March 2012
24 posts
Things that Tumblr Needs to Know:
Our director of accounting’s ringtone is currently “Call Me Maybe.”
3 tags
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning--Adrienne Rich
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips. The grammar turned and attacked me. Themes, written under duress. Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave: the experience of repetition as death the failure of criticism to locate the pain the poster in the bus that said: my bleeding is under control
A red plant in a...
2 tags
In which I pretend to be an adult:
I am currently writing my student assistant a letter of recommendation for a scholarship. Since when am I responsible enough to recommend someone for something? I currently have a bruise on my forehead because I hit my head while reaching back into my car to get my coffee this morning—after I had to stop at Dunkin Donuts for coffee and a bagel because I dropped my original bagel in parking...
1 tag
2 tags
New idea for a sociology study:
Lock the nursing professors who study “health care chaplaincy” and health care in “faith-based settings” in a room with the evolutionary biologists and see what happens.
“Actually, he’d be perfect for you! You guys should totally date....”
– It’s fun times around the office when your coworkers are all 15+ years older than you and married. Apparently, as you quickly approach spinsterhood (in their eyes, not mine) there are very few qualifications required of eligible bachelors.
1 tag
Our campus e-mail is down.
Oh, hi, tumblr. How are you? I can’t do any work!
1 tag
blace replied to your chat: It’s been one of those weeks. Is it happy hour yet?
So what’s the answer? Can she?….bring me a captain and ginger ale…..? Serious question.
Sadly, she’s not 21, so no. But 4:30 will bring many, many margaritas.
2 tags
“I am bringing you a shit hot mess from Dr. [Redacted]. I’m leaving now...”
– My favorite* professor’s admin assistant.
It's been one of those weeks. Is it happy hour...
Me: Alyssa [my student assistant] is making a coffee run. Do you want anything?
Boss: Unless she can bring me a captain and ginger ale, no.
1 tag
casual friday.
brklyn:
brother blake (asleep on my couch): is that what you’re wearing to work today? me (looking down at my outfit of flats, jeans, tshirt, cardigan, greasy bun, bangs that I’m already tired of pinned back): uh, yeah. it’s casual friday! brother blake: very casual apparently.
Today, when I walked into the office, my boss gave me the side eye and then said, “Oh, it must...
I’m only in my 20s, not ready to settle down. →
clairemiller86:
Excerpts from “I’m only in my 20s, not ready to settle down,” from Salon.com
“So it is a choice whether we follow our true path or not. We can choose to ignore what we know; we can refuse to pursue the truth about ourselves; we can follow a path that looks more conventional, that will please others, that will round out some proud narrative we have imagined for...
