Full Credit For Being Alive

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Oh but I live in New York. We cannot agree with you more! You do live in New York, and this condition will make up half of your conversations. Did you know things are expensive in New York, and that it is busy, and people really enjoy discussing how intense everything is? Oh my god, that branding meeting? It was like THE FALLUJAH OF BRANDING MEETINGS. The actual Fallujah of branding meetings was in Fallujah. Please be quiet about New York. If we wanted to live in an expensive Habitrail for humans where we never saw the sun and spent half the time waiting in line for food, we would live in Hong Kong and bypass the freezing weather. If we wanted to be a hopeless narcissist and proclaim how awesome this was from the solitude of our apartment on Tumblr, we can now do this from anywhere on the planet. Literally, almost anywhere, and many anywhere far cheaper than New York.
Every Day Should Be Saturday, The Place Where You Are From Sucks

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Sex Ed.

A:
I went to a talk about life by the archbishop and now I feel badly for being on birth control.
Me:
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY? It is the smartest thing in the world that you can do for yourself. Unless you want a child with [guy she's been hooking up with].
A:
I guess the real point is, like, don't have sex with people you probably don't want to have a kid with.
Me:
Well that's just unrealistic.
A:
Yeah. I can't have a child with him anyway. We're not Facebook friends. Plus he's Protestant from Northern Ireland. The only thing worse than that is the British.
Me:
I think you are okay reserving judgment on whether to have a child with him until you are officially Facebook friends, religion aside.
A:
Thanks.

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Electric Twist - A Fine Frenzy

A Fine Frenzy, Electric Twist

I didn’t NOT chair-dance on the subway this morning when this song came on my iPhone. 

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Is it just me, or does Rick Santorum look just like a live action version of Woody from Toy Story that has a giant stick up his ass? 

Is it just me, or does Rick Santorum look just like a live action version of Woody from Toy Story that has a giant stick up his ass? 

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A file folder, a New Yorker, Louboutins, and a KC Royals hat.
Four things that say a lot about me, and that all happen to be in my purse today.

A file folder, a New Yorker, Louboutins, and a KC Royals hat.

Four things that say a lot about me, and that all happen to be in my purse today.

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Yesterday was National Peanut Butter Day? Whatever. Today is National Irish Coffee Day! So guess what’s in my seemingly comically large coffee cup? 

Well, it’s just coffee, sans Irish. But, you know, I’m thinking about having an Irish coffee, and since I just got over a stomach bug, that’s really all that counts. 

Yesterday was National Peanut Butter Day? Whatever. Today is National Irish Coffee Day! So guess what’s in my seemingly comically large coffee cup? 

Well, it’s just coffee, sans Irish. But, you know, I’m thinking about having an Irish coffee, and since I just got over a stomach bug, that’s really all that counts. 

Filed under GPOYW

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inothernews:

Deep Thoughts with Eric Cantor.

This is exactly the face that my little brother used to make when he was shitting into his diaper. 
Just saying. 

inothernews:

Deep Thoughts with Eric Cantor.

This is exactly the face that my little brother used to make when he was shitting into his diaper. 

Just saying. 

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I went for a five mile run this afternoon. I ran in twenty degree weather, on paths that weren’t entirely plowed, and on streets that were almost deserted. 
If you had told me ten years ago that, at age 29, I would be surfing, snowboarding, and running in the cold — for my own enjoyment, and not because anyone had a gun to my head — I would have thought you were crazy. And yet, here I am, doing all of these things that I never thought my clumsy, awkward, nonathletic body could do. 
I don’t know when I turned into this type of person. But I’m really happy that I did.  

I went for a five mile run this afternoon. I ran in twenty degree weather, on paths that weren’t entirely plowed, and on streets that were almost deserted. 

If you had told me ten years ago that, at age 29, I would be surfing, snowboarding, and running in the cold — for my own enjoyment, and not because anyone had a gun to my head — I would have thought you were crazy. And yet, here I am, doing all of these things that I never thought my clumsy, awkward, nonathletic body could do. 

I don’t know when I turned into this type of person. But I’m really happy that I did.  

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Serious Question

Is there a travel website where you can say “I don’t know where I want to go but I am leaving from this location and I have these days to travel and I want to spend this much money on my flight,” and then it gives you different destination options for your price range?

(If not, I am TOTALLY calling dibs on this idea for after I finish up with this whole lawyer thing.)

But for real, has anyone heard of anything like this?

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New York City's Killing Me

Ray LaMontagne, New York City’s Killing Me

Having one of these sorts of days today. Sorry, New York City, but you’re really pissing me off.

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umcanyounot asked: Would you rather be a lawyer or a professional surfer?

Hm. Good question! Well, since I am a logical and rational attorney, let’s do a little comparison: 

Occupational Hazards of Being a Lawyer

  • Inability to have any fun ever
  • Ruining your eyesight from staring at the computer nonstop
  • Getting a giant ass from sitting at your desk nonstop
  • Cancelling all of your plans at the last minute
  • Being forced to wear suits
  • Attending CLEs
  • Surrounding yourself with other lawyers
  • Having zero control over your own life
Occupational Hazards of Being a Surfer
  • Being stung by a jellyfish
  • Being eaten by a shark
  • Drowning
Yeah, I’m going to have to go with professional surfer on this one. 

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Just in case anyone out there thinks that I am a surfing natural (I know, I know, my surfing ability is all all anyone can think about these days), here are two pictures from my first lesson. I like how, in the second one, you can barely see my instructor’s head but you can still tell how annoyed he is. 

Filed under GPOYW

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I get what’s wrong with SOPA, but what’s everyone’s problem with Pippa? 
Original image so that I don’t get my blog shut down without due process via

I get what’s wrong with SOPA, but what’s everyone’s problem with Pippa? 

Original image so that I don’t get my blog shut down without due process via

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I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, ‘It’d be cool to have a traditional college experience,’” Deschanel, 32, explains. “Then I was like, ‘Oh, but none of these people understand what’s cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.’

my specialness is not appreciated in this place. 

MY SPECIALNESS IS NOT APPRECIATED IN THIS PLACE

(zooey on her experience at Northwestern via)

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORST

(Source: unicornfandancing)

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