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Started my blog when I was 20, now I'm 25 😭 ! Perpetually lost but learning to enjoy it. http://instagram.com/soniakostova 

[just-shower-thoughts]

A college degree proves patience more than it shows intelligence

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

I believe in the kind of love that doesn’t demand me to prove my worth and sit in anxiety … Something that allows me to me without question.

Joey Palermo (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[glossdrop]

[soniavalentine]

Man it’s been a MINUTE since I’ve been on here. 25 now. Old bitch. 

Sup Tumblr?

[soniavalentine]

Other women in my grad cohort: Pregnant, taking care of babies/children, planning weddings, married, traveling, etc. Me: I can’t workout I just went to work all day  

[stability]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Fitbits are just like Tamagotchis, except the stupid little creature you have to keep alive is yourself.

[just-shower-thoughts]

The real Tide Pod Challenge is actually doing a load of laundry while suffering from crippling depression.

[just-shower-thoughts]

If someone is excited about something and you make them feel stupid for feeling excited about it, you are officially the worst type of person.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

Steve Maraboli (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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[soniavalentine]

Same

[unclefather]

i AM crying and so are YOU

[soniavalentine]

Saving this story for future me

When you’re desperate for trees and don’t have a plug in a new city ...

I text one of my ex’s bestie and ask him to ask his roommate for 🌲. He says ok we got it come thru. He mentions they’re just chillin and drinking. I make sure to ask if my ex is there. He says no. I come in expecting to say hi get my shit and dip . There he is... my ex. Shocked to see me too. I awkwardly hug everyone. Is this a fucking set up? Wtf ??? Man.

He pulls me aside and tells me he’s been thinking about me. And he’s missed me. And if I had fucked his best friend.

Wait .

Pause .

Come again?

Nonono. So his best friend never told him I was coming ? And he had made prior jokes that him and I had hooked up?

What kind of best friend is that? Tf?

What a wacky, confusing night. The other roommate also wanted us to play strip poker. I was like take me home Jesus 😂 get me tf out of there .

Anyways... grand finale was me escaping and taking my high self to McDonald’s.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Cutting people out of my life doesn’t mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[allthingslinguistic]

Meme’s Best Friend: The Rise of 'Doggo'

How a possibly-Australian bit of slang came to dominate your social media feeds.

I’m quoted in this Wired article about the history of “doggo”. Excerpt: 

Actually, there’s a strong case to be made that the word originated in Australia. To start, doggo first gained traction on a Facebook group called Dogspotting, a 10-year-old community that became quite popular in Australia, says internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch.

“Australian English has this tendency to make cute pet-names, what’s known in the literature as hypocoristics,” says McCulloch. “Like ‘afternoon’ becomes ‘arvo,’ or ‘avocado’ becomes ‘avo,’ or John becomes ‘John-o’.”

Ben Bergen, a cognitive science professor at UC San Diego, also notes “the -o suffix is much more common in Australia and Great Britain. Like ‘boy-o’ or nicknames for people, like ‘Jim-o.’”

“It’s possible the [Australians on Dogspotting] were just using this slang and it caught on as an internet thing because people encountered it in the group,” says McCulloch.

McCulloch’s research on doggo led her further down under, to a 1966 document titled “Industrial and intellectual property in Australia, Volume 3” in which the word was referenced as an affectionate term for a dog. (Doggo as a term for dog also made an appearance in a 1994 novel set in Sydney called the Weston Men’s Tennis Club.)

Previously about doggo in this article for NPR. 

[just-shower-thoughts]

Introverts don’t make friends, they get adopted by an extrovert

[frankocean]

-5

[soniavalentine]

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