août 2011
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Lire la vidéoBritish Style Genius - Alexander McQueen
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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via sugarbeth)
This is exactly how I felt about this summer. I’m not excited to begin the school year and return to the dreadfully boring campus, but I hope that I can take what I learned this summer and continuously apply it to everything I do these...
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“I worked at it. I believe you have to make things happen. That thing [she puts...”
– Clémence Poésyon success (via theepitomeofquiet)
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doubt.
It’s hard to go from being extremely confident in yourself and your decisions one minute to being full of uncertainty and constantly second-guessing everything the next minute.
I have a plan A, plan B, and plan C and I hope to never ever have to come to plan C. I have just been constantly doubting myself and what I believe in lately and it’s making me lose focus on everything. I...
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objectifs pour le prochain semestre.
éviter tous comme la peste (sauf mon groupe d’amis immédiats et de quelques autres).
éviter les drames inutiles et folles, personnes souffrant d’insécurité.
concentrer sur moi-même et essayez de ne pas avoir une dépression nerveuse.
sorry if the french is off :)
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“Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream...”
– Sylvia Plath
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Why secondhand bookstores smell good
ledejeuner:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in...
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Lire la vidéoI have a confession - I LOVE Bones. And that look Booth gives Brennan at the end when he finds out that she is having his baby - beautiful.
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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
– Oscar Wilde (via thatkindofwoman)
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lockdown
My GRE is next Friday so I’m going to be on a study lockdown until then. If you need me, text, call or email :)
**Note: I actually put a lot of stuff on queue - so posts will show up randomly all the time.
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Nancy Wake →
…..In spite of such horrors, and in spite of such feats as bicycling over 500km in under 72 hours to find a radio operator, Captain Wake was having the time of her life. She was still only 26, a woman among 7,000 (mostly) admiring men, carrying out daily acts of derring-do and revelling in a job she had plainly been born for. Although she lived with the constant possibility of capture, it...
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