June 2012
46 posts
My grandma is going to drive me insane
Ain’t memory loss grand? :(
Things I discovered today in Providence, Rhode...
1. There’s a fruit ninja arcade game
2. Arcades are nowhere near as fun as they used to be, because
a. there’s no good prizes you can get unless you get like a thousand tickets
b. the crappy 10 ticket prizes you used to get as a kid and get all excited about now seem like worthless junk
3. Cannolis are meh
4. All cities are basically the same
5. There are...
“There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour...”
– (via blood-and-beef)
Odd?
Sooo I’ve gotten to the point in my vegetarianism that when I see people eat meat it starts to feel a lot like cannibalism….ack.
“I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew...”
– Andy Warhol (via be-jealous-bitches)
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud...”
– Walden (pg 72)
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...”
– Walden (pg 67)
“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is...”
– Walden (pg 66)
Walden
Melissa’s Summer Reading Challenge
Book #1: Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” (illustrated edition! yay!)
Day #13 (6/2/12)
Pages Read: 75 (27.99% done)
Chapter 1 and 2: “Economy” and “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”
Favorite Quotes:
(Referring to students) “I mean they should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this...
San Francisco Bart train diversity
On a Bart train with a guy with a super long red beard, 2 guys with intense tattoos, a midget, 2 guys with turbans, 3 guys with diamond earrings, a gay teenage couple looking cute together, blacks, whites, Asians, giants fans, and a guy designing crazy complicated charts on a tiny computer. It’s a bad joke waiting to happen. Aint life grand. :)
