January 2012
45 posts
oh god I'm so awesome
Great day
Why do girls keep asking me out?
Perhaps the ultimate first world problem of mine.
I also think the girl situation now is kind of weird. I like her a lot, but we’re both really busy and we both have lots of other friends that we like to see.
I guess this is one that will require more work than normal, but I think I’d be willing to do that.
Watchclimateadaptation:
“Until recently, this area of southern Mongolia was one of the world’s last great wildernesses – a cold desert that is home to gazelle, wild ass and herders living a traditional nomadic existence.
Today, however, it is the centre of the planet’s greatest resource boom. Some are calling it “the last frontier”, others “Minegolia”. Whatever the name, this impoverished but...
“On date night if you don’t go home and have the nastiest, dirtiest sex of your...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via fuckyestonybourdain)
I can't screw things up with her
she’s just so awesome :/
“Former United States Vice President Dick Cheney, for example, reportedly...”
– ‘Feeling validated versus being correct’ (2009) by Hart et al.
People are motivated to defend their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors from challenges and therefore to selectively search for congenial information that confirm pre-existing views, and to avoid uncongenial information.
(via scipsy)
I think when a girl says that she wants to talk...
this is seldom good :/
:D
family <3
Even more that religion, do I hate when people...
When people say that ‘everything happens for a reason,’ I want to grab them by the shoulder and yell at them, “Did the Rwandan genocide happen for a reason? Were the Tutsi systematically slaughtered by fate or destiny? Was the Holocaust and Rape of Nanking, where Japanese soldiers murdered, beat, and raped Chinese no more than children to the weakend elderly, were those part of...
Lost my wallet. Oh my god, seriously, between...
good thing that first world problems still aren’t real problems
I fucking hate my university right now
There are always worse things in life
It’s very hard for me to stay sad anymore
I'm a mess right now
I’m a wreck
So today I got written up for marijuana use on...
I took the fall for my friend who can’t get written up or he’ll probably be kicked out of his scholarship program, and I did it without a second notice.
I am just tired of being discriminated against because I choose to use a substance that is enjoyable, has little to no negative medical effects (actually having several positive, and most of all proven medical benefits), and one that...
In seven weeks, I will be in Haiti.
Damn. There’s a lot to do, a lot to get ready for.
The anti-intellectualism of the United States
is understandable given the history of this country and education’s place as a bastion of the upper classes usually. It’s also understandable given the country’s strong religious history with the Abrahamic religion Christianity, one of the world’s most anti-intellectual religions.
But come on, Republicans, you can’t just go around denying science! I mean, it’s...
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
– The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (via la-fatale
)
Congressman Paul Ryan comes out against SOPA... →
climateadaptation:
Not climate, but it’s important to know that writing and calling your congressman does work. I’ve written extensively here, here, and here that writing your representatives on environmental issues is in fact effective. This is a solid example with the SOPA bill. You have to participate. Voting is not enough.
A sustained campaign coordinated by redditors has evidently...
so in 2012
I will have an internship at the Peace Corps, working with video and photo editing as well as French and other administrative tasks.
I will be going to Haiti over spring break to see firsthand the effects of youth and women empowerment in international development.
I will be living in the beautiful city of Savannah, Georgia for the summer with one of my best friends. (possibly Henrique as well)
...
And yes! I can go to Senegal! :D
I love the south
Brunswick and Florida were awesome with the family, and then the past four days in Savannah have been some of the best of my life. No one had a better new years than I did, it’s just not possible.
Like what you study/do. Like your friends. Like the direction your life is going. Be happy. Lol, the meaning of life is not so elusive.
December 2011
39 posts
“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism
)
#firstworldproblems
the hard thing about people that don’t talk all that much is that their feelings can be hard to read. I usually can read people pretty well, but for some reason I can’t really tell what might be thought in this situation, though there are clues I suppose.
A must read piece by The Economist on Climate... →
climateadaptation:
“I find myself thinking about these things in particular with respect to climate change. Not long ago, Karl Smith at Modeled Behavior wrote a post arguing that global warming would likely have a number of nasty consequences, but that humanity’s best policy response is to plow forward in pursuit of economic growth, including through the aggressive development of fossil fuel...