January 2012
50 posts
“Overdeliver in your personal relationships. Give more than you get. Never find...”
– The Art of Non-Conformity » How to Be Awesome
“To be remarkable means:
* You’re interested in life as a series of...”
– Chris Guillebeau
agreyeyedgirl asked... [part 4]
183. Do you like to dance? Yes, but I have to feel very comfortable to dance in crowds/at parties.
189. A book you want to read/have recently read: I’m so keen to read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, and I’m currently reading Preincarnate by Shaun Micallef. It is delightful, intelligent nonsense.
195. If you could be any character, from any literary work, who would you choose...
agreyeyedgirl asked... [part 3]
74. What are your favourite books? This could go on for pages, so I’ll just list a few that come to mind immediately:
The Billabong Books by Mary Grant Bruce (childhood FAVOURITES)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (ditto)
anything by Rosemary Sutcliff (but especially The Eagle of the Ninth)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Bronze Bow by...
agreyeyedgirl asked...
46. Do you replay things that have happened in your head? Yes! Mostly dumb stuff I wish I’d never said. And awkward social interactions. Which are sometimes one and the same.
63. A quote you try to live by: “Wherever you are, be all there”. I can so often be living in the past or the future, but it’s really the now that makes the difference.
65. Weird things you do when...
agreyeyedgirl asked: 1, 3, 8, 37, 45, 46, 63, 65, 71, 73, 74, 79, 88, 91, 153, 183, 189, 195, 200, 208, 212, 213
1. Click REBLOG on something John Green posted.
2. Notice it has 3 notes.
3. Refresh page.
4. In the space of about three seconds, post has 88 notes.
APPARENTLY JOHN GREEN IS THE KING OF THE INTERNET.
ETA: And now in the hundreds.
HAY YOUSE GUISE
I don’t know if you know this, but I actually have a second tumblr which is less for reblogs and more for actual thoughts. It’s my little attempt to be more of a creator and less of a consumer when it comes to social media.
http://nebulize.tumblr.com
agreyeyedgirl replied to your post: Do you celebrate New Year’s Eve? How?
I do! I like to stay at home, make something tasty, and watch the Twilight Zone marathon. Often my friend Angela joins me—last year we made creme brulee. This year we wore party dresses and made pavlova!
This sounds well nigh fabulous.
will someone please come to my house and beat up...
plenilune:
yes of course that’s how it works
Then come kill mine. It’s been hanging around for three days now and my head is tired.
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So how was your old bud Ira?
Ah, Ira! He was SO GOOD. He was warm, charismatic, intelligent, humble, honest, and generous with his experience and talent. I expected him to be fun, but I didn’t expect him to also be so FUNNY.
He obviously put some serious planning into his show, mixing sound bites and music on his iPad as he went, pulling together what was essentially an amazing sermon on storytelling. I really felt...
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Do you celebrate New Year's Eve? How?
I do! It varies from year to year. Sometimes there’s a party; sometimes it’s just me and my famiy. Sometimes everyone goes to bed except me. I’ve done the whole hang-out-in-the-city-amongst-the-millions-waiting-for-the-fireworks thing and often that feels more lonely, more lost, than just being with a few special people to ring in the new year. This year, it was me, my parents,...
“Make your art your obsession. Fall in love with it. Experience withdrawal...”
– The Art of Non-Conformity » How to Write 300,000 Words In 1 Year
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of...”
– The Art of Non-Conformity » How to Write 300,000 Words In 1 Year
Jim Rohn
“If you want to write consistently and thoroughly, you must learn to make writing...”
– The Art of Non-Conformity » How to Write 300,000 Words In 1 Year
“Twilight, by Dr. Seuss
Jake likes a girl. Her name is Bella.
Bella likes a...”
– If Famous Writers Had Written Twilight…
BEST COMMENT EVER.
Can someone please recommend me films that are...
justonesyllable:
Because I’ll get over it, but I just need to be self-indulgent for a while in the face of discovering that I mean a lot less to someone than I thought.
(And I’m hesitant to watch the latest episode of Revenge in this state of mind.)
:( :( :( Dan in Real Life is always a winner. Enough subtle sad and enough subtle happy to make it not obnoxious either way. Also Adam is...
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Dear John Green,
You make being a “real author” look like the normal, unpretentious thing it ought to be. It is not a mystical world peopled by untouchables. It’s a real world with real people who can be dorky but write heartbreaking stuff, who talk about what really matters with as much ease as they talk about what doesn’t.
You write serious stuff but you don’t take yourself too...
“Life highlights life, it seems, and brings to light everything we are as well as...”
– danielle carey: Ready:
(my version of the new year blog post)
“but i still don’t like the way “blogging” has turned out. tumblr, most of all,...”
– sewindie.com | crafts, cooking, and vintage obsessing
— one of the reasons why I want to do more creating than consuming here at tumblr this year.
okay this is lame, but i just found that the beautiful top my mother gave me for christmas has a hole in it on the shoulder — a mysterious hole — and i’m disproportionately sad about it.
:(