January 2010
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When I Think
about how naive I was though never admitting it, how badly I chose early on spending my affections carelessly as spare change then making quick getaways igniting the bridges—or when I think of the time wasted brooding and stewing, my heart a sort of crock-pot simmering bitterness, it’s good to be grown-up at last with boxes of journals I’m unlikely to get back to and albums of photos as a very...
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“Login to Twitter. Login to Facebook. What you see is a world that you’ve...”
– Danah Boyd (via somethingchanged)
lessons learned
1. everything is tremendous
2. everything is fluid
3. better living through learning. work past the initial discomfort, ignore the ridicule (or fear of), ask questions and fill the gaps in your knowledge, embrace mistakes, to paraphrase ‘just motherflipping do it already’
4. the past really is a grotesque animal
5a. there’s only so much of your life you can broadcast via...
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Dear Internet
secondgradefresh:
Meeting your inhabitants IRL is pretty good.
It’s been 3/3 so far for me!
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Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - Home
Ah...
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We who are your closest friends
We who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting, as a group, to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift. your analyst is in on it, plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband; and we have pledged to disappoint you as long as you need...
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“When we think of the past, it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale