May 2013
4 posts
“‘And for what, for what, no matter what you do it will never amount to anything...”
– Cloud Atlas (via talean-bean)
trying desperately to stop myself thinking exams don’t matter, and to stop dwelling on things which should have been so much more important. exam in 2 and a half hours, this is certainly not an ideal disposition
reblogging myself because everything that applied...
thoughts are uncontrollably fluctuating between “this is fine, its going to be alright” to “oh my goodness i can not possibly do this what am i thinking”
April 2013
5 posts
finding out that my lab report word limit wasn’t 3,000 but instead 2,500. making my already problematic introduction of 1,500 words even more problematic. FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
“Well, from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary...”
– Oscar Wilde (The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray)
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy...”
– Oscar Wilde (via emilygardiner)
March 2013
13 posts
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via floatingmemories)
“I’m sorry that I’m both your umbrella and the rain.”
– Tablo (via floatingmemories)
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“the deserted auditorium was a haunting frame for its rainy landscapes of the old...”
– (an orison of sonmi~451) cloud atlas, david mitchell. sonmi~451 tells the archivist what it was like to watch ‘the ghastly ordeal of timothy cavendish’ in an old auditorium, centuries after it had been made
7 tags
spending the day writing about the biological underpinnings of orgasm and the brain circuitry associated with what makes males love breasts. what a great way to spend international women’s day!
1 tag
starting my research on oxytocin tonight. lots of work from helen fisher, TED articles, evo psychology text books and new scientist. it will be a lovely evening!
chantet:
Outro- M83
starting to read cloud atlas tonight instead of writing notes. i should have read it long ago
February 2013
21 posts
I told you to be patient I told you to be fine I told you to be balanced I told you to be kind In the morning I’ll be with you But it will be a different kind I’ll be holding all the tickets And you’ll be owning all the fines
soloandchewey:
The Blues, Mary - Brian Fallon
“It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via 13neighbors)
“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and...”
– Jamie Tworkowski (via floatingmemories)
no1canstopus:
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not too long!
it takes me only 1 and a half stair way to heaven’s to drive to my dads!
2 tags
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not...”
– the sun also rises, hemmingway
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“oh darling, you will be good to me, wont you? because we are going to have a...”
– a farewell to arms, hemmingway
writing notes on psychopharmacology while listening to the cure and then meeting maddy for dinner and drinks later for the first time in 4 years where there isn’t a giant ocean between us :)
a letter to elise
3 tags
“This generation is responsible for handing on the world’s wildlife to the...”
– David Attenborough
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oh my goodness google looks wonderful today!
what an inspirational woman :)
3 tags
Girls will like science if it involves tie-dying,...
i can’t even words. i’m going to to leave this here
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...”
– Sigmund Freud
(via theriverjordyn)
January 2013
24 posts
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via yasodhara)
3 tags
November- Max Richter to the wonder (2013),...