May 2012
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I’m so speechlessly grateful for validation. I run around pretending to be strong, pretending to be fearless because I’ve always thought that if I live the way I want to be, I’ll be those things someday.
I tell myself everyday that I deserve to be wherever I am. That I can do anything I want because I’m resourceful, smart, and persistent.
So when people see something in...
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“I am a hostage to my own humanity.”
– Reliant K, “Be My Escape”
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I’m not the only one who spends the last 10 minutes of work hiding in the bathroom, am I?
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Side note: omelettes are my favorite food and there’s never a time I don’t want one.
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I feel like everything’s moving really fast — which is funny because I’m always complaining that everything is moving too slow.
I don’t know about this being an adult business. I definitely need more money and I definitely am planning to ask for a raise and I have no idea how you go about doing that.
Fake it till you make it being applied at its finest over here,...
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“Screw top wine… We raised our daughter right.”
– My dad
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if it takes more than 3 seconds to load
me: the internets broken
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My dad just offered me any kind of puppy I want to get me to not move out. He says he’d go out tomorrow, buy it, and bring it home.
What is life.
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“I really wanna be responsible for getting you wasted on your birthday.”
– Ayaka. She knows how to sweet talk a girl.
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Songs that have been stuck in my head so far today:
Boyfriend
My Heart Will Go On
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“You’re like a dangerous squirrel in the night forest.”
– My best friend Adri Hui.
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I just spent the last hour curled up in a ball next to my dad on the couch crying, laughing, and talking about life and dumb things like Africa documentaries and politics. Sometimes you talk about dumb things because it takes your mind off of the hard things, like moving out. Because the fact that I won’t be with him every day literally slapped me in the face so hard that I just broke down....
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You know you’re a real feminist when Bukowski starts to get on your nerves because of the way he talks about women like all they are are cunts. Even when you used to love Bukowski. Sometimes he’s just a typical boy and I can’t decide whether to fault him for that or not.
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“Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment. To me, a...”
– Margaret Cho (via mackenziegracedonaldson)
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I would just like to state that everything Margaret Cho has ever uttered is perfect.
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“There is a dangerous myth going around this country that sexism doesn’t exist...”
– Margaret Cho, “Bitchfest” (via heroes-or-victims)
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“And I have a lot of self-esteem, which is amazing, because I’m probably somebody...”
– Margaret Cho, Notorious C.H.O. (via james-the-white-rabbit)
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I’m moving out of my parents house soon because my friends and I found out we got the place we wanted this morning.
It’s mostly exciting but I think the next few weeks are going to be the hardest because I know for a fact that my dad and I are going to be fighting.
We kind of just had a fight right now. And he says he needs some “time,” so he might go to Vegas.
This...
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“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could...”
– Federico Fellini
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My co-worker brought me chocolate and all I have to say is: it’s the little things sometimes.
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Things aren’t exactly working out lke I planned. But what else is new.
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Eating string cheese and pretzels while reading Bukowski on a Saturday night because I can.
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I had an idea for a book today and I remember thinking I need to write this down, but then as life always does, it distracts, and two cups of coffee and one car ride later I’m at work trying to stay awake when I remember that I had an idea — a potentially great idea, and now I can’t seem to remember where I placed it in my mind’s drawers.
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When I was like eight I wrote this song and I was so proud of it, but today I realized it was just some words to the tune of the Backstreet Boys’ “The One.”
Plagiarizing and pirating since grade three.
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In other news, I will be 21 in 30 days.
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I don't know if you guys know, but the new season...
I won’t bore you with the details, but all I’m going to say is one guy is a singer/songwriter from New York.
Did you hear my eyes roll? Because that’s how hard I rolled them. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve totally been there — ooh band boys, they’re so emotionally unavailable.
Please. It’s a horrible phase that I recommend skipping if you have the good...
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“You look so professional and perfect up there!”
– Another co-worker, upon seeing me at the reception desk
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while working the reception desk at work:
Me: It's so scary up here. The phone is always ringing.
Co-worker: Well you look great doing it, so that's what counts.
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Something that I always think about is what freedom really is.
I always think that I’m getting so close and then all of a sudden something snaps me back and I realize how far away it really is. That’s probably my least favorite feeling. It hurts worse than what I imagine heartbreak feels like, because to have something dangled in front of you, something you want more than anything, to...
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Me: Do you like me?
Brother: Not particularly.
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I’m sitting here in a waiting room reading a pep-talk I wrote myself when I was more clear-headed than I am now.
It’s actually really comforting. It starts: “Rachel, stop being a pussy.”
My alter-ego is a bright girl. She’s a go-getter, that one.
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I’m definitely not a religious person. I’m not even sure if I’m a spiritual person. But I always wear this necklace my grandma gave my mom to give to me when I was old enough — responsible enough not to lose it.
I wear it anytime I need to do something important. It’s the closest thing I have to a family heir loom. It’s the closest thing I have to a...
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“Congrats :) fucker :)”
– Jake, congratulating me on graduating and passing media law
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thisisarah asked: CONGGGRAAAATULLLAAATTIIOONNNSSSS! :D I CAN'T BELIEVE THE NEXT TIME THAT I SEE YOU, YOU'LL HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE!!!! EEEEEEEE!!!!!! :D