February 2012
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I am nothing.
I have come to the conclusion that I am not special.
I have grown up knowing I was much quicker and smarter than many of my peers, my family, even. Because of this, I did not have to work much in school, which has hindered more than it has helped, presumably.
It is important when you go to college to understand that what makes you special is nothing special, and that you are but an average...
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“I’m a ghost haunting these halls.”
– Ingrid Michaelson
January 2012
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Letting friends go
When do you let your friends go?
Answer: If you have to ask yourself that, the answer should be evident.
Within the friend group I have established at my university, essentially my go-to friend group due to living proximity and being the same age and all, I have gathered “best friends.” One of these, who frequently calls me her best friend, I am ready to be done with. But why?
In...
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“The god who made wisdom also made us fools.”
– Tyler Lyle
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Thoughts: A Primate's Memoir: Book Review →
The Yeezy quote was timely for this post.
Highly recommend the book if interested in how research is or can be conducted, Africa, or primates. It’s not scientific or anything, and reads like a novel, because it is one.
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Here is my melodramatic review of the ending to Sapolsky’s acclaimed A Primate’s Memoir (spoiler alert). This was a text to my friend who had me read the...
December 2011
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“This shit is fucking ridiculous…fucking ridiculous.”
– Kanye West
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So Much Reading to Do, So Little Time
I started to tweet that, but then decided it’d be better as a title on Tumblr, that it may come off pretentious, that I couldn’t think of a clever quip to tie it together nor a hashtag to accompany, and that it would be a nice seg-way for me to make a post on Tumblr.
The semester has ended at a screeching pace and I am back home. The way finals week(s) went: I had exam all in one...
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“We’re all missing something.”
– Lightyear
November 2011
11 posts
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Breaking Myths
A myth I have always held to myself is that I am not smart, i.e. I am not good at school. This myth is dual-sided: I am smart, but not good at school and thus life, which would equal my intelligence low.
This myth has been held from my lack of study in school, little shortcomings here and there, and by having a relative with Huntington’s Disease, a degenerative brain disease my siblings...
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Thoughts: This May Surprise You →
Article I wrote for my other blog. Enjoy
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To read, but in fact I am not upset about this article – both in the animal rights and natural systems, nor do I think the entire thing is factual as being presented. With that said, saddle up for a strange twist and turn of an article/blog post. The first sentence will make sense, too, once you…
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“You bring me back. You show me I’m already home.”
– Bess Rogers
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**UPDATE:
Since I have been writing article-type spiels lately, I have started another blog. It is essentially the same as this one, only the new blog I can/will show to my friends, keeping this one more private. I am sorry for the inconvenience, however. If you wish to check it out, you can find it here. I have also had an “art” blog for a while, though have not updated it in ages it...
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“Nature […] is witless. It is not kind, not cruel, not red in tooth and...”
– Marlene Zuk, Sexual Selections
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“Darling, don’t turn away.”
– Allison Krauss
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Question to all my followers: Who are some of your heroes? Why?
I’d answer with a few I am currently wooing about.
Marc Bekoff, Professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a brilliant man and has done much for my future field of work, Ethology. He started Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with Jane Goodall, and is...
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“Dubium sapientiae initium.”
– (Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.)
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Reading List
At the risk of pretentious, I am posting a list of some texts that I want to read/will be reading soon, hopefully. I of course recommend them, as I am interested highly, and will preface this by saying currently I am an Animal Science major, concentrating in Biosciences (as opposed to Pre-Vet), and dual-minoring in Anthropology and Psychology with an aspiration to go into the field of...
October 2011
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Ode to the Dime
Dearest Dime, why have I beget you?
I pass you multiple times a day, and leave you be time and time again.
You’re lovely, radiant, and shiningly true.
Dearest Dime, I need you.
That time has come when I am scrounging around,
Looking and pondering and mulling about
To find me some money to end this drought.
Coke Zero I want - though vending machine replaced,
Dearest Dime, will you...
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“The plant strains its whole being in one single plan: to escape above ground...”
– Maurice Maeterlinck, The Intelligence of Flowers
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Thoughts.
I’ve noticed lately that I have not been enjoying the time I spend with my friends very much. Something to note, the ones I’m speaking of are my “go-to” friends here on campus. I came to school with no friend accompanying me, and through situations and past acquaintanceships, pulled together a group of friends that have really rather been a rock. They were not...
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“If I were to hazard a definition, one that we could use to examine animal...”
– Marc Bekoff, The Emotional Lives of Animals
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Get your shit together.
That is to say, get your shit together.
I’m highly intelligent, so I need my grades to reflect it. I can’t be going into the field I want to go in and continue with this shitty-ass study schedule I’m stuck in. I need to stop getting in my own way and just get shit done. Simple.
On a brighter note, I had an interview the other day. I go to a major university in the SEC, and we...
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“Maybe all this time we’ve been held down by the heavy weight of our own...”
– Bess Rogers
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Thoughts to Expand on Later
I have a grand network of friends, have no problems making friends, but it has always been “keeping” friends, though not in the strictest sense. By the end of the night, I’m always left feeling alone. Feeling a lack of a sense of validity. It could be my standards of whatever are too high, but I think there are other attributes here.
I think I am have such a large network, other...
September 2011
7 posts
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“This heart, it sinks like a stone. Just rip it all out and let it bleed all...”
– Lauren Zettler
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Analysis and Thought
I urge readers of this post to watch this video, “Portrait of Someone Like You,” by Casey Ford Alexander. Before doing so, however, watch the original video by Alexander to Adele’s song, “Someone Like You.” (He continues the story in a non-linear fashion with a similar video to “Turning Tables,” if you enjoyed this video and story.)
“To find...
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“I know I have a fickle heart and a bitterness and a wandering eye and a...”
– Adele
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1/4 way through this Fall Semester
I’ve been living in the library this last week. I’ve also had a strange, screwy week, full of drama and weird schedules, so the library is almost a refuge at this point.
To the moment I’ve spent all night up, most of it studying. Spent 5 hours doing chemistry today. Now I’m studying Archaeology for my exam at 11 am, it being 7:30 right now. Didn’t return to my room...
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“I need an anchor to hold me down.”
– Bess Rogers
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I apologize for jumping around without giving due updates on things, even though I say to expect lack of cohesion and structure with this blog. My friend’s jokingly say I have non-sequitur tourretes, as I jump around thoughts on ocassion.
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At the moment I’m in the library at my University, just like any other day of the week. The thing is, these last few weeks I’ve not gotten...
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“I won’t let you close enough to hurt me, no.”
– Adele
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Tomorrow I meet with the Hall Director of the residence hall I was caught drinking in on my dry campus.
To what I have heard, everyone has been sent to Judicial Affairs.
I’m scared I’ve fucked up.
I’m scared that now as I am starting to get my feet in the ground here at campus, I’ve fucked it all up.
I’m scared I’m not smart enough to be in school. Never...
August 2011
11 posts
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“Sometimes I go out by myself, and I look out across the water.”
– Amy Winehouse (via The Zutons)
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What a weekend.
I reiterate: what a weekend. I feel like I just relived my previous semester in a period of 5 days. Actually, let’s just update all over this shiz.
Tuesday my previous roommate invited me and some friends over for dinner at his apartment. I ran into a friend and collectively we decided to dress up supa fancy for this dinner, as the on-campus apartments that he lives in, that we all live in,...
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“Bottoms up.”
– Trey Songz
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Somber Evening, pt. 1
How pertinent is this post? As it about the consequences of drinking and my last few posts have been about me drinking..
After a night of casually drinking with some friends, my friend checks her phone to find several missed calls and a text, “Nate’s in the hospital. Alcohol poisoning.” This is from my friend’s roommate, with whom I am great friends with, as am I with her...
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“Who wants to be right as rain- it’s better when something is wrong.”
– Adele
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“It was your heart on the line. I really fucked it up this time. Didn’t my...”
– Mumford & Sons
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tumblrrr time
rdrunk tumblr timme you guys
so today was agood day
saw my old best friend oflast year and met his new roommate sthis yhear and went to this new resataurent off campus which was really nice and was fun. then fraternity was asked by assoc dean to sing alama mater at this commencing seremcony and we did and was fun but new bros came back from study abrado and cooool as hellllll for reals and make...
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Rant on Anthropomorphism
An embed code could not be found for this video, but this rant is on the following video, “Cat hugs baby kitten having nightmare:”
http://www.break.com/index/cat-hugs-baby-kitten-having-nightmare-2064155
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There are two ways to approach the title of this video:
“Cat hugs baby kitten having nightmare” automatically sums up the exact viewing of the video and the feelings...
July 2011
9 posts
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“It’s over my head. It’s too late to go back.”
– Lauren Zettler
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Lost my HOPE
In losing my HOPE scholarship, I lose $4,000 a year towards my tuition costs, which for those in college, you understand the gravity of this and how valuable that scholarship is.
I freaked the fuck out when I read it. Rather, my brain shot in a hundred thousand different directions. That’s the thing with college, and I’ll touch on this later, there are so many options and things to...
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“We could hold our breath and keep on wishin.’ We could take it for a ride.”
– Tyler Lyle
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Sharing Revisited
A follower left me a message in my ask box, and I felt a more appropriate response rather than replying to it in my blog or her ask box, is to put it up as a message to all. I want to say as a disclaimer that I appreciate every message, whether I post or respond to it, and as I tend to do it myself, “rambling on” or “babbling” is never an issue or bother so do not fear.
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“You don’t know how you let me down.”
– Lauren Zettler