February 2012
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When you accidentally put "Communist Daughter" by...
I have never walked so quickly as when I realised, and I still got to the dock just after “semen stains the mountain tops”.
Let’s play good versus bad, shall we? The Good: I’m now finally home after a month travelling with my family in the US.
The Bad: We came back to discover that a week into our trip, our electricity went out in a storm and both the fridge and freezer are full of maggots. MAGGOTS.
The Good: We can claim up to $400 of loss of food from our contents insurance.
The Bad: My parents...
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Colbert: Your book Cell has a gay protagonist. Was that your attempt to show people how terrifying gay people are?
Stephen King: No the main character meets up with a guy who is, uh... a gay guy but it doesn't play a big part in the plot.
Colbert: Is he a murderer?
Stephen King: No, he is not a murderer, he's a nice guy
Colbert: Is he gay-marrying people? Is that what's terrifying?
Stephen King: No, he's actually helping people along their way.
Colbert: And then when he helps them, they have to feel better about gay people and that terrifies them.
Stephen King: They do have to feel better about gay people, but he's also, I think, a fine American who just happens to be...
Colbert: Terrifyingly gay.
Stephen King: A gay American...
Colbert: Terrorist.
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Hanklerfish hunting at the airport in Washington! No fishes or yeti’s, but I did find a purple J Scribble. It took a lot of self restraint to not buy that one… So I bought five other books instead.
ETA: This has been a very John Green holiday. Apart from seeing TFiOS everywhere, including three airports, a chemists and a supermarket, today we drove past a yellow “Waffle...
January 2012
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I sounds kind of lame, but at the moment I really genuinely love working at the bookshop.
First of all, because whenever I get a little bit bored alphabetising the entire fiction section, or replacing 70 sun-damaged stickers, I get to remind myself that no- I don’t get to be bored doing this. I spent six months looking for a job where I could be happy, and damn straight I am going to take...
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Remember when I did things other than not sleep...
NOPE ME NEITHER.
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Last night I dreamt I was the leader of an activist group, fighting against a new state law requiring all high school girls to wear dresses as uniform and banning schools from allowing girls to wear shorts or pants.
My winning debate strategies were these:
Making intelligent, well formed points that brought a tear to the eye of the watching audience about the systematic repression of women.
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Books 2012
Goal of 26, watch me fucking smash it. Priortisation like yeah.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives, Louisa May Alcott
Let It Snow, Maureen Johnson + John Green + Lauren Myracle
Will Grayson Will Grayson, John Green + David Levithan
Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson
The Truth of the Matter, Gough Whitlam
Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
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Books 2011
turveytops:
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, Oliver Sacks
The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell
Looking for Alaska, John Green
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
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December 2011
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help someone stop me pre-ordering a second copy of The Fault in Our Stars from the book depository, even though I’ve already ordered one from amazon, that will get to my house before we leave on holidays. I don’t wanna wait until February 23rd to get it grumble grumble grumble
ETA: Mwhahaha I forgot that I could cancel orders from amazon. Hello, book depository order for several...
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“…I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m part of it-tiny, to be sure, but...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
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There is 13 people at my family's Christmas Lunch.
This is not a good omen for things to come.