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» Poor grammar is like poor plating.
Poor grammar is like poor plating. (I may have watched Iron Chef recently…stay with me for a minute.)
Poor plating: You might have some good flavors and foods on the plate, but I have to dig through the food to find the good stuff. It doesn’t look good, and I’m not going to want to eat something that looks like trash. I’d rather walk down the street to the fast food chain where I know my food will at least look presentable.
Poor grammar: You may have some good ideas, but I can’t get to them without a lot of work. I get tired of trying to read your words in order to get to the root of what you’re trying to say. Your fragments and mixed up diction stop me from being a good reader. I’d rather turn on the TV where the content is clearly delivered.
“Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes. There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
(via idontwantrealism)
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Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You’ll thank yourself for it.
Jason Mraz (via creatingaquietmind)
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I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Dyana Valentine’s “I Am Not Sorry” at TEDxOjaiWomen
Three things that, I think, if we could eliminate the sorrys about the world would be a better place:
Let’s not be sorry for asking for what we want. If you want something, you want it….
Don’t be sorry about taking a risk; lean out over the precipice; I want some outlaws in this audience…
Don’t be sorry about saying “no.” If someone asks you a question, it is reasonable that there is more than one answer…question mark at the end of a sentence means there’s an alternative.
Also see this article on Gala Darling’s site about it!
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Freedom means not to be limited by one’s own nature
Journeys of a Sufi Musician, Kudsi Erguner
Biology Homework Makes Me Cry
Imagine the headlines––
Second-semester senior English major learns lesson the hard way: don’t take an intro bio class just because it would be so cool to read Gulliver’s Travels in a science class.
I promise that I’m actually a genius.
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Three quarters of the world belongs to those who dare.
On Feminism and Nationalism: Kartini’s Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar 1899-1903
2012 Musings
On New Year’s Eve, my friend Molly told me that she has started referring to working out as “writing a love letter to yourself” because “that’s what you’re doing; telling your body that you love it.” I like that.
At 4 o’clock this afternoon I picked up my sister who was coming home from a weekend trip to OSU with friends and she asked me why I was wearing high heels. I told her it was New Year’s Day and I had to look fancy.
I read this list from Gala Darling, check it out: 10 Fantastic Ways to Get Ready for 2012!
I’ve been thinking about the new year all day long, as most probably have and I’ve been journaling like crazy the most random things. I didn’t make resolutions, but I’ve made a lot of lists and things regarding how I want 2012 to go, goals I want to accomplish, and things I have to do to make them happen. Among them is a list of things I want to practice in 2012:
- unplugging from ALL things electronic (cell phone, iPod & Kindle included) - minimum 2 consecutive hours in a day (when I am NOT sleeping)
- budgeting & using cash rather than credit ($40 a month for eating out, $30 on thrift shopping, $150 for gas/toiletries/groceries; $20 alcohol; I know this seems small, but when I am at school it is plenty) - I used to do this and do it well, but I’ve gotten lazy lately.
- eat more salad, drink more tea, drink more water; eat less bread, drink less coffee, drink less alcohol, eat less milk chocolate; gomeatless as much as possible
- more pleasure reading - minimum 15 minutes per day
- more (free) writing - minimum 15 minutes per day
- more consistently writing love letters to myself - 4x per week, 1 hour per day
- afternoon walks to get sunlight & fresh air - minimum 15 minutes per day, rain/snow/hail/ice storm be damned
- be more aware of plastic pervading our lives & trying to reduce my contact/consumption/purchase of plastic products
- regularly scheduled de-cluttering sessions - possibly monthly, with the question in mind, “have I used/touched/wore/thought of this in the last six months?
- not letting things pile up: it’s amazing how little time and effort it takes to keep things clean/organized if you do something, like hang your jacket in the closet, as soon as you think of it/walk through your door.
- spend more time looking fancy - even if it doesn’t seem like there is much of an occasion for it
- driving in high heels (this is really hard!)
