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It’s a good thing I don’t like spinach, because if I did I’d...
– Ferdinand, Pierrot le Fou
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The Brain on Love →
“… But a loving touch is enough to change everything. James Coan, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia, conducted experiments in 2006 in which he gave an electric shock to the ankles of women in happy, committed relationships. Tests registered their anxiety before, and pain level during, the shocks. “Then they were shocked again, this time holding their loving...
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I am most of the way through spring break and I have concluded the following things:
Olympia is a wholly dissatisfying place for me
I can’t tell whether or not Seattle is home
While I miss my cat, she is, in fact, a cat
I still hate most things and am ambivalent about living
Once again, I have no plan for my future
Really this time, I want to start working out
I am...
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19 true things generals can't say in public about... →
Pakistan is now an enemy of the United States.
We don’t know why we are here, what we are fighting for, or how to know if we are winning.
The strategy is to fight, talk, and build. But we’re withdrawing the fighters, the Taliban won’t talk, and the builders are corrupt.
Karzai’s family is especially corrupt.
We want President Karzai gone but we don’t have a...
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
– Khalil Gibran
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And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor
– Edgar Allen Poe
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I just got back from this quarter’s final Arabic class, which is a stupidly delicious dinner the sweetest professor and his wife make at their home. We eat a shit-ton (in my case, two felafel sandwiches, ample hummous, and two pieces of baklava) and then talk about pop culture, punctuating with poorly-applied Arabic catchphrases. He does this at the end of every quarter!
I am a super...
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