A Taste of Honey

Come to see a little bit of my world.

Selecting a Reader

First, I would have her be beautiful,

and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,
her hair still damp at the neck
from washing it. She should be wearing
a raincoat, an old one, dirty
from not having money enough for the cleaners.
She will take out her glasses, and there
in the bookstore, she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,
“For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned.” And she will.

—Ted Kooser

(Source: crashinglybeautiful)

SMART.FUNNY.NICE

When I meet a person, I often plot their personality into a mental Venn diagram that I call SMART.FUNNY.NICE. We can all agree that the best people are the ones who display all three of these virtues, to a high degree, with great consistency. We can also all agree that the worst people are the ones who display none of these three virtues, to a high degree, with great consistency (“The disposition on that guy is really terrible.” “Yes, and so much of it too.”)

But here’s the rub: what’s the second-worst? No, but you have to choose. It’s so hard! Sometimes, when I just can’t pick, I generate synonyms for all of the permutations and am able to arrive at a temporary verdict. 


owlett: cheerpluslife: PLEASE REBLOG to show your LOVE AND SUPPORT for Norway and it’s people in this devastating time. 90 people confirmed dead, and the numbers are rising. Read more here. I am absolutely horror-struck by this news. They need all the support and prayers they can get. <3

owlett:

cheerpluslife:

PLEASE REBLOG to show your LOVE AND SUPPORT for Norway and it’s people in this devastating time. 90 people confirmed dead, and the numbers are rising. Read more here.

I am absolutely horror-struck by this news. They need all the support and prayers they can get. <3

One thing I like about study week: Saturday night at Uni edition

Aside from the mountain of assessment I am currently buried under, and avoiding at all costs, amongst the endless hours spent in the library and the various cans of red bulls, I am finally able to have a really good listen to albums at length. I believe that songs that you love the first listen are great, but they can tend to burn really bright and fade really quickly. I think it’s the songs that you hear a couple of times, the ones that you are barely listening to, the ones you eventually find yourself blending into the rhythm, until it feels like you’ve known it all your life, and it represented something important and significant to you a long time ago. Like a childhood friend, where it takes a couple of minutes to break into the in depth conversation you know you are capable of. These are the ones that when you’re flicking through shuffle, the ones that make you stop and you’re not sure why. I’ve come across a few of these this week. If I had an active last fm account this is what my most played songs for this week would read:

1/ Sprawl II- Arcade Fire

2/ Hard Believer- First Aid Kit

3/ Madder Red- Yeasayer

4/ Pixiphony- Kyu

5/ The Wild Hunt- The Tallest Man on Earth.

I can never figure out why I look at these long nights spent in the computer lab, with my eyes drooping, with secret fond memories. This has to be the reason. When I think of this period, there is always certain songs or artists that I associate it with. Lily Allen’s It’s not me, It’s you was first semester last year. And the soundtrack to the Boat that Rocked was second semester. The XX, Florence and the Machine and the new Kate Nash album was May this year. This semester, I am also finding Surfer Blood and refinding old Arcade Fire. And there’s so much more. Even as I finish this more and more are popping into my head. So now I’ve wasted a good 20 minutes of my Saturday night at uni, and it really is time to block Tumblr and start writing one of my two huge assignments.