Well, just finished my third book in a week. I have a life. I go to classes. I do shit. And I read three books in a fucking week. I'm so proud, it's been a really long time since I've actually dropped other priorities to just chill and get lost in a book. I read Our Girl in Washington and it was thoroughly enjoyable. Sort of a mix of Dan Brown and ( Read more... )

WOW.

I just finished Rebecca. It was AWESOME. Seriously, excellent.

All from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier:
"We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us..."
"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.""I had ill-judged him, he was neither hard nor sardonic, he ( Read more... )

Don't let me down.

I've been reading a lot lately. I love reading. Honestly, I shouldn't be taking the time to do so, I should be doing things that I need to be doing. But this I something I want to do. Yeah. I'm doing what I want to do when I want to do it and feeling wonderful about it.

Read The Stranger by Camus. It was for class but I don' ( Read more... )

One of the other great lessons I learned taught to me by my friend and mentor, Maya Angelou and if you can get this, you can save yourself a lot of time. Wendy and I have had many discussions about this, particularly when it comes to men, although she has a very nice one right now. Remember this because this will happen many times in your life:

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Steve Jobs
"Find What You Love."
Commencement address at Stanford University - June 12, 2005
Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios.

( Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. )

Russell Baker
"10 Ways to Avoid Mucking Up the World Any Worse Than It Already Is."
Commencement address at Connecticut College - May 27, 1995

( 10 things to help you avoid making the world worse than it already is: )

No matter how hard we try we can't escape our karma. It follows us home. I guess we can't really complain about our karma. It's not an affair. It's not unexpected. It just...evens the score. And even when we're about to do something that we know will tempt karma to bite us in the ass...well, it goes without saying. We do it anyway.

"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success." - George Burton Adams ( Read more... )

"At the end of the day, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other is usually A LOAD OF BULL. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that ( Read more... )

I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all ( Read more... )