Stream of Consciousness

ramblings of a college freshman sophomore junior senior. good coffee, good company, good design, good vibes.

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.................... hello

Imagine my surprise, logging in onto this old blog of mine for the first time in months to find a ton of notes on one of my posts and a bunch of new followers..

Well, hi. I'm not here anymore. I'm not at my previously mentioned alternative tumblr either; as a matter of fact, I've all but quit tumblr entirely. So feel free to unfollow me! I won't be updating this.

I have, however, recently started a photo blog to document a journey I made to Southeast Asia, and that I'll be updating. So if you want to find me, you can do so at wanderlois.tumblr.com :)

Okay? Awesome. Goodbye!

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whoa

I come back on here after almost a month to find that a quote I posted has 18000+ likes... Uh.

Anyways I'm not here anymore.

If you wanna find me I'll be at perfectionloop.tumblr.com

Goodbye!

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tumbleweed

I want to uproot whatever roots I planted, and move myself over to a different slab of concrete. Soak up the aura of an unusual environment. Submerge myself in the company of people not from Virginia. 

Everyone and everything is becoming too familiar. 

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"그렇게 우물쭈물하고 있지마. 신경질 나."

꽃은 울고있는 자기 모습을 어린 왕자에게 보이고 싶지 않았다. 그토록 자존심 강한 꽃이었다…

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참 정이 많았던 애가 언젠가 좀 차가워졌대.

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What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.

Voltaire, Candide

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Miyazaki you genius

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Late Night Alumni - Shine

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And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

Warsan Shire, For Women Who Are Difficult To Love

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Back in 2012, one of my New Year's resolutions was to read 20 books by the end of the year. I actually read 21 books that year, with one for good luck, and just in case anyone was wondering, I've listed them (in chronological order, too! though I doubt it really matters to anyone but me haha) here:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 2. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins 3. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins 4. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins 5. A River Sutra - Gita Mehta 6. Music for Chameleons - Truman Capote 7. The Help - Kathryn Stockett 8. Blue like Jazz - Donald Miller 9. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen 10. Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis 11. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 12. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 13. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 14. The Four Loves - C. S. Lewis 15. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 16. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami 17. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 18. The Stranger - Albert Camus 19. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 20. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 21. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkein

This has been sitting in my drafts collecting dust for a while now. If you would like a recommendation or anything just shoot me a message!

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With the Aeron, the effort to collect consumers’ first impressions failed for a slightly different reason: the people reporting their first impressions misinterpreted their own feelings. They said they hated it. But what they really meant was that the chair was so new and unusual that they weren’t used to it. The problem is that buried among the things that we hate is a class of products that are in that category only because they are weird. They make us nervous. They are sufficiently different that it takes us some time to understand that we actually like them.

Malcolm Gladwell, Blink

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Mindy Gledhill - Mi Ancla

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I miss the ocean.

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세상에서 가장 아름다운 이별 (2011)

I have never cried so hard during a movie before. Ever. Heartbreaking and eye-opening.

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Tuck & Patti - Time After Time

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"You break the stereotype."

... I love it.

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to the 'quiet guy'

It's funny. I catch myself trying a little harder around you. Trying a little harder to be a little more eloquent, trying a little harder to be a little less awkward, trying a little harder to be a little more.. interesting, because to me, you're so interesting - not in any ambiguous ways, but honestly I just really think you're an interesting person.  I doubt I'll see you again after these next few days, but for some reason I feel like that's how it should be. Hopefully we can run into each other in a hurry sometime in the future, throwing in a quick "hey!" as we head off to class or something. You won't ever know how much you've inspired me in the past few weeks... But our conversations have been like a breath of fresh air, and uncomfortable hasn't felt so comfortable in a long time.