Restlessly Awake

I'm 19, a Duke student, and an Avatar fan. My blog focuses on what keeps me up at night. For better or worse. ATTENTION: All institutions and/or individuals using this site or its associated sites for projects or personal use - You do not have permission from me to use any of my profile or pictures in any form or any forum posts both current and future. If you have or do, it will be considered a violation of my privacy and will be subject to legal action. This blog is not available for academic uses; this includes but is no limited to term papers, research projects, etc. Do NOT use this blog as research without the consent of the author. ocultar mi ip | diseño catálogo web

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REBLOG IF IT IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE FOR YOUR FEMALE FOLLOWERS TO SEND YOU NUDES.

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the three MOST honest minutes in television history. EVER. 

wow.. is this real?

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i fucking love fuckin aaron sorkin man

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This just became my favorite video of all time

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I love this show. It’s called Newsroom. Check it out.

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I’m going to have to say that the whole “nostalgia” section of his rant is pretty much bullshit. Let’s face it: The revolutionary war was about taxes. The Civil War was about white people wanting slavery.  The Chinese Exclusion Act was about keeping people OUT because of their race.  The War of 1812 was America’s way of saying “TOLD YOU SO” and was TOTALLY historical “beating of the chest.” The Spanish American “War” was ten times shorter than the Filipino Insurrection and it was all about taking land.  The Japanese Internment Camps were racially profiling American citizens, many of whom were off fighting for those very same ideals he’s talking about glorifying. 

Yeah, America is sucky in a lot of ways, but you’re never going to convince me that somehow, shit was better in the past.

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Fuck waxing poetic about how great American history is.

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Marry Belated Christmas.

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Five years after he started “crime suppression” sweeps that terrorized Latino neighborhoods across Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is finally having to explain himself. Not to TV crews in Phoenix or to fawning hosts on Fox News, but before a federal judge.

Sheriff Joe on Trial - NYTimes.com (via sarahlee310)

I hope ALL the chickens be comin home to roost on this fucker

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[thoughtlessuntildusk]

Joy (Fully)

I can't live with you.

But I could have.

I couldn't love you when I had you,

and now-

I miss you.

I had fallen out of step,

been misplaced,

and stumbled.

(That was my fault.

I wasn't ready.

I could have.)

Yet,

the Gracious Lioness,

had taught me Mercy.

Do not spurn the hearth,

she whispered.

Do not burn the home,

for even the shadows need a place to sleep.

People are more than our mistakes.

Love, Sage, love.

Before you left, you said:

"Make sure you leave places sad."

"Everyone in your life is for a reason."

"Whatever you do, do not hate."

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sexy with her swag. I like.

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Just a note to all people planning on giving blood, remember it only has a shelf life of 42 days. After 9/11, so many people donated that there was a glut of blood in the system and much of it expired on the shelves, unused, because there was more than needed. ALso, if you donate right now, you will not be eligible to donate again for 8 weeks, so about a month after 9/11 there was a bit of a shortage, because many people couldn’t donate again for several weeks. Consider delaying your donation for a week or two to insure a good steady flow of blood that will allow blood banks to replenish their inventory. Most blood banks in the United States are part of an emergency sharing system and will be shipping ready to transfuse products to Boston if they are needed. Spacing out donations insures everyone will have blood to provide their community in the coming weeks.

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Useful information!  Please consider spacing out your donations! (and if you can, please donate)

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...I love the Sinking Feeling of the Opening Piano Solo in Skyfall.

Such depth. Like drowning in beauty.

...and then I imagined the opening of KH.

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Look who’s back in the DC Universe?

 Batman Incorporated #10 (three more issues to go). This week.

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★ dreamcaffebean

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London Hub City Project - By Grimshaw Architects and Urban Research Unit

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If only using one of London’s many airports was as easy as this graphic is awesome. 

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'standing'

From the title alone, there is a double entendre, and this short poem hides depth of meaning.

You focus on what seems to be a duality. 1) There is a change in personal status, or standing; 2) your feeling of loss of a personal seat, that would leave you standing. Curiously, the second part makes the notion of you standing, yet simultaneous absence, interesting to consider in the framework of the extended metaphor.

For reasons I don't understand, I keep imagining this as a seat at a stadium. Not so much a table. Nor is it around a bonfire. But at a stadium- where you would be one of many gathered to see a spectacle. 

Yet, the feeling you meant to portray is not lost on me, here. You felt special, and now you do not. You feel your name was changed, and now you have become forgotten. Even you have forsaken the name. Now, you are gone-- ah, but this is where it is the most interesting:

Why are you gone?

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Don't expect to see this image in your local & national news

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'Nobody'

This one, so far, is my favorite. Why? Because it is complex, it is relatable, and it remains personal. It touches on the ideas of how others perceive you and evaluate you, the betrayal of having someone in your most vulnerable of spaces, or losing yourself and being mistreated in the process.

The second stanza, is curious. It is the part of self-worth, of recognizing those pieces of ourselves that we treasure, simply as self-knowledge. Yet, the way that it is written, it sounds as if those disguised treasures and sentimental gems are useless to anyone else. That perplexes me, simply for my irrelevant personal opinions.

Finally, the last line is best: the recognition of your own potential. And that, I enjoy.

[thoughtlessuntildusk]

'anger.'

I happen to love anger, because of it's tendency to act like a burst- the emotional firecracker. Of course, this is just my bias. On to the poem:

The flame imagery makes it apparent: this emotion ravages you. Two lines i fail to understand: "try to break the anger" and "it's been so chill here". The anger frustrates you, but it feels good to express. Yet, every time you attempt to engage it, it only destroys you more, causing physically ill symptoms. Your well-being cannot handle it. Curious, because it lacks the spark. Yet, I'll agree with Lanel: hand me a cool trigger to balance out the burn.

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Which Image Would You Choose?

This week’s show features two Christian communities who are now minorities in Turkey’s religious makeup. While they are on the spiritual boundaries of the secular state of Turkey, they are finding new-found freedoms under a government headed by an Muslim prime minister.

For our companion website and our email newsletter, we need to choose a lead image. Which one would you pick?

~Trent Gilliss, senior editor