June 2011
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If anybody needs me, I will be under the covers trying to pretend the exam I took today was all just a terrible dream.
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Calculus Can Kiss My Angle-Side-Side
(So that joke really only works with geometry but it’s the only math joke I know. I’m sure my brother could come up with some much better ones.)
My parents and I are reliving those lovely days of high school where I came home in tears, apparently.
This was day three of calculus, and it was all I could do not to cry while riding my bike home. Monday was a review of everything about...
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Heat Wave
Two years ago, I still lived in Texas and would have been thrilled with the temperature being 91 degrees. Today, I’m dying. IT’S SO HOT!
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Two
There are two things I hate — mowing the lawn and math. There are two things I’m doing this summer — moving the lawn and taking a math course.
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He wrote, Everything will be OK.
I told him OK wasn’t enough.
Everything will be OK perfect.
I told him there was nothing left for a lie to protect.
Everything will be OK perfect. (pg. 178)
— from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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"Go the F*@k to Sleep, Daddy?" →
What’s funnier than the ‘Go the F*@k to Sleep’ book? A free download of Samuel L. Jackson reading it. Mostly because he introduces it by saying that he used to tell her daughter to “Go the F*@k to Sleep!” so much she would reply “Go the F*@k to Sleep, Daddy?”.
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“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You...”
– from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in...”
– President Eisenhower (via failbox)
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“Yet while the terrorist attacks of 2001 led us to transform the way we approach...”
– from Nicholas D. Kristof’s article in yesterday’s New York Times entitled “When Food Kills”
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“If the point of reading were simply to retain knowledge, it would probably be...”
– from Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
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This or That?
I can’t decide between the World Traveler mug and the Library Books mug.
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Confession
I have read a zillion and one books about the Holocaust, but I’ve never read Anne Frank’s diary.
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“I was trying to explain to my mom what exactly being a Resident Adviser means...”
– E, my Italian friend
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“Fake friends are like your shadow — they follow you in the sun, but leave...”
– Mila Kunis
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Recipe: Baked Spinach and Pea Risotto →
I’d like to make this sometime this summer.
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Deal
Made a deal with my dad tonight. For $1,500 and a trip to Europe, I will give up my “right” to a large, white wedding in a church and elope instead. My mom told me that she will be at my wedding. I don’t doubt that, but not quite sure if Daddy is going to stick to his end of the bargain.
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“My son is my son until he gets a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all of her...”
– from the original version of “Father of the Bride” released in 1950 and nominated for Best Picture
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“I can never tell what they’re chanting, but it always sounds like “sieg heil” to...”
– My sister, on the crowd at game 2 of the NBA Finals (via purplefireballs)
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“De Beers itself is treated almost as an organized crime operation in the United...”
– from Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stone by Greg Campbell
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“No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t...”
– Marilyn Monroe 