February 2011
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Why My Digital Arts Prof Is Awesome...
Molly: Professor?
Brandon: Call me Brandon.
Molly: You know how you said we could maybe miss a class for once in a lifetime opportunities?
Brandon: Yes?
Molly: Rainn Wilson is lecturing next week.
Brandon: Go. Go. You don't need to listen to me. In fact, I think I might email everyone that class is canceled, and we can all go. I had no idea he was coming.
Molly: Thank you so much!
Brandon: There will probably be food too. Right? Let's all go.
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Week 1, Day 1.
25 minutes late to my first (45 minute) class because they changed the room number and put a wildly inaccurate sign on the door.
Free donut in Audio Techniques. Good class so far.
Playing Maslanka in Wind Symphony.
Free ticket to Gnomeo and Juliet in 3D on Saturday (lolwhat?).
I’m eating the only pear I salvaged from my January Harry & David’s shipment.
Now I have a box of...
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January 2011
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How To Make Everyone Hate You:
Leave fruit in the freezer.
Unplug the freezer and go home for two weeks.
Return to find that the fruit has rotted, liquefied, and molded all over the freezer.
Plug the freezer back in as if nothing has happened.
Put popsicles in the freezer to hide the molded and refrozen fruit.
When your roommates discover the awful smell and discuss how to clean it up, pretend to be concentrating very...
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Gisney.
Every single time I see the stylized Disney logo, I read it as Gisney. Like, today I went to Gisneyland and Downtown Gisney and all that. I’m fairly sure that I will never train myself to read the backwards G as a D, just like I may never learn to read “Yosemite” as “Yo-SEH-mih-tee” instead of “YO-seh-mite” as I did for the first seventeen or so years of...
“It’s not about you. It’s not about me. It’s about finding time for us when we’re...”
– Molls (the Tumblr one, not me)
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Of course
I end up at Disneyland within eighteen hours of my return to Chapman. We’re sitting at lunch trying to figure out something to do with our last day before spring term, and someone suggests Disneyland, and then we look pointedly at the guy with the car until he says yes. Pretty much the best way I could have transitioned back to college life. It rained a bit, which was nice, but especially...
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zachrifai:
swallowed in the sea - coldplay
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Blast Off!
See you in Disneyland in three weeks.
Unless you aren’t Stephen.
Goodbye, Oregon. I’ll make you proud. :)
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We Love You, Be Careful: In Which We Walk Around... →
If you live like this person’s grandmother lived, you will become a better person, allegedly. I don’t know, I think this article is funny and it made me smile while I ate my last grapefruit of the year (probably).
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So now we're dancing through the garden And what...
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Love Potion No. 9
I didn’t know what to order at Starbucks today, so this really adorable barista invented a new drink for me. It’s essentially a white mocha cinnamon soy chai and it was entirely improvised and it is the best drink of my life. He named it Love Potion No. 9 and only charged me $2.85 and I think I’m in love.
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46, 49, 52, 56
If I were at Chapman about to flight to Portland, I would have all the hours calculated out. How long until I board the plane, until the plane lands, until I see Stephen, until I see my dogs, etc. But now that I’m traveling the other way, it’s much safer to not think about any of it. It’s not that I’m devastated about leaving- in fact, I’m going to be quite relieved...
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Cause love’s such an old fashioned word. ...
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“I haven’t slept for ten days because that would be too long”
– Mitch Hedberg
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Huff-Post's State of the Union Drinking Game
[Crystalised (xx cover)- the Gorillaz]
I like...
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Waiting for my China Blue Special Noodles
and some other Asian-type dishes that I ordered to go, and the restaurant has two flat-screens showing two seperate Chinese acrobatic performances, and people are lifting and bending and balancing and swinging and contorting all over the place, and I think I’m supposed to be impressed but all I can think of is “I hope this is worth the years of time and impossible strain you are...
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The Karma Bum →
“When I think of yoga, all I can think of is disappointing Allen F’ing Ginsberg. Then I think it won’t be long before I’m the one passing kidney stones and urinating on children and all they’ll be able to write about is that they were peed on by a guy who wrote about being peed on by Allen Ginsberg—”
This is a quick story about Allen Ginsberg and yoga (obvs) and the Clash and...
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This song possesses some supernatural quality that...
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Be in full control of your ejaculation.
The best subject lines always hide in your spam filter. But what if they weren’t spam? What if I started sending people emails where the subject line was like “Spice up your SEXXX life!” and “Impress ladies w/ ur penis!” and “Lose 50 LB in 2 DAYS!” and “Cheap Replica Watches!” but the body of the email said like “Here’s my flight...
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“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With...”
– Carson McCullers (via sometimesagreatnotion)
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“If Stephen’s taking a break from music, you two could play Kingdom of...”
– My mother effectively summarizing my January.
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[Run My Mouth- Ra Ra Riot]
Guess who’s...
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zachrifai:
cee lo green - no one’s gonna love...
PS.
I know this whole emotional attachment to CV is all about identifying with where you grew up, feeling comfortable where you’ve spent a lot of time, fondly remembering the best moments while ignoring the worst, etc. I’m happy that I had a nice time in high school. That doesn’t mean I can’t have a nice time in college too. I’m just pleased with the way my visit went.
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Re: CV.
The problem with visiting my high school is that it wasn’t a problem. Everything felt correct: the parking lot, the lockers, the sweatshirts, the desk arrangements, the assignments written on whiteboards, the butcher paper signs in the hallways, the walk over the bridge to the photo room, the restlessness that begins five minutes before the bell rings. Dodging backpacks in the hallways,...
Today's Shopping List
Bananagrams
Circular knitting needles
Orange juice with lots of pulpy pulp
Push pins (4)
Round trip plane ticket (PDX to SNA) for President’s Day Weekend
Textbooks?
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David Yates is changing the plot of Harry Potter... →
“We wanted to change a bit where Snape dies. In the book, he dies on the Shrieking Shack, and we wanted to get him out from, not a conventional interior, but from that kind of box, to do it in a more dramatic atmosphere. We asked J.K. if she agreed for that to happen in there, because we hadn’t really seen it before. We made a crystal house, and you can see what happens in the boat...