Barking at Leaves

I spent all weekend avoiding goodbyes.

Now I’m home alone with them.

And I guess myself.

New Favorite Words

golgotha (GOL-gah-tha) n. a place or occasion of great suffering.

"Many grocery stores have only Orange Juice in the refrigerated section, while the other juices sit on an un-refrigerated shelf. What’s the deal with that? Why can’t the OJ sit on the shelf like every other juice?"

The Internet

Minutia

Is there a difference between writing an anthropology paper with ethnomusicological resources and writing an ethnomusicology paper with an anthropological perspective?

and if so, will the professor care?

"I saw Babe as a child, and it really affected me, so I don’t eat bacon or ham or anything."

Student

That Awkward Moment When…

you’re in line at the cash registers in the cafeteria, and it’s finally you’re turn, so you move up the line, and musical-cashier-guy is humming an old rock tune as he charges up your stuff one by one and drops them into a white plastic bag, which you take. There’s a brief quiet, in which you make some amicable eye-contact with attractive-cashier-guy. You’ve done this before. It lingers longer this time, and your deep stare into those friendly auburn his eyes is returned by pink lips cracking open into a wide, jovial smile. You’re so distracted by those glowing earth-colored worlds and ruggedly gentle demeanor that you don’t even notice that the fifteen-pound plastic bag stuffed with four Odwallae, three Cokes and two Borden’s milks starts cutting off the circulation in your left hand, which is now going numb, or that a theme park queue of starving hipsters is growing behind you. For a moment, you’re just kinda wordlessly lost in the ever-shifting potentiality of all the future lives you could spend with Apollonian-cashier-guy (the summers in Hungary, weeknights spent rewatching Arrested Development reruns on his couch, the unspeakably-kinky sex) until he expression kinda shifts, and his thick eyebrows raise themselves up in uncomfortable confusion when you realize you’ve been staring at him for a full minute when he politely reminds you that you haven’t paid yet, and he needs your Ham card.

His goose impression slays me.

(Source: captainblackmane)

Today’s Procrastination Ploy: Polish Tongue Twisters with Teenagers

New Favorite Words

bayard  (BAY-ard)  n.  1. bay colored. 2. proper name of the bay-colored magic steed given by Charlemagne to Renaud. 3. one blind to the light of knowledge, who has the self-confidence of ignorance.

Lost My Phone Again

That Nice Moment When…

you say something potentially awkward (on the internet), and it goes well.

Things That Sound Better In Your Head

“Neil Patrick Harris makes my panties wet.”

"I’m only partially joking. The rest of me is dead—"

A. Alex, Abridged

August Landmesser was best known for his appearance in a photograph (above) refusing to perform the Nazi salute for Hitler at the launch of the naval training vessel Horst Wessel on June 13, 1936. He had been a Nazi Party member from 1931 to 1935, but after meeting Jewish-born Irma Eckler, he had come to oppose Hitler’s regime. They married and had two children, Ingrid and Irene. Two years after the infamous photo, August Landmesser was found guilty for “dishonoring the race” under Nazi racial laws; the Gestapo indefinitely detained Irma. The children were funneled into an orphanage.