January 2012
27 posts
If 2012 Oscar Posters Told the Truth →
“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– President Obama’s statement on the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via barackobama)
love the last line. well put.
transition
i feel as though i am surrounded by transition at this point in my life. perhaps its because i am 22, perhaps it is because i am a social worker in a transitional living setting, perhaps it is because everything in the world is changing and i can do little about it. some of the largest transitions of my life have happened in the past year. i graduated college. i moved across the country. i started...
Paula Deen’s Health Food Cookbook →
this is brilliant and hilarious in every way. i don’t know why the peanut butter and jellies made me lol.
meganamram:
Recently, Paula Deen has admitted that she’s had Type II Diabetes for years. Accordingly, she’s putting out a cookbook of healthy food. Here are some excerpts!
FRUIT SALAD
INGREDIENTS:
1 lb. bag of Skittles
3 cups ranch dressing
DIRECTIONS:
Mix well. Serve room...
How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics →
“What I see in front of my nose is a president whose character, record, and promise remain as grotesquely underappreciated now as they were absurdly hyped in 2008. And I feel confident that sooner rather than later, the American people will come to see his first term from the same calm, sane perspective. And decide to finish what they started.”
somehow sullivan found an intelligent...
Watchbarackobama:
President Obama to Betty White: Where’s your birth certificate?
so good.
inappropriate work talk
during case management with a client (who happens to identify as a lesbian), in a conversation regarding her new job:
me: so I heard you got a new job--that's awesome. what exactly will you be doing?
client: well, mainly just scanning documents for them and stuff. but the hours are great, so that's good.
co-worker, who is in the room: you'll probably see a lot of vaginas.
client: WHAT?
co-worker: yeah, that's part of what they do, scanning medical documents and stuff. i'm just saying.
client: euughhhhhhhhh dude. that's nasty.
co-worker: what? i thought you might be interested to know that.
client: no!! i don't like all vaginas, man! do you like every dick you see?
co-worker: .....yeah...well, most of them.
social work forever.
Watchmidwesternjessica:
- Thanks for tweeting this, Amy.
Saturday = “Chill broseph, I like mountain dew and big butts!” + Lana Del Rey
you’re welcome. i’m so excited for little dan to be hosting. so much awkwardness to ensure. i hope it is funny, for his sake and also for mine.
conversations with mary
mary: ok, so I'm thinking of ways to entertain myself and others. And I'm thinking I need to go on OkCupid/blind/internet dates but show up with a "fatal flaw."
me: YES. like what?
mary: like a cat dress. or scientology fervor.
me: intricate knowledge of middle earth culture.
mary: yes!
me: speak only in na'vi. stroke your chin diabolically throughout the entire meal.
mary: and stare
me: wear christmas sweaters year round.
mary: blink one eye at a time.
me: like slow but repetitive alternating winks.
mary: exactly.
me: the poor bastards won't know what hit them.
as of late
quite recently, i have received some of the most wild and crazy news and thoughts and ideas and such from friends all over. some of these were big and life-changing and have hit me like a ton of bricks, and others seem to be small, nestling, burrowing things that have settled in me like a seed where they continue to grow day by day and make me think of them more and more. it has been a season of...
December 2011
25 posts
2011
prepare for cliched end-of-year ramblings.
really though, i think i realized two days ago that new year’s day actually meant a new year. dumb, i know, but i think i just hadn’t been thinking of it that way. when you’re 22, you’ve been trained to think on a school calendar for your whole life, and thus the end of summer is always a strange form of new years. but when i...
this break
has been possibly some of the best time i’ve spent with my family. ever. christmas movies and singing seal songs with the siblings, eating eating eating yet somehow losing weight, bluegrass music and old eagles records, kitty snuggle time, dog snuggle time, mom+dad+amy dinners, baking up a storm, lazy time at the house, not getting entirely sick of crazy relatives, and enjoying hugging new...
eject: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
i love number 5. the idea of happiness as a choice is beautiful. number 3 also strikes a chord with my fear of confrontation.
Gingrich's message to gay Americans: Vote for... →
disgusting.
but….at least he’s honest? i dunno. i’m reaching here.
fit
sometimes when you move away, its hard to know where you fit anymore. and that’s not to be taken as some disparaging emo statement, its just that i’ve always had my place, at home in knoxville and in nashville. and i have one, still. i have a place in tennessee. it is home, and there will always be a place for me. i’m just unsure of where it is at the moment, because it has...
Watchamericasbestsarahdurham:
so freaking funny.
love all of the drunk histories, but for some reason the combination of Allan and Ryan Gosling here just kills me. so good.
Watchgiggles.
Hitchens: paying my dues →
conjectureandrefute:
I liked him. I once read his books approvingly, thinking he achieved much more than he actually did. Now I realize that most of his conclusions are at best plausibilities— certainly not Truths of the type he purported them to be as he rammed them down the throats of evangelicals. Do I respect him?…
well said, cameron. well freaking said.
i love looking back on what i said 6 months ago →
because sometimes we tell ourselves exactly what we need to hear, you know?
