December 2009
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“No matter how high you climb, [the Old Man had told him], you never outgrow your...”
– from ‘The Bourne Deception’ - Eric Van Lustbader
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Howl Florence + The Machine (via willowsmarika)
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LAN parties, risotto cake, strangers on a plane
Rollicking hills, crisp air, a sense of water in the soil and earthing that has eluded me for the year, an obligatory family gathering slash weekly LAN party with the gang of boys I grew up with: I woke Boxing Day morning and knew I was home.
A surprising amount of people fly on Christmas day. The airport was packed! Three flights took off within 15 minutes of each other, all headed toward New...
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“Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch...”
– from “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Journal XII, March 2, 1859-November 30, 1859” - Henry David Thoreau
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Joyeux Noël à tout le monde
Guess what? It’s midnight!
Everything’s so silent - no ticking sounds, no tap noises. Just a quiet rush of air - the atoms bouncing off my ear drum — and the soft echo of my own pulse.
It’s finally the one day that makes the entire year worth it.
Merry Christmas! Blessings to all :)
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“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!”
– John Waters (via kari-shma)
A good point, crudely made. People who don’t own books worry me.
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Love's trembling emblems
Summer, 1863
Dear Friend— I think of you so wholly that I cannot resist to write again, to ask if you are safe? Danger is not at first, for then we are unconscious, but in the after, slower days. Do not try to be saved, but let redemption find you, as it certainly will. Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems. Your Scholar
-Emily Dickinson,...
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2 days until Christmas
Sigh. A hot, humid day. All the chocolate that people have given me to give to my parents/grandparents in New Zealand have probably melted (which makes me tempted to open the boxes and eat them. I woke up too late to prevent the mass destruction. Daylight had done its damage by then).
I was supposed to meet Padma at her office to get some articles off her for my literature review this summer but...
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Basic Space The Xx (via parasitologist)
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4 days until Christmas
I enrolled to vote with the AEC last week…
….again, as it turned out. I put in an online application with a hardcopy to be posted only to discover two days later when visiting Jing’s place that I’d actually enrolled the night I got my citizenship - only, I never got the confirmtion letter because by then I’d moved house and Jing forgot to forward mail to me.
I...
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“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different in the...”
– Freya Stark (via littlemiss)
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What I appreciate (4)
Mix-tapes.
I was going through my iTunes the other day and found all the CDs people made me when I left New Zealand.
I can’t believe they’re obsolete, I think they were the sweetest thing. Forget music sharing, make me a mix-tape anyday!
A brief and inaccurate history of the mix tape
Mix-tapes have evolved now of course in that 1) People don’t have casette players anymore...
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Times magazine top 10 medical breakthroughs, 2009 →
I’m not sure why mammography guidelines is at the top of their list when you look at the rest of the stuff on there. Maybe it’s numbered arbitarily. Anyway, see below:
1. New Mammography guidelines: Based on new calculations weighing the risks and benefits of routine screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s new recommendations advised women to begin routine...
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Love Song Sareden Wells
I wish I had someone to...
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“Well behaved women rarely make history.”
– Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma)
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Скорость from the film ‘Бумер 2’ (via...
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8 days until Christmas
It’s grey today, and humid. In the garden, the leaves are being tumbled by the tempid wind.
I couldn’t sleep last night for the heat. After switching sides of the bed a couple of times, I ended up lying on the floor. The window was open - I felt the turning of the heatwave when the air washing over my tummy became calming instead of warm and fell asleep there till dawn when, upon...
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“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– from ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’ - Alexandre Dumas (via blacklies)
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50 Ways To Leave Your Lover Paul Simon
I was...
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Sketchy Santas →
Whenever people talk about dodgy Santas, I think of the giant Santa figure built every year in my hometown of a winking, paedophile santa that beckons with his index finger. It stands several storeys tall at the Whitcoulls on Queen Street, Auckland.
We call him the Whitcoulls Santa for short. There’s even a facebook following.
This site takes the cake though.
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“Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos”
– from ‘XIV - Everyday You Play’ - Pablo Neruda
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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