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[May. 21st, 2008|01:59 pm] |
"If the good Lord has intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates." -Willy Wonka
"Winning isn't everything. Losing is also a thing, as are eggs and bonnets and quilt and, I believe, red trucks." -McSweeney's
"If you can't handle me at my worst, you certainly don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn Monroe
"You will never be more beautiful or thin or happy than you are right now. I don't want to see you waste it." -Gossip Girl
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having." -V
"Assuming the planet rotates, I'll just procrastinate until I bump into my soul mate." -Gym Class Heroes
"Who needs men? We just need triumvirates and vibrators. Like, expensive ones." -Page
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you say what you've gotta say and say it hot." -D.H. Lawrence
P: Don't worry so much
C: I know. I try, but I'm not very good at it.
P: I know...that's why I'm here. To remind you.
"No one ever wants to have sex with me! Hankla, where's your ferret?" -Erin |
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[Apr. 4th, 2008|10:43 am] |
"I LOVE Duke! I love the gardens on the first few days of spring! I love Duke Basketball and Jon Scheyer! I love Awaaz! I love the Chapel when it is all lit up at night! I love East Campus and Marketplace brunch! I love free water presentation movies! I love WISER! I love Alpine Bagels! I love LDOC! I love bin candy! I love the Pitchforks! I love Shooters! I love the refectory! I love my friends who I met freshman year! I love the main quad on West Campus, just throwing around a frisbee and chilling out! I love the song 'Don't Stop Believin' by Journey! I love fro yo! I love the Robertson Bus! I love Cameron Indoor! I love renting movies from Lilly! I love DUI! I loved the date week and the movie Love Actually! I love free beer on the quad! I love the Global Health Institute! I love the library party and Duke Royal! I love the Step Show every semester! I love all the money I get from Duke! I love Peter Feaver (in a 'that was the best class' sort of way)! I love the BC walkway/plaza and the millions of groups that are tabeling out there! I love the Ronald McDonald House! I love Stella by Starlight! I love the view from the top of the chapel! I love the tunnel with graffiti! I love the fact that I have met the love of my life here! I love the lemur center! I love the different Yoga and Pilate clases at Wilson! I love being an RA! I love doing 'work' in the common rooms! I love Duke." |
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| so apparently i am flunking out |
[Aug. 14th, 2007|09:34 am] |
Sunday, October 14: So You Think You Can Dance
Saturday, October 20: Sleeping With Giants Tour
Friday, October 26: Stars Concert
HOLY SHIT. I LOVE MY LIFE. |
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| summer books ii |
[Jul. 31st, 2007|06:41 am] |
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
"It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it." p. 52
"Sobriety is okay enough...but someday I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff." p. 73
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"Well here we are Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why." p.74
"How nice - to feel nothing and still get full credit for being alive" p. 100
(Ugh, I can't find the sheet that had all the others on it, now I'm upset)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
"I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I culdn't get myself to react. (I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.)" p. 6
"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them." p. 22
"The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no further." p. 46
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckonded and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila, and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, the plopped to the ground at my feet." p. 75
"When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line." p. 79
"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days." p. 90
"Lifting the pages of the book, I let them fan slowly by my eyes. Words, dimly familiar but twisted all awry, like faces in a funhouse mirror, fled past, leaving no impression on the glassy surface of my brain." p. 118
"I tried to think...but my mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung, like a bird, in the center of the empty air." p. 202
"'We'll act as if all this were a bad dream.' A bad dream. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream." p. 223 |
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| summer books i |
[Jun. 18th, 2007|09:51 pm] |
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
"They danced down the streets like dingledodies and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me."
"The only people who interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are made to live, mad to talk, mad to be save, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."
"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another until I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
"Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead."
"She was ransacking her mind for something to say, finding nothing in it but used Kleenex and costume jewelry."
"I think you'll find...that everybody does about the same amount of thinking. Scientists simply think about things in one way and other people think about things in others."
"When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything - and I advise you to do the same."
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
"My God - life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?"
1984 by George Orwell
"Perhaps a lunatic is simply a minority of one."
"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?"
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows."
"In moments of crisis one is never fighting an external enemy but always against one's own body."
"'How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.' 'Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.'"
(Also, p. 167 and 252 have stuff I forgot to write down before returning the book) |
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| DCBC: Homemade Ice Cream |
[Jan. 1st, 2000|07:54 am] |
Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream (6 Cups)
Start to Finish:
A delicious cool treat on a hot summer day. If you don't plan to use halved cherries immediately, toss them with a little lemon juice to help prevent their oxidation, or browning.
Rock Road Ice Cream (8 Serving)
Start to Finish: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Serve as a sundae in 4-inch wafer ice-cream cups with fudge topping, miniature chocolate pieces, chopped nuts, whipped cream, and a cherry on top.
Taffy Apple Ice Cream (16 Servings)
Start to Finish: 4 hours, 45 minutes
Granny Smith or other tart apples work best in this flavorful ice cream.
Honey Crunch Ice Cream (6 Servings)
Start to Finish: 5 hours, 15 minutes
Drizzle with a little caramel sauce for an even tastier treat.
Chocolate Malt Ice Cream (10 Servings)
Start to Finish: 5 hours, 35 minutes
Malted-milk powder and powdered nonfat dry milk add most of the body to this unbelievably creamy but low-fat ice cream. Stir in 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips or crushed chocolate wafer cookies for a chocolate-lover's delight.
There's more where these came from... |
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| DCBC: Recipies with Ice Cream |
[Jan. 1st, 2000|07:22 am] |
Confetti Ice Cream Pops (8 Servings)
Start to Finish:
Beneath the confetti-candy covering of these ice cream pops lies a marvelous surprise: a soft-in-the-center miniature candy bar on a Popsicle stick. Let kids help prepare these fanciful confections: Have them push sticks into the candy bars and finish the pops by giving them a full coating of the candy sprinkles. Perch the pops on a chilled cake stand to give them a longer life during serving.
Strawberry Ice Cream Soda (2 Servings)
Start to Finish: 15 minutes
Revisit your childhood while sipping one of these delicious treats on your front porch on a hot summer's night.
Pumpkin and Rum Raisin Ice Cream Cake (20 Servings)
Start to Finish: 30 minutes
We baked a gingersnap-cookie crust and filled it with a creamy pumpkin mixture, then swirled in rum-raisin ice cream. After one taste of this heavenly dessert, no one will believe it has only five ingredients.
Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream Cake (16 Servings)
Start to Finish: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Can be made up to three days ahead and frozen.
Chocolate Malt Ice Cream Sandwiches (10 Servings)
Start to Finish: 2 hours
Nothing conjures up childhood nostalgia like these frozen sandwiches - but forget the jangling bells on the ice cream truck and make your own for an even better treat. The ice cream needs to be firm enough to hold its shape before making the sandwiches. If it's too soft, let it chill in the freezer before assembling, but if it's too hard, let it sit out for a few minutes first.
See also: Chocolate Malt Ice Cream, Chocolate Refrigerator Cookies
Banana Split Shake (2 Servings)
Start to Finish: 15 minutes
We pulled out all the stops with this gooey concoction -- whipped cream, chopped nuts, and maraschino cherries -- then drizzled a little of the fudge sauce over the top.
There's more where these came from... |
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| DCBC: Vegetarian-Friendly Recipies |
[Jan. 1st, 2000|06:58 am] |
Vegetarian Reubens with Russian Dressing (2 Servings)
Start to Finish: 25 minutes
This exceptional sandwich originated at Penny Cluse Cafe in Burlington, Vermont. The spinach, mushroom and onion filling is so satisfying, you won't even miss the corned beef.
Vegetarian Hot Pot (5 Servings)
Start to Finish: 45 minutes
Quick to prepare, this Asian-style noodle soup has all the makings of a one-pot meal. To punch up the heat, add a dab of chile-garlic sauce.
French Omelet (1 Serving)
Start to Finish: 7 minutes
Omelets don't have to be tricky. Just follow some simple rules: use an 8- or 10-inch skillet with flared sides for each 2 eggs; heat butter in pan until it sizzles; cook over medium heat; and stop cooking when eggs are set but still shiny.
Asparagus Frittata (4 Servings)
Start to Finish: 25 minutes
The eggs are extended with cottage cheese for a slightly lower fat version of ordinary frittata.
Pasta with Garden Vegetables (4 Servings)
Start to Finish: 25 minutes
Two kinds of Italian cheese, Romano and provolone, combine with corkscrew macaroni and an array of fresh vegetables to create supper for four or side-dish servings for half a dozen.
Artichoke and Basil Hero (6 Servings)
Start to Finish: 30 minutes
Capers add a spark to the basil pesto on this sophisticated meatless sandwich.
Fresh Tomato Pizza with Pesto (8 Servings)
Start to Finish: 30 minutes
For best results, make this recipe when ripe, juicy summer tomatoes are at their peak.
Vegetable Quiches (6 Servings)
Start to Finish: 45 minutes
Using tortillas for the crust and fat-free egg product, reduced-fat cheese, and evaporated fat-free milk for the filling cuts the fat down to just 4 grams per serving. A traditional quiche has more than 20 grams of fat per serving.
Cheese Calzones (8 Servings)
Start to Finish: 1 hour, 5 minutes
Thanks to reduced-fat products, you can indulge in these cheese-stuffed Italian turnovers. Plan ahead and thaw the dough overnight in the refrigerator.
Zucchini Lasagna with Walnuts (6 Servings)
Start to Finish: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Ribbons of zucchini are layered with the traditional noodles, sauce, and cheese in this Italian specialty. |
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