December 2011
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Heading out to Orlando to see my man for the day :)
I’m meeting his dad’s mom for the first time. Factoid: she used to be in the Black Panthers.
I’m not going to lie——I’m a little nervous! From everything I’ve heard she’s quite the character and a very intense woman. I really want to make a good impression and start things off right with her.
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Whoops.
My dad got me a Kindle Fire for Christmas, and it’s awesome. (I’m a die-hard paper book lover, and I’m still in love with it.) I guess it’s a little too awesome though…
Dad: “Katie, I see you downloaded 156 free books today.”
Me: “Errr…..how did you know?”
Dad: “I got an e-mail notification for every single one of them.”
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“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back...”
– Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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Luxuries are not the root of happiness, promise.
This Christmas I received a gift I never thought possible—-I got to spend it with a brother I never really knew until this year. It was our very first Christmas together. And because my mom moved back to Tampa, I got to see my dad, mom, and two of my brothers all in the same day. Words really can’t describe how much this Christmas meant to me. I haven’t felt this much like part...
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…consider that some infinities are larger than others. For example, there are more fractions than there are counting numbers, yet they are both infinite. Just a thought to delay your sleep this evening.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson - AMA on Reddit [via jtotheizzoe]
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That moment when you hear a high school freshman...
^My face was all of that and more.
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Just sent off my first letter to Madobi. I seriously cannot wait to hear back.
Odd, I have copious amounts of patience for everything else in life except hearing back about things or getting things in the mail.
Currently waiting on Winthrop-King scholarship announcements and Madobi’s letter.
Gosh I love that girl already :)
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My latest scheme to vote with my dollar.
I’ve resolved to buy the majority of gifts that I buy in the future from impovershed women around the world. For example, one Christmas gift I bought this year was a handpainted tote bag made by survivors of sex trafficking in Calcutta. There are many many organizations that sell a variety of products hand-made by impovershed women around the globe, and I really think this is a better way to...
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Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Abuse by... →
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“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it....”
– Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
“Junior high school students in Chicago were studying the Seven Wonders of the...”
– (Author Unknown - source)
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Shelfari has got to be one of my favorite websites...
I don’t even care if it’s a ploy by Amazon to get you to buy books from them.
www.shelfari.com
Start your bookcase and let me know when you have so I can follow it! :)
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An Appeal to Bibliophages and Literature Lovers
Finished reading the Hunger Games in a day (partly because I had to walk a few miles and sit with my defunct car until AAA came). Wasn’t expecting much more than an entertaining fantasy/sci-fi novel, but wanted to see what the hype was about and ended up being surprised by the thought-provoking and eye-opening allegory it contained about the disparity in wealth and power between countries of...
25 helpful things that I never thought to do. →
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A Christmas Edition of: That Awkward Moment...
My resident just texted me: “That awkward moment when Christmas Shoes is on the radio and then you come to a stop light and both you and the girl in the car next to you are crying…”
Hahahaha, I love my residents <3
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Une bonne après-midi...
Currently in the residence hall kitchen with 2 RAs, cooking up a Haitian recipe for legumes that we found in this old notebook of recpies handwritten in Haitian french. Couldn’t be more content :)
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Zee Avi is an incredible musician, singer, songwriter…It’s hard to fathom that she’s not famous yet. In conclusion: go Youtube her original songs :)