October 2011
1 post
"do me a solid" or whatever the kids say.
www.clickforkesem.org
and/or reblog?
This camp, a camp for the children of cancer patients, is where I’ve spent the past five summers as a counselor and it means everything in the world to me. Camp is free for all children because of the financial burden cancer places on families. We want to keep it that way. We’re within a few hundred votes of winning $125K and advancing to the next...
July 2011
2 posts
Last night, I had a dream that a surgeon asked me if I wanted to come along to a pediatric jujunem surgery (part of the small intestine). In the dream, I knew the surgeon was a big shot and that this was the opportunity of a lifetime. I asked him what it would be like, and he showed me a picture of macaroni and cheese. I went the fuck home.
April 2011
1 post
Project Happy Memory: Inspiration for Project... →
projecthappymemory:
The Shorter Version:
A few months ago, I was reading an article online about retrospective happiness. It explained that many of us experience happiness well after the fact, never realizing in the moment how happy and joyful we are. The article was good, but I don’t remember much beyond…
Hi guys! I just created this tumblr and sincerely hope you will follow, submit,...
December 2010
0 posts
Ain’t no sunshine —> Little Bit ‘O Rain —> Heart of Life
October 2010
3 posts
This song makes me happy.
sry
While making chocolate-covered raisin pancakes this morning (ahem, afternoon), I prematurely flipped and upon seeing the undercooked side, immediately said (in my head), “Sorry, that was none of my business.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
thanks pandora
Don’t Panic
You and I Both
In Your Atmosphere
September 2010
2 posts
This song helps me write.
August 2010
4 posts
Can we get a decent supper in the place!?
Today, my parents came to Boston and we went furniture shopping at Ikea, as it was Tax Free/Free Delivery weekend. We managed to scramble around and pick out every needed piece of furniture in two hours and I even tested out three thousand mattresses that were blackened with some combination (I’m sure) of mystery pathogens, sweat, dirt, and lice… all in the name of creating a new...
July 2010
1 post
I’m at the point in my life where I know it’s not a good idea to quit my day job, but I don’t even have one, so…
June 2010
2 posts
one forty plus: Twitter Isn't "Over", I'm Over It.... →
Last week in Los Angeles I participated in a live Q&A as part of an ASCAP expo on songwriting. When the topic of Twitter came up, I explained my waning interest in it being part of my daily life. By no means do I think it’s over as a medium altogether, but I do think that the days of “Twitter: The…
A few months ago, I happily read this post by the lovely John Mayer. Gone were the...
I am not lazy.
I keep fantasizing about packing via my computer. Each of the approximately 7 million items in my room could appear on my screen.* I could then choose to archive the items or drag them to the trash.**
*One at a time, as to not overwhelm me
**The items I drag to the trash will remain in my recycle bin indefinitely in case I ever need my Physics exams (to show to my children in order to prove my...
May 2010
2 posts
Common misconception in life: all problems must be solved before falling asleep.
Even though time and experience have taught us that all problems are still standing attention and ready to fuck with you when you get up in the morning ANYWAY.
I mean, has anyone ever said, “man oh man, I was having the worst day ever and then I went and got a good night’s rest, WHAT A FUCKING...
Just accidentally blasted very loud first 10 seconds of a youtube video to silent reading room. Friends around me ripped out their earphones and started to stand up…sudden movements which registered in my mind as “there must be a fire alarm!” So I took my own earphones out (which were…ooops…plugged into my iPod) and then laughed for five entire minutes.
February 2009
1 post
Professor: did you say "a black meer"?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Everyone know what a meer is?
Class: .....................
Another Student: Um, I thought she meant...a mirror?
Student: I did.
Professor: OH! HAHA I THOUGHT YOU MEANT MEER.
January 2009
6 posts
“You just totally flew off the handle there!”
– My Physics TA, to me, after I erratically added the sum of torques without considering horizontal and vertical components.
a lesson in class
Every time I stir milk into tea, I think back to the time I was working at the concession stand in high school. We were out of stirrers, so one man used a lighter from his pocket to stir his coffee.
“Except wouldn’t we just be perpetuating the stereotype that we’re...”
– Ari, on why we couldn’t fake ‘steal’ Will’s laptop, left unattended in the reading room.
waiting for the one bus in the frigid cold
Me: Kamber, come stand by me like a mother penguin.
Kamber: *waddles over*
Me: Tell me to stay away from polar bears.
Ugwechi and Christina, a day at the gym
Me: How much weight are those? 4.5 pounds each?
Ugwechi: . . . 45 pounds each.
October 2008
1 post
“Would you be willing to help me raise a baby?”
– Matt, in a text message Jeff read in my range of vision during a so-quiet-you-could-hear-a-pin-drop lecture on health policy this evening. (We almost had to leave, we were laughing so hard.)
February 2008
1 post
hai
oh hai.