March 2012
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“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they...”
– Orson Scott Card Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet
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4 Exceedingly Common Student Grammar Errors
This is what I would say to new students, to people who speak well but write poorly, or anyone who just wants to look intelligent on paper (because it’s fun). I give you: the top 4 easily preventable errors I see on students’ essays, and because that probably reflects real-life “common” writing practices, I give it to you in the hope that it enlightens and tickles. Also,...
February 2012
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Ode to Caffeine
Coffee drips while espresso shoots
and hot grounds grow damp
while people order and aprons flutter
an aroma fizzles the nostrils—
sweet and roasty says the side of the bag,
cold cream riding in the cup with no writing
and fifteen slow-ticking minutes mull by
while egg sandwiches crumble through lips,
until the first electric sizzle
confounds all the nervous brain
and caffeine takes...
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Social Media: Life as Art
Sometimes I think I take myself WAY too seriously… lol… But what else? What other perspective do I have and why not? It’s all for the taking anyway.
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
– Carl Jung (via idi0teque)
“Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than...”
– Barbara Marciniak (via nirvikalpa)
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Something I've Learned: Good Things Never Last
Good things never last, and I don’t want to ruin anything simply by being aware that things will end, but it’s pretty difficult not to at least think about it every once and a while. I’ve been very happy lately. I tell the customers I’m doing “very well” and wish them an “excellent evening.”
What the fuck? lol WHAT’S GOING ON?!
I’m...
“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet:...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (via itsfromabook)
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My drink rec for the day:
If you a) like sugar, b) think soy is magical (common sense, come on!), and c) can stand to order a drink without coffee, this is my recommendation for the day (or any day really when life is Just Too Hard):
Tall Soy Salted Caramel White Hot Chocolate, with extra salt and whipped cream (stirred).
You will question whether God himself is behind the bar making drinks, it is so scrumptious and...
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Camaraderie and its Results
I felt so much of the purest form of love today (friendship) at work. I don’t know what it is about getting along with amazing people, but it makes me grateful to be alive. I guess because I spend so much of my actual time at work, lol—knowing it’s going to be fun and doable gives me a lot of satisfaction. The whole thing is just exploding with potential. I hope we do end up...
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Best Barista Feelings
1. Pouring milk for a latte and realizing you steamed just exactly enough.
2. When a customer jokes with you and it’s actually funny.
3. Catching a cup that you knocked over before it hits the floor so that you don’t have to go get a new one and write it all over/remember all the specifications.
4. When you pull the mats and there’s no water underneath.
5. Having a customer...
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“Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget who you are, for surely the...”
– Tyrion Lannister George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
– Ambrose Bierce (via catsarepractical)
“Why does this guy come in at 7:30 every morning, cry for four hours, and then...”
– John Green describing what the baristas at Starbucks where he wrote The Fault in Our Stars must have thought of him. January 30, 2012 at Third Place Books. (via ashakensnowglobe)
*****
They probably tried really hard to make his drink perfect (I am so jealous of these unnamed baristas right now).
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There were cliches spoken
There were cliches spoken and
fairy words exchanged—
false, feathery words
and flighty winged touches,
but the meanest people have the shittiest lives.
There was romance and laughter,
there was passion in strides
but all I kept thinking was
why can’t I say what I’m thinking:
the meanest people have the shittiest lives.
He said, “I’m kind of an...
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Dear Fellow Introverts,
I feel like you’re probably the majority of tumblr users, anyway. Let’s be honest. We like anything that replaces social contact (see Sheldon Cooper for direct quote, but you already knew that).
I just want you to know: yeah, life is tough, but it isn’t that tough.
We have the advantage. You’re probably very smart. If not traditionally educated, I bet you have this...
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Ever feel like joyousness is just a lucky...
We’ve all had those moments. The really good ones—sometimes they involve intoxicants, sometimes not. They come on randomly, with some personal effort but mostly a lot of luck and other people. You feel like they could go on forever even though you know they’re extremely temporary. You’re driving in the car, and the night envelops the open road. You speed, but it’s...