September 2011
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A chat among poor grad students
Me: Yeah, my astrologer said that being in a relationship would be really financially beneficial for me.
Friend: As long as he has a job I don't see how that wouldn't work out for you.
August 2011
21 posts
A Pep Talk for Fall
Oh boy! Tomorrow I start my first real day of Practicum in Tacoma and next week I start school. I am taking 4 classes on top of being in Tacoma 2 days/week and I also just accepted a TA position, in which I will be spending hours grading papers and meeting with students about their papers! I am going to be one busy ass lady. On top of all that, I may or may not be dating someone and I’m a...
WatchToo cute! And my favorite Aaliyah song!
zooeydeschanel:
Erin from Babycakes is really the cutest.
hellogiggles:
babycakes is the best baked goods for sure, but this just kills it.
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I just woke up as a 30 year old!
Once before I mentioned how much I hate advertising that’s geared towards women. You know, the razors and tampons? SO BAD. I find those ads very offensive. So I was thinking about how the ads could be better and I thought of a great tampon ad!
There’s three girls hanging out together and they are all synced up on their cycles and together they can do anything, you know, like really...
A Fashion Question
In the fall I start my first year of practicum in which I will be doing therapy with college students at a university. I have no idea how to dress!
I have problems with the word “professional” because to me that means boring and conforming. But, yes, I realize I shouldn’t be all hanging out or anything. In my mind I just want to look put together, but I don’t know what...
EEK! Summer is almost over and I only have a few...
What a whirlwind!
I thought I was going to be bored this summer! I wasn’t. I have been busy! With good things. In fact, I maybe haven’t even had enough “me” time because I’ve been accepting almost every invitation to eat out, see movies, go on day trips, whatever. I’ve been doing it all.
During the last week of July, I went to Mexico for a friends wedding...
Help me Help my friend!
Hello readers, my good friend Crystal asked me to post this because she needs help
getting participants for her dissertation examining grief following the loss of a
companion animal. If you or anyone you know fits the following criteria (either A or
B) and would be willing to take a short online survey, please email her for further
details. Thank you!
Group A)
You may qualify if you meet...
The best compliment I ever got
I have a new friend. He is funny and English isn’t his first language so sometimes I am left wondering what he really means. Yesterday he told me that I’m “unreal.” I was puzzled so I asked him how so. He said something like “you say everything you think without caring, like you live in a dream.”
I am not 100% sure he even meant it as a compliment, but...
July 2011
44 posts
This and That
My dad is sending me his juicer that he doesn’t use so I can do my juice cleanse! I am really excited because I think I really need this! I get a stomach ache almost every time after I eat and my energy has been so low and yeah…I am actually really excited. Not having health insurance makes you excited to try a juice cleanse to see if it cures your problems!
In the meantime, I am...
“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel (via blazingpoppies)
A Little Bit Inspired...
The other night I watched this movie called “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead” on Netflix watch instant. Essentially, it’s about a guy who is overweight and has a skin disease in which he breaks out in rashes all over his body for no apparent reason. So the guy decides to go on a 60 day juice fast. Juicing is great because you are getting massive quantities of micronutrients in an...
A Pep Talk to Myself or Anyone Who's Listening
This week I realized something about life. That is, none of us ever asked to be born and we shouldn’t have to suffer for someone else’s poor choices. Just try and make the best of it. Do what you want to do. Go to school if you want to go to school. Don’t worry about the loans it takes to live your dream. Live in Hawaii if you want to live in Hawaii. Remind yourself that...
I’ve been wondering about how I can make a little income by doing work from home or some kind of consulting work. Today I realized that there is a need for mental health professionals to learn how to conduct themselves online, ethically, be it through Twitter, their blog, whatever…Or maybe just a little help with their website and marketing/PR type stuff. I am actually pretty decent at...
New Obsession
What you’re looking at are 2 pieces of store bought angel food cake, with a layer of lemon curd (find it in the jam/jelly section), berries and a dallop of plain Greek yogurt.
SO GOOD. GO MAKE SOME!
Harold & Maude
Oh, I totally forgot about the soundtrack! It’s ALL Cat Stevens! And it effing ROCKS.
Harold & Maude
I have been meaning to watch Harold and Maude for like the last 7 years. I swear, it has been in my Netflix instant queue for that long. Last night I finally felt like watching and I cannot believe I waited so long. You know, they just don’t make movies like they used to! Harold and Maude is a love story and life story with thought provoking existential tones, starring Ruth Gordon (from...
“Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the...”
– Ronald Azuma
Watchthedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: First full trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place — AKA “that movie where Sean Penn dresses up like Robert Smith from The Cure.”
The film, which stars Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Harry Dean Stanton, David Byrne, and the aforementioned Penn as a former rock star turned Nazi hunter, is expected to have a limited North American release...
“Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist,...”
– Geneen Roth in her book Women, Food and God.
It’s seriously a good read whether you have food issues or not. And I’m not going to punish myself for resting today!
You'll do what you want.
dailypeptalk:
Pep Talk: Your life is meant to be enjoyed. If that means spending this entire day doing only your favorite things, so be it. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to today. Today remind yourself: I’ll do what I want.
Words to live by. The whole point of the max relax! I think today I’m doing just that!
Ideas for my 30th Birthday, which is on a Tuesday
Picnic at the rose garden at Woodland Park
Dinner at Via Tribunali (again) or the new Bar del Corso
Getting really high and going to a laser show
Sloe Gin Fizz and Manhattan drinking at the Rob Roy
More ideas?
Another symptom of getting older...
I’ve become lactose intolerant :(
“A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts...”
– Nietzsche
Apparently the guy liked to get moving and so do I. I go on a walk just about every day and besides my weekly gyrotonic, it’s been my only form of exercise lately. I like walking because it does focus me. It first clears my mind and then I get all sorts of thoughts/ideas worth...
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I have a “max relax” goal for the summer. That is to sleep until 10am at least once this summer! I feel like I might have been able to do that today since it was foggy this morning and the full sun wasn’t beating down in my room, but I woke up to pee at 7:30am and it was all over. I got back into bed and slept until about 8:30. Maybe it would be possible if I stayed out late one...
I almost can’t believe I was worried about being bored on my break. So far I have been busy every day and haven’t had enough max relax time! But that’s okay, I’m having fun and doing summer fun things like hiking, going to the lake and exploring. It hasn’t been total max relax but the most strenuous thing I’ve done so far is laundry.