Also, reading back over the last year of posts: I am SO much more eloquent when I'm "suffering". And I have a lot more to say. Guess I've been happy recently.

My chest and stomach ache with feelings and recent memories. I don't know that I've ever felt this way.

Something about being able to understand the German coming out of Hitler's mouth when watching old speech videos on youtube makes the whole thing more real and more scary. These aren't just words on a screen. I can hear and understand what emotion or emphasis he put on each word.
Just an arresting moment I had while browsing youtube.

Grad School: UPenn; Doctorate of Philosophy in Sociolinguistics; 5 years; $24,000 a year; almost no hope of financial aid beyond TA-ing ( Read more... )

Being in Madrid again is what I imagine it's like when you see an ex again after 2 years. But an ex that you totally loved and it was passionate and everything. It didn't work out because you were both in different places. And it won't work out this time because one of you is just passing through. Part of you is dying, decaying, because of the ( Read more... )

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This is why I am in love with language. I simply must go to grad school, and I simply must study linguistics. Fry sounds like he's being a wind-bag, but everything he says is spot on and perfect.

Is it bad if I kind of love iTunes Essentials' "Soccer Mom Chillout"? I clicked on it because I was appalled at the name. I hate the phrase "soccer mom". It's so short-changing and generalizing ( Read more... )

"Remember, when the gay community is granted personal freedoms, ours get taken away.
How?
Shhhh."
-Stephen Colbert

I miss gays.

Susan Freaking Boyle

I love Les Mis. "I Dreamed a Dream" is one of my fave Les Mis songs.
I cried. And because I had to pee, I almost peed myself. Seriously.

When Lady Gaga sings "Poker Face," I only hear, "Poke her face." And I only want to say, "Poke her? I hardly know her." But as with, "That's what she said," and "You'd like that wouldn't you?" it just doesn't work here ( Read more... )