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February 2011

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I would like to go to Adult School to learn how to be an adult. → nanner.tumblr.com

notemily:

obliviousunction: obsessionful: taniada: mssswitch: lastsinglestanding: nanner: neonloneliness: alexandrahamilton: -bobella-:

Classes I would take:

Groceries 101

The US Postal Service: What the Fuck Is This Shit

Sleeping at Night and Not Like a Vampire

Getting Your Shit Together 251

Genius. Could we also add “Ironing: Why it’s the Worst” and “Employment 101”?

Contextual Applications of the Phrase ‘Deal With It’. 

Mailing Packages on Time: Why it Matters.

How to Clean a kitchen and maintain that cleanliness

Organization 101

Laundry: Where Does It Come From? Will It Ever End?

Deadlines: Why you should actually pay attention to them.

Cleanliness: The Importance of Being Able to See Your Floor

Time Management Skills, or Stop Spending So Much Goddamn Time on the Internet

Cooking: Using More Than the Microwave

Decisions: How to Make Them

So You’ve Got Money Now: Clear Rules of What to Do and What Not to Do With What Little Income You Possess

How to Go Out Into the Real World, Walk Amongst the People, and Behave Like a Functional Human Being Until You Get Back Home

It Is Okay to Cry and Other Things They Don’t Tell You Enough

The Big Secret: Nobody Else Knows What They’re Doing Either

How Not to Be a Racist/Sexist/Homophobic/Ableist/Transphobic/Etc Asshole (Prerequisite for Everything):

  • Checking Your Privilege
  • What to Do When Someone Calls You Out on Your Privilege
  • How Not to Treat People With Disabilities
  • Your Casual Remarks May Be Hurting Someone You Know
  • Contrary to What You May Have Heard, Fat People Are Human Beings Deserving of Dignity and Respect
  • Consent 101: Don’t Rape People
  • Consent 201: Yes Means Yes

(wait, maybe that’s just a class I wish EVERYBODY had to take) (including myself, I didn’t know a lot of this shit a few years ago)

Jury Duty: What “Reasonable Doubt” Actually Means

Moving: How to Do It Without Breaking Down in Tears

French Words Most People Know and How to Pronounce Them

Babies

Jan 31, 20111,692 notes

January 2011

26 posts

Play
Jan 29, 2011961,107 notes
“i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes”
—e. e. cummings (via yesyes)(via proustitute)
Jan 29, 2011943 notes

My off-and-on boyfriend and I are breaking up.  Again.

Still hurts just as much as it did the first time.  

I am making my relationships sound very dysfunctional now. (Why does ‘dysfunctional’ look like a fucked up way to spell a word?)

I hate it when people post things specifically to elicit sympathetic reactions. I hope this doesn’t seem like that.  I don’t want to be that person.  

I feel like shit.

Jan 29, 2011
Jan 28, 2011
“Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.” — Brian Weiss (via 117elevenseven)
Jan 27, 201190 notes
Jan 27, 2011526 notes
Just when things seem to be going well:

Reality punches you in the gut.  

Shit.

Jan 25, 2011
#super disappointment
Dear People on Tumblr,

When a song begins to play seconds after clicking onto your page, it scares the crap out of me.  

Love, 

     Me

Jan 21, 20113 notes
#auto-play music #scared #letter to those who tumbl
Just took a look at your photos, and lady you have killer eyes! <3

Awe! Thank you! <3

Jan 19, 2011
Grad School?

Hokay, so, I’m hoping (crossing fingers) to start Grad School in the Fall of 2012.  I’m trying to study for the GRE since I’d like to take it this summer, but every time I start I get a bit overwhelmed.  I’ve never been great at taking tests, so I’ve tried not to assign much importance to standardized tests.  I felt like the scores could never accurately reflect my ability, so I didn’t get really upset by them.  Just knowing that helped me to do better eventually because I became less nervous.  

But the GRE isn’t a test I can brush off.  This one is really important for my future.  I need some help with this one.  Does anyone have any suggestions or strategies for studying for this monstrous test?  Or just some test taking strategies?  

I’d like to take the test after August (they are apparently making some changes to the GRE which will take effect in August of this year), so I have some time to prepare.  I don’t want to fall into the trap of waiting until a month before the test to start studying.  I want to do well on this.  In this test, I want my ability to shine through.  I need this test to reflect my potential.  That may sound cocky…that’s not my intention.  I just really want to get better at this kind of stuff.  

I hate tests.

Jan 18, 20113 notes
#GRE #Test taking #Grad School #I hate tests
Jan 17, 20111,425 notes
that awkawrd moment when you start to reblog every single post that appears in front of you and you just can't stop.

solehaa:

image

Jan 15, 201139,360 notes
Jan 15, 2011
Reblogging

ALL I’ve been doing on here lately is reblogging.  I’ll get super motivated to write out a new post, and then I’ll get lazy/discouraged/impatient and delete it.  Is this what other people are doing?  

Just me?

I’m hoping to start posting more now that I’m done with school and the holiday busyness is over.  But I suppose we will see.

Jan 15, 20112 notes

Oh sure, he’s cute now, but he’s a biter.  

Just kidding, he’s still cute when he bites.  

Jan 15, 2011
Jan 9, 20111,331 notes
“I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.” —Natalie Portman (via thechocolatebrigade)
Jan 9, 20112,097 notes
“Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via elina-astra)
Jan 7, 2011181 notes
“My Dear One is mine as mirrors are lonely.
He kissed me awake, and no one was sorry;
The sun shone on sails, eyes, pebbles, anything,
And the high green hill sits always by the sea.”
—Miranda’s Song, W. H. Auden (via sketchofthepast)
Jan 7, 201169 notes
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