May 2012
3 posts
td 5 boro bike tour
42 miles through the five boroughs of new york city. started in battery park, manhattan. up through financial district, 6th ave. to and through central park to the bronx, west towards queens. went down fdr, onto queensboro bridge at 59th., through long island city in queens. through verrazano bridge to staten island. festival at staten island, then took a ferry which such delays that overall, i...
"What Do I Do with My Life?"
The relevant question in looking at a job is not What will I do? but Who will I become? What belief system will you adopt, and what will take on heightened importance in your life? Because once you’re rooted in a particular system — whether it’s medicine, New York City, Microsoft, or a startup — it’s often agonizingly difficult to unravel yourself from its values,...
"I've Got Your Number" - Sophie Kinsella
alright, time to write.
i finished reading “i’ve got your number” by sophie kinsella today in a Subway sandwich stop in Williamsburg, BK. of course, at a Subway (i think i eat there three times a week) - but in the middle of BK? yes, as an unemployed woman (woman?!), i am doing a bit of exploring while i still have my residence conveniently located in manhattan.. anyway.
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April 2012
6 posts
The Flight from Conversation
There are so many great things mentioned in the NYTimes article that I recently finished. I actually started reading it two days ago, got through half and Tweeted it, yes, before finishing. I’m glad I came back to it though.. how frequently I bookmark and email articles to myself to read, only for them to be lost to my mind forever.
“Human relationships are rich; they’re messy and...
a shade of purple @ FIT
Last Wednesday, I visited the Museum @ FIT. The photograph above is actually not part of the museum; it’s part of a student exhibition on display near the entrance of the school.
The exhibition focused on colors and what each means, and students expressed their representation in a fashion sense. Purple, green, neon green, bright orange, fuschia, etc.
The shade of purple above (it...
“It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there...”
– unknown
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
I saw this movie yesterday with Janice at the IFC Center near Washington Square Park. It was Janice’s idea, as I hadn’t even known this movie existed. She said that she had come to know of this movie through friends and acquaintances, via Facebook.
I knew that this movie was about sushi. I knew that it was about an old man who made remarkable sushi in the bottom of a subway station...
The Morgan Library & Museum
yesterday i visited the morgan museum and library on 36th st. and madison ave. it was a relatively small museum and i was done in under three hours, and this was taking my time with to intake the beautiful artifacts.
pierpont morgan was one of the most established financiers of his day, which was in the early 1900s. he played a huge hand in shaping the i-banking industry in our country (do...
March 2012
7 posts
somerset
i had a wonderful weekend with my best friend from high school in somerset. i felt like a self that i hadn’t felt in quite a bit and i felt good. it was like good old days. old, old days.
[i had just written an entry and it deleted. thanks, technology!]
quick skinny: i hadn’t seen her since thanksgiving, though that time didn’t change us. rather, we had changed ourselves. our...
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay (via 36974)
“i don’t ask you to love me always like this,
but i ask you to remember....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via tallskinnyasian)
Lost for 1.5hrs: David Yurman Bangle
This title is a give-away.
But in any case, a week or so ago as I was getting ready for work, I looked to the spot on my desk where I keep my jewelry. On days that I’m wearing a shirt that my wrist can be seen, I wear my silver David Yurman bangle with turquoise stones at both ends. I picked it out for my 24th birthday and my mom bought it for me. On this particular day, the bangle was...
Ice Climbing @ Mt. Washington, NH
I went ice climbing - basic ice climbing - for the first time in my life this past weekend. I went with my sister, her 63-year old friend Rick (organizer for the MIT Outing Club), her friend Steve and her recently ex-roomie Chevi. This mountain also happened to be Mount Washington, which is part of the Presidential Range and it specifically is the highest mountain on the Northeastern Coast....
“Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude,...”
–
My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!
(via Letters of Note)
We like words too.
(via good)
I LOVE WORDS
(via conclusiveevidence)
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the...”
– Benjamin Franklin
February 2012
5 posts
“Free yourself from negative people. Spend time with nice people who are smart,...”
– Marc and Angel (via littlemiss)
“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange...”
– Plato (via blinksoflife)
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via girlwithoutwings)
“My life is my message.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via littlemiss)
January 2012
3 posts
“None of it compares to one night spent next to the warm body of someone you...”
– via: iwtfy (via kari-shma)
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...”
– Walt Whitman (via girlwithoutwings)
“The person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.”
– Jane Austen (via Swanfeather Songs)
December 2011
1 post
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your...”
– Frank Herbert (Dune Chronicles)
November 2011
9 posts
“you have a lot of magic in your eyes, cheeks & smile…they do special...”
– onician (okcupid)
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– E.E. Cummings (via thatkindofwoman)
“Don’t waste your heart.”
– The Strokes (via wrists)
“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
– Maria Edgeworth (via quote-book)
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be...”
– Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma)
“Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can’t own it, you can use it. You can...”
– The Time Traveler’s Wife (via quote-book)
October 2011
8 posts
“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one...”
– Sarah Bernhardt | via (via kari-shma)
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what...”
– Epicurus (via quote-book)
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love...”
– Maya Angelou (via girlwithoutwings)
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via girlwithoutwings)
Occupy Wall St.
Quick theories.
I’m for it. I didn’t know what they stood for when I visited them last Sunday with my photographer friend. He asked them questions and what they stood for. It didn’t cross my mind to do so, and in a way I was intimidated by their strength and clear confidence in their beliefs (some of which I didn’t see as justified, based on that they said, but that is...
“Sometimes, I think that we waste our words and we waste our moments and we don’t...”
– One Tree Hill (via 36974)
“It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the...”
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via kari-shma)
“…spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less...”
– The Breakfast Club (via kari-shma)
September 2011
3 posts
“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. The more...”
– Ethel Barrymore (via kari-shma)
“Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn’t.”
– Becca Fitzpatrick (via kari-shma)
An awesome Belgian recently told me, “Love isn’t felt. Love is vested.” Or something of that nature, from a popular song by the Editors.
August 2011
1 post
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the...”
– Benjamin Disraeli (via kari-shma)
July 2011
15 posts
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
– Andy Warhol (via girlwithoutwings)
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via kari-shma)