February 2012
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olderwhiskey:
Infinite sleepiness
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“How senseless to dread whatever lies before us when, night and day, the boats, strong as horses in the wind, come and go, bringing in the tiny infants and carrying away the bodies of the dead.”
Billy Collins
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This weekend means:
Getting coffee with a new friend
Studying chemistry till my brain falls out
Going to the TED event at Wake
Reading lots and lots of poetry
Reading Girl Trouble
Reading The Year of Magical Thinking
Making Mother’s Day cards
Doing research for my developmental term paper, which I’m really stoked about because I’m doing something involving...
Apr 05 5:24 PM Fields!: tell me about your life! Apr 05 5:24 PM tracy martin: gurl i think i’m going to major in psychology now Apr 05 5:24 PM Fields!: why? Apr 05 5:26 PM tracy martin: because the education classes look SO BORING
-me to Hallie on yahoo messenger after making a major life decision a few weeks before we signed up for classes. My decision was obviously the...
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Attempting to stay up all night hour #1= a bubble...
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Hooray for good news
after a not-so-good day of walking miles and miles and miles to and from work because I forgot the ID badge that lets me into the med school!
Tonight when I was walking back from work, probably on mile #10, my mom called to tell me about a dentist appointment and out of nowhere said “oh yeah, my virus is undetectable in my blood” and even though I knew what it meant, I had to ask to...
Today in class my developmental psych teacher - who is really sweet until something makes him cranky - was complaining about his baldness, so I told him I liked his hair, which he still has on the sides of his head. To that he said “One of the best moments of my life was when my wife touched the top of my head and said ‘I like your head’… because ya know, you look in the...
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Tomorrow Hallie and I are taking the practice GRE and I don’t feel ready to go to grad school or take a GRE or look at math problems again and what if my pencils aren’t even number two and i don’t feel ready to leave North Carolina and have my parents further than 20 minutes away from me.
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THE WOMAN WHO HATES FROGS
In a teen club’s sweet, secret pact gone wrong, the girl was left in a closet to hold whatever was placed in her hand, no matter what. Survive this, and be one of us! Frog slipped from hand, hand to shoulder, shoulder to floor. The spike of her heeled shoe pierced the frog’s slick back through to its belly, spattered her bare calf. Thirty years later, the...
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I can’t remember a time when Down in...
Let these texts I sent to Hallie from work evidence the fact that going to a women’s college has diminished my (very poor to begin with) ability to function properly around boys:
1.He probably thinks I’m literally insane. When he came in I jumped out of the chair I was in and said DO YOU NEED THIS?! and he was like “no…..?”
2.But I mean it’s the only chair in...
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January 2012
71 posts
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“All respects to Heaven, I like it here.”