January 2012
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Back at school.
This past week I: flew into Boston to stay at my gal’s place. Stayed at her friend’s the first night because of snow. Cooked her dinner every night because it was fun, and in an effort to recompense for spewing all of my things all over her room and also eating her food, making her drag me everywhere, etc. Wore all of the layers (because holy crap cold). Went to NYC! Visited Gigi, saw...
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Today, like every day, is a really good day to... →
a beautiful and moving piece of writing.
As a female legislator, I often speak to groups of women — from Girl Scouts and...
– Michigan State Senator Gretchen Whitmer says sexism is rampant at the State Capitol | Michigan Radio (via mimitakestheleftturn)
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the thing about Reichenbach.
And I’m only posting about this once, I promise, probably going to stop checking twitter/tumblr after Sherlock!time tomorrow because I’m making my girlfriend watch it with me when I see her on Monday(!)
I’m conflicted. This is such a beautiful series, so of course I’d like to see it continue, but on the other hand, Moffat and Gatiss are such Arthur Conan Doyle fanboys...
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humansometimes:
I cannot look at this and not laugh. Win.
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psychologically speaking: "Relationships are not... →
psychotherapy:
(via Psychology Today’s recent cover story, “Are You With the Right Mate?”)
“…Romance itself seeds the eventual belief that we have chosen the wrong partner. The early stage of a relationship, most marked by intense attraction and infatuation, is in many ways akin to cocaine intoxication,…
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may or may not be so into mystrade I'm making...
IT’S A LOT OF FUN, OK, I FORGOT. ABOUT HOW MUCH FUN. THERE IS. IN FANDOM.
So in my mind female Lestrade is tough, possibly a rugby player, definitely slightly butch, but Mycroft is very female politician-y and put together in a pencil skirt sort of way. I love Mycroft rocking the three-piece suits but I can’t think of a working feminine version of that, really, that doesn’t make...
commie-pinko-liberal:
al-khowarizimi:
Rachel Maddow holds a baby.
Why this matters, I don’t know, but goddamnit she’s the greatest.
OH MY GOD. I can’t handle the overload of adorable.
Also, look! There’s a bunch of other behind the scenes New Hampshire videos too.
um um. um um um. Someone gave their baby to Rachel Maddow to hold. BABY. Awwwww rachel maddow.
@mombian, Dana Rudolf, Wellesley Alum, blog asks... →
wellesleyunderground:
Mitt Romney has been frequently quoting “America the Beautiful” in his speeches. What he may not know is that the song was written in 1893 by Wellesley College professor, poet, and social activist Katherine Lee Bates—who lived with and shared her life with another woman, fellow Wellesley professor Katherine Coman.
Lynn Sherr (Wellesley ’63) wrote about Bates in...
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