January 2011
24 posts
“I brought my American passport today in case I die today. I want the American...”
– - Marwan Mossaad, 33, a graduate student of architecture with dual Egyptian-American citizenship.
“Investing is not rocket science! Anyone reading this book and following its...”
– Yet another ridiculous paragraph from my Personal Finance textbook. I could probably make a tumblr just for these quotes. And since when was “hang together” a phrase worth putting in quotation marks?
“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried...”
– David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I really really really really really like this.
Accomplishments of the day:
1. Officially made a SENIOR YEAR document folder on my computer. It’s about damn time.
2. Officially got my own email address for the Pioneer Library System of New York State. One step closer to career actualization, I’d say.
3. Went to Applebee’s at 11:30PM on a Friday with my roommate just to get dessert and margaritas. Screw actually “going out”.
WatchEverything Andrew Bird touches is gold.
Plus, The Voice Project is pretty much the humanitarian version of La Blogotheque, and works to help women in northern Uganda, which I of course love.
“When debts are so overbearing that life seems really bleak, many people consider...”
– Another gem from my Accounting textbook. The writing in this book is making my “life seem really bleak.”
“Saving is not glamorous; slow and steady wins the race.”
– Only in an Accounting textbook would a sentence like this be considered worthy of publishing.
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
– last line of Catcher in the Rye.
Last year was a hard year,
For such a long time.
...
IT CERTAINLY ISN'T A CHORE:
to welcome home two of my best friends who had been abroad all semester.
to spend Christmas surrounded by all five siblings, three generations of family on both my mom’s and dad’s sides, and a wood-burning fire.
to have a long overdue dinner date with someone I spent four months of my life sharing a 10x10 office with.
to somehow get a free train ride into New York, as well as free...
