return to:
My mama at the airport
roadtripping to Amherst with Eroll to see Mike and have mad twin-ness together
everyone else i will be visiting with on my short tour through the mitten
sweaters
large curd cottage cheese
To quote a wonderful professor and friend, Ajaan Daniel, “by no means are these lists exhaustive,” but they give you a gist of where i’m at- somewhere between denial, pre-nostalgia and excitement. Here goes nothing.
