Les Neigedens d’antan

“Because they’re better than horse chestnuts. When I couldn’t get crab apples, I used horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the shape doesn’t matter a bit.”


Thanks a lot, REM.

It’s depressing to dream about being depressed. In my latest dream, I met up with people from high school and recounted to them what was apparently my tumultuous freshman year of college: I failed a couple of major assignments, started transfer applications to nonexistent schools, and then realized that I wasn’t even motivated enough to finish those. Finally, some big event or other (I was trying remember what it was when I woke up) occurred and I soldiered on to graduate.

None of this happened in real life, but I did have a couple of semesters during which I felt as awful as I did during the dream-freshman-year. Not a nice reminder to wake up to.



“

— Oui, et arrivons au résultat. Te rappelles-tu Cromwell,
Planchet?

— J’en ai beaucoup ouï parler, monsieur.

— C’était un rude guerrier.

— Et un terrible mangeur, surtout.

— Comment cela?

— Oui, d’un seul coup il a avalé l’Angleterre.

— Eh bien! Planchet, le lendemain du jour où il avala
l’Angleterre, si quelqu’un eût avalé M. Cromwell?…

— Oh! monsieur, c’est un des premiers axiomes de mathématiques
que le contenant doit être plus grand que le contenu.

— Très bien!… Voilà notre affaire, Planchet.

— Mais M. Cromwell est mort, et son contenant maintenant, c’est
la tombe.

— Mon cher Planchet, je vois avec plaisir que non seulement tu es
devenu mathématicien, mais encore philosophe.

— Monsieur, dans mon commerce d’épicerie, j’utilise beaucoup de
papier imprimé; cela m’instruit.

 Alexandre Dumas (père), Le Vicomte de Bragelonne


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Everybody needs one in the morning (via Cynthia.Lou)



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photoholic: we could grow up together: ace Embarrassing fact: Until I was 16 or so, I had no idea how to loosen clothing-store hangers.

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we could grow up together: ace

Embarrassing fact: Until I was 16 or so, I had no idea how to loosen clothing-store hangers.


“ The way young people write English these days. It is absolutely a scandal. It is as if English is a foreign language. Do you want to hear some examples of American writing? ‘Intents and purposes’ someone writes as ‘intensive purposes.’ ‘Fallen by the wayside’ is ‘fallen by the waste side.’ ‘Next-door neighbor’ is ‘next-store neighbor.’ ‘Dog-eat-dog world’ is ‘doggy-dog world.’ Can you believe that? It is a mystery to me where they learn to write like that. Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev


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“ Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

Gil Stern (via amplequotes)

See, pessimists aren’t all bad.


My job.

Dream:

  1. Students give me TOEFL books for my birthday (or something? My birthday is in February). I go back and forth on whether I should sell them, but decide not to because one student threw in a Coach tote and wristlet with her book.

  2. My mom gives me a huge box of condoms while we’re at a bus stop. I tell her I don’t need them, but she presses them on me and gives weird instructions on how to clean then before use.

  3. I’m applying to undergrad again (NOOOOO). A few major Canadian universities have formed some sort of online application consortium. I leave my application until the last possible day. The first part of the app is a grammar test similar to the Writing section of the SAT, but it crashes when I try to use it.

Then I woke up and my father informed me that I had left the living room light and ceiling fan on all night. I’d stayed up marking TOEFL essays — I really wanted to get them over with — in front of the TV. See what happens?! I can’t explain 2, though.



Finest Kind

I finished reading MASH a few days ago. It’s remarkably like Catch-22, but with a more realistic level of crazy.



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Day 300.
Yaaay Day 300


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No joke, this is my all-time favourite Britney Spears song. Hearing it at the mall puts a smile on my face.



All I ever wanted was your life

I found my CD collection and was somewhat distressed to learn that I own three Linkin Park albums (including the remix one), two 98 Degrees albums, and Big Shiny Tunes 8. I’m not so much ashamed of that last one as surprised at having forgotten about it.

Post-Arrested Development, I can’t look at the band name “Gob” (who have a song on Big Shiny Tunes 8) without hearing Final Countdown. I also can’t watch TV without hearing it. Seriously mixed feelings about Telus using it in Irrelevantly Adorable Animal Commercial #4857301.