August 2010
25 posts
french words with no english translation.
Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter: To make the most of or take advantage of.
Flâneur: As defined in the book Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals, it’s “the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any...
July 2010
30 posts
Day 18: A letter to someone you miss.
i think maybe you are the best dude i know. i just want to hang out and do puzzles and watch every episode of scrubs, in order, on dvd. you could make any activity or stupid chore fun, and you always had the greatest ideas for things for us to go do. it sucks that i never get to see you anymore and that we don’t get to talk much. right after we...
Day 15: What you would if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant.
i would die, most likely.
Didi: Stu, what are you doing? Stu: Making chocolate pudding. Didi: It’s four o’clock in the morning! Why on earth are you making chocolate pudding? Stu: Because I’ve lost control of my life.
- RUGRATS.
Day 14: Something you love about yourself.
no matter how mad or sad i am when i go to bed, i just don’t care anymore by the time i wake up in the morning.
Day 11: A letter to one of your exes.
hey man, i’m really happy to have you back in my life as one of my best friends again. you know probably better than most people that it’s nearly impossible for me to really get down to talking about my problems and really admit the extent how upset or stressed or mad i am about certain things. but i can always do that with you. i trust you...
Day 9: Your definition of love.
when someone else’s pain hurts you more than your own. when someone else’s happiness is more crucial than your own. no walls, no facades, just complete trust and understanding. what more can i say?
Day 8: Something you hate about yourself.
there’s plenty of things i want to change about myself. it’s a work in progress. but i think that the only thing i really can’t stand is how much i worry and how stressed i let myself get. i’m always worrying about something. i focus so much on whether or not the end result of something is going to be okay that it can make it...
Day 6: A song that makes you cry.
‘all my...
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Day 1: A recent photo of you & 5 interesting facts about yourself. Day 2: The meaning behind your Tumblr name. Day 3: A photo of you and your friends. Day 4: A photo of you and your family. Day 5: A photo of something you really hate. Day 6: A song that makes you cry. Day 7: Your crush. Day 8: Something you hate about yourself. Day 9: Your definition of love. Day 10: Your best friend....
“there’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. what is terrible is not death, but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. they don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. they shit them away. dumb fuckers. they concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. their minds...
mamihlapinatapai- a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
i’m not good at talking about all the things that need to be talked about. it just seems so exhausting. life has been kind of dull lately, but there’s always notable things to pull out of that. i will do this in list form, because i’m good at lists.
01. one of my great uncles died earlier this week. it’s sad, of course. but the hardest part of any death in the family...
