November 2011
15 posts
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October 2011
26 posts
My mom joked that my dad was jealous today over my getting her an early birthday present and not him one. I swear my dad is harder to shop for than my mom. Getting him something in a size small: “Too small! Get me a medium!” Getting him something in a medium: “Too small! Get me a large!” (Note that he is only a few inches taller than me.) But he looks so proud in his (size...
I know that dogs in costumes is borderline animal...
But they’re so cute.
-melts into a puddle of goo-
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)
“Sweet, gentle, insecure Dolci spent much care on his paintings, Baldinucci tells...”
– Philip Sohm, introduction to Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters
“Chinese believe by rewarding Chen Xianmei they’re encouraging more people to be...”
– Chen Xianmei’s tragedy
I finally declared my history of art double major with economics today, though it’ll be up to a month before the paperwork is finalized. I thought I’d be a mixture of “OHCRAP WHAT HAVE I DONE” and “THIS IS GONNA BE EPIC”, but I feel more calm than anything. It just feels right.
So weird to check out a book that was last checked...
Planet of the Plutocrats →
A look at why there is so much hysteria over the Wall Street protests.
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life with ease left a name worth...”
– (via heysaturdaysun)
Must I always have a plan?
Still don’t understand what my dad has against art history. Okay, so my employment chances after graduation plummeted just because I’m not a compsci or electrical engineering major, but we can’t all be making chips. Someone has to learn the past so it is not forgotten in the race to claim the future.
My parents sacrificed so much to make a better life for me. But I don’t...
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is...
“Until I was 30, I dated only boys. I’ll tell you why: Men scared the sh*t out of...”
– -The delightful Mindy Kaling (via jennabee)
OMG Mindy Kaling.
(via amcorm)
