January 2011
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One last thing
Remember all those times this past year, I’ve been like, “LOL English major-ing,” and then I don’t post any writing?
Blargh, me too.
Fiction or poetry. Daily. 2011.
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dyinginback replied to your post, A few of my favorite things in 2010*:
Technically ‘lednylon’ and ‘microself’ are both anagrams. But one’s an asshole and the other’s a cocksmash, if that helps.
If lednylon is an anagram for “lend only,” does that mean he’ll pay for the rest of my college? And graduate school?
LET ME KNOW ASAP, LEND ONLY!
edit: WHAT EVEN IS A COCKSMASH??!...
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A few of my favorite things in 2010*
*things not necessarily associated with the year 2010, but things I particularly enjoyed in this past year
Books and book-related:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
rediscovering how gorgeous the prose in The Great Gatsby is
finishing my last of all of Jhumpa Lahiri’s books
Movies and movie-related
The Social Network was easily the best movie I saw all year
Aaron...
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Those movies I saw this year
(including older movies I had not yet seen)
1. It’s Complicated (2009) 2. The Invention of Lying (2009)* 3. Leap Year (2010) 4. La Vie En Rose (2008)* 5. Valentine’s Day (2010) 6. Shutter Island (2010) 7. Alice in Wonderland (2010) 8. V for Vendetta (2006)* 9. Run Fatboy Run (2007) 10. Step Brothers (2008) 11. Rachel Getting Married (2008)* 12. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) 13. How to...
December 2010
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sierramarinara asked: I'M SO MAD AT MYSELF!! I should have come down to visit that first week after school, because my break was just a huge shitstorm after that.
I can't contain my excitement for the new year. 2011 better watch itself. ALSO FRAN! I got an actual Maze Ball for Christmas. I almost died when I opened it. It makes me think of you.
I can't contain my excitement for the new year. 2011 better watch itself. ALSO FRAN! I got an actual Maze Ball for Christmas. I almost died when I opened it. It makes me think of you.
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“And did you once see Shelley plain? as the poet saith. No, but I shore-God saw...”
– from the unpublished first draft of the first chapter of All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
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John Green does a reddit "ask me anything" post.... →
effyeahnerdfighters:
This is a very interesting read; he answers a ton of writing-related questions and such.
This is actually one of the best things I have read online all year.
sierramarinara asked: I'M SO MAD AT MYSELF!! I should have come down to visit that first week after school, because my break was just a huge shitstorm after that.
I can't contain my excitement for the new year. 2011 better watch itself. ALSO FRAN! I got an actual Maze Ball for Christmas. I almost died when I opened it. It makes me think of you.
I can't contain my excitement for the new year. 2011 better watch itself. ALSO FRAN! I got an actual Maze Ball for Christmas. I almost died when I opened it. It makes me think of you.
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Those books I read in 2010
1. The Story and Its Writer (ed. Charters) 2. The Things They Carried (O’Brien) 3. A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway) 4. The Women were Leaving the Men (Mozina) 5. American Salvage (Campbell) 6. Lolita (Nabokov) 7. Lost in the City (Jones) 8. “Waiting for Godot” (Beckett) 9. Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri) 10. The Green Mile (King) 11. The Life of Pi (Martel) 12. Origins of the...
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Last night while I was working at Caribou, I sat across from Tess, admiring her Macbook, and said quietly, “Mac envy.”
(My male housemates are under the assumption that all women always must have some form of penis envy, i.e. all girls secretly wish they were men. One time, Kate told everyone she had this reoccuring nightmare where she had a full beard, and Gino announced this was...
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A few of my favorite things in 2010*
*things not necessarily associated with the year 2010, but things I particularly enjoyed in this past year
Books and book-related:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
rediscovering how gorgeous the prose in The Great Gatsby is
finishing my last of all of Jhumpa Lahiri’s books
Movies and movie-related
The Social Network was easily the best movie I saw all year
Aaron...
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sleepyhead (stripped down version) — passion...
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A brief discourse on cold medication
I like my cough syrups as least syrupy as possible. I like a cough medicine that is the consistency of water, clear, and vaguely acidic-tasting. I’ve no patience for those yogurt-looking, thick, and actually syrupy medicines that come in a light pink and taste like “fruit punch.” I used to get really sick every October for about five years of my childhood, and I was always...
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When I make grievous grammar errors in my Tumblr posts that I don’t catch before I hit “Create post,” and then I find them minutes later, I want to curl up in a ball and die.
“How many people have read this and thought about how stupid I am?” I wonder aloud to myself. For the most part, I’ve totally over the phase where I really care if people think I am nice...
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Why have I bothered to own fountain pens if the...
THIS IS BULLSHIT
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Things I am scared to do on my laptop in public places:
Check Tumblr (sometimes)
Shop the Victoria’s Secret Semi-Annual Sale
Do any kind of online banking
Creep on people on Facebook
But really, I need to buy bras, and the crippling anxiety is really preventing me from doing that right now
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scenes from an italian restaurant — billy...
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Fever Difficulties
Things are I am incapable of doing with a fever:
Comprehending the Kennedy Center Honors
Building Lego. Have you ever even tried to build Lego with a fever? Suddenly you’ve spent 40 minutes of your life looking for these black and grey pieces, getting increasingly more stressed out because your Lego citizens will not have an Emporium at which to shop at this rate.
Play Angry Birds without...
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I am Fran's slow developing but certain sore...
FUCK OFF, IMMUNE SYSTEM.
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Asking Owen...
Owen: No, no, NO, someone ELSE threw up in the van.
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Upsetting post-midnight texts.
John: I heard you hate me. Understandable, but why did Owen bang my sister and throw up in my van while a sweaty dog watched?
Me: None of the above...?
John: Something happened in the van and I want to know what. My sister is being very stubborn and refuses to tell me what.
Me: I have a feeling Owen was not involved.
John: I'm pretty certain he wasn't, but we feel that this story explains everything while also being a complete fabrication.
Me: Are you drunk?
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Leaving my heart in London
Two years in retrospect.
So I went to London two years ago today. I gush about my trip to London a lot, and I think it makes me come off like a douchebag a lot of the time. I know I’m being a douchebag when I talk about Paris because I really only like Paris on a very shallow level. I want to clarify that when I gush about London, I don’t mean it in a “isn’t this so...
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Leaving my heart in London
Two years in retrospect.
So I went to London two years ago today. I gush about my trip to London a lot, and I think it makes me come off like a douchebag a lot of the time. I know I’m being a douchebag when I talk about Paris because I really only like Paris on a very shallow level. I want to clarify that when I gush about London, I don’t mean it in a “isn’t this so...
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“Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. Introverts like being...”
– Dr. Laurie Helgoe
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rich girl — hall & oates
Unrelated...
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Notable Oxford Alumni
Did I mention that time I went to IHSA state debate and came home emptyhanded? I am a state-qualifying arguing champ, bro.
Other notable [Cambridge] alumni include Hugh Laurie, that guy who played Lord Cutler Beckett, and Emma Thompson. Oh, and least I forget him, STEPHEN GODDAMN FRY. Your move, Sherlock.
Let’s make a list. Also my name is Fran. It’s in the title of my blog....
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Those movies I saw this year
(including older movies I had not yet seen)
1. It’s Complicated (2009) 2. The Invention of Lying (2009)* 3. Leap Year (2010) 4. La Vie En Rose (2008)* 5. Valentine’s Day (2010) 6. Shutter Island (2010) 7. Alice in Wonderland (2010) 8. V for Vendetta (2006)* 9. Run Fatboy Run (2007) 10. Step Brothers (2008) 11. Rachel Getting Married (2008)* 12. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) 13. How to...
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24. A book you wish more people would've read
Maybe it’s a common misconception that many people have not read The Grapes of Wrath, but aside from the people with whom I took AP English Language, I don’t personally know anyone else who has read this book. I think Of Mice and Men is the common Steinbeck book for high school students, and I’ve never actually taken the time to read it. Or The Pearl. And I feel like...
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wryan replied to your post, Snow in Oxford:
Cambridge is greater than Oxford. We have the *good* half of Monty Python.
Nice try. The mathematical equation of Monty Python actually goes like this:
Palin (OXFORD!!) > Idle > Chapman > CAMBRIDGE > John Cleese
AND NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE TERRY’S, GOOD DAY, SIR.
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WatchIn case you were curious about the progression of my Lego building. And my cripplingly social anxiety. Both are now available—in video form!
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23. A book you wanted to read for a long time but...
Almost like clockwork, Lord of the Flies makes it on my “to be read” list for every single break I’ve been on, and it seems to get pushed aside. Matt Damon is to Jimmy Kimmel as is Lord of the Flies to me.
I don’t know why I haven’t bothered to just sit down and read it yet. It’s neither long nor incredibly difficult. Survivalist novels are one of my favorite...
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Lethologica.
-noun
The inability to recall the correct word.
“What’s going on upstairs?” Michelle asked me.
For an hour of my cavern shift, there had been a brass choir playing upstairs in the chapel. “I don’t know,” I said, working at the computer. I thought of a funny answer, but the word escaped me. “New… king…”
“What?”
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teawithlennon asked: Hi, just wanted to wish you a happy holiday! <3
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christmas time is here — the vince guardaldi...