June 2011
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small violins
i’ve been thinking of tfa for 6 months as just another thing for me to be the best at.
3 days in and i’m not sure i can even do it at all.
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So, I'm the only white person in my dorm suite for...
PARADISE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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How's this
for an insult:
Maybe your mother was right about you
after all.
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god~!
fuck every landlord in the entire city of Baltimore.
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“You’re not a land mine, you’re not a gold mine, no you’re not...”
– “Into the Dark,” Ben Lee
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“and in the twilight of the south, when fools are mistaken for men
their shadow...”
– Little Joy, “With Strangers”
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i know what can hurt me real bad, and what can’t hurt me anymore i am learning to rise up with the sun and i am learning what sleep good is for i thought i figured out the world and its circular way but then i saw the sun fall down out of the sky the other day
there was nothing in it but pain for me
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i am sick with worry today. my boyfriend woke me up an hour ago leaving for work and i haven’t been able to get back to sleep. i was supposed to go to a noah and the whale concert tonight, but no one can go with me so i think i’m going to skip it because it’s a late show and i don’t know if i want to be in that part of the city by myself in the middle of the night,...
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“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence....”
– Alison McGee (via creatingaquietmind)
Duhhh….. the silent treatment is the best.
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the people on B-More 2011 TFA facebook buddy chat are talking alternately about:
-establishing drinking partners
and
-football
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REPORT CARD: A
thevegetablelobby:
An A goes to the Baltimore City Public Schools for being the first in the nation to adopt Meatless Mondays! Baltimore is moving forward! Catch up to them by contacting your school district. Tell them you want Meatless Mondays in your schools! Follow us on Twitter and tell me what you’re having for Meatless Monday!
Check out the Meatless Monday site here!
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I feel like a douche putting this on FB, so...
This year, Teach For America’s talent pool was the most competitive ever: Nearly 48,000 individuals applied, and 11 percent were accepted.
http://www.teachforamerica.org/newsroom/documents/2011Corps_NationalRelease.htm
“It’s always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.”
-Michael Chabon
“They had to know Bin Laden was there. His million dollar compound was less than...”
– Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
Truth.
(via charmcityshinobi)
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I’m starting to get so excited about my move to Baltimore. Only 11 days! Let’s hope I find an apartment, fast.
In preparation for the move/recuperation after getting my wisdom teeth out yesterday, I’m watching The Wire and looking through lots of B-more themed tumblrs. I am so excited for the next chapter.
It feels like forever ago that I found out I got into TFA. I really...
“Because he says that love is kind.
That hasn’t been my experience,
so I set...”
– The Mountain Goats, The Doll Song (via spelunkerofgrapefruits)
““Have we really become so unsexy as a society that you don’t even get to...”
– BUST Magazine: Let’s all post our weiners (via stfuconservatives)
(via lostgrrrls)
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doing my teach for america pre-institute work is reminding me of when i was in 6th grade and my english and social students teachers decided i was under challenged and thus potentially self-destructive and made me do hours of extra work every day in an effort to exhaust my mental and academic superiority over my well meaning but dumb ass peers. you know, if it hadn’t been for those two...
“if you get there before me, will you save me a seat?
if you get there before...”
– The Mountain Goats, Shadow Song (via spelunkerofgrapefruits)
