September 2010
36 posts
Halloween costume idea needs your approval!
So I decided I’d like to go back to an animal theme costume, like I always did before high school.
I was thinkin a sea creature of some sort,
maybe a portuguese man of war,
but then I thought, How bout a sting ray?
Specfically, the sting ray that killed The Crocodile Hunter.
Yes, no, or other thoughts?
How did you get here?
Are you here because of football?
Are you here because of the parties?
Are you here because of the creative writing program?
Are you here because of the medical research facilities?
Are you here because you didn’t know what else to do?
Are you here because of your test scores?
Are you here because you’re white?
Are you here because you’re middle-class?
Are you here because you’re “college material”?
10355) I want a group of friends like in John Green's "Looking for Alaska." I'm longing for a Colonel and an Alaska, and I'm sick of being alone. I'm like Pudge before he went to Culver Creek. I want friends like Sam and Patrick from "Perks of Being a Wallflower"- I want those friends that could change my life, give me hope, and make me feel like I'm alive. That can make me feel that I can actually be myself and not have to hide who I really am. I want those friends that I can jump in a car with and go cruising for hours (almost like when everyone piled into Alaska's car, or when Charlie went out cruising with Sam and Patrick, standing up in the pickup truck's bed to feel like he was flying), laughing and singing terribly to songs on the radio. Why can't they all be real?
Dude, I do have friends like this. Win :)
Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language
postmodernisms | madmanwithabox | thecruelprofessor | dontcallmeacontra | catboyfunk | tamburina:
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Pochemuchka: (Russian) A person who asks a lot of questions.
Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
WHY ARE THESE WORDS NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? ESPECIALLY THE FIRST ONE AND GHEEGLE.
The first one was in A Streetcar Named Desire!
