May 2012
20 posts
Robert Reich: The Commencement Address That Won't... →
robertreich:
Members of the Class of 2012,
As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today.
You’re f*cked.
Well, not exactly. But you won’t have it easy.
First, you’re going to have a hell of a hard…
If one of the most well-liked profs on campus says college grads are fucked. then...
My mom will never fail to be a Kohl's shopper
Mom: When time you come home tomorrow?
Me: 7 pm
Mom: Okay. I finish at 5. I will bring Taro. We will go to Kohls. It's 30 percent off and I have $10 Kohls cash.
Me: hah. great -_-. wait but I do need like business clothes.
Mom: Perfect. If we spend $50.00 then we get another $10 Kohl's Cash.
Me: OMGGGG! no WAYYY KOHLS CASHHH!!!!!
Mom: Why do you hate Kohl's so much?
Me: really, you want this lecture again mom. you have been sucked into suburbia's corporate consumerism. but okay mom we'll go to your favorite store.
he's a pretty chiller dude. only met him for like...
So, when I found out that I was a candidate for this award, I immediately started freaking out. In part because it was such an incredible honor to even be considered, but mostly because I knew that if I won, I would have to stand here today and deliver a speech in front of 16,000 people … attempting to control both my voice … and my bladder. I had no idea what I could say that would be of interest...
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I will say, from my own belief and experience, that imagination thrives on...
– Wendell Berry
the ica tribe
rica and chika live somewhat parallel lives.
she’s the Filipina version and I’m the Japanese version.
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wow.
what a year. done with this school shit. but here I am still sending out a billion e-mails and setting up things for next.
#studentorganizingproblems.
berzerkenny: Student abandoned in DEA holding cell... →
berzerkenny:
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Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for five days without food or water, according to NBC San Diego.
“They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” he said. “I’m…
wtf. really is this what the DEA thinks is the war on drugs?
lungpeiling:
no question - cool animation!
Obama vs Romney. What a great... →
sickness plus papers
its always a combination of stress triggers. it can never just be one.
I put my body through such strains. wish I knew how to stop.
who just touches a boob anymore
– Jade Laity.
- haha. so true. college is such a game changer.
sighhh
youaregoodatthings:
I am good at not telling people Happy Birthday via facebook when it’s their birthday.
wish I wasn’t so good at this one.
hey sleepyhead, you coming to my Office Hours
uhh. Hi Professor, yeah I am. but I have a meeting at 6, and there’s a long line…
Well sit down anyways.
okay.
…. nervously wait to go inside while everyone waiting says, “damn, you’re the girl who falls asleep in a 600 person lecture hall and gets called out on it” Why do you sit so close?”
jump forward to real OH,
I apologize for falling...