Went into tj maxx for one shirt and came out with four. Damn you cynthia rowley and your adorable zippered tanks
Bb geese!!!
And this ia my bloodshot eyes back at the hotel pic
My sister graduated college
David Boreanaz was there
We drank lots of wine
Ithaca is full of fluffy bb geese
The Potoo - Either the most unphotogenic or the most ridiculous looking bird in the world.
word bird? is that you?
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FAKE BIRD
BUT IT’S REAL AND A GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH OF IT IS THE MOST REWARDING THING YOU WILL EVER DO
Goatsuckers in general are really weird looking. Consider a Common Nighthawk with its mouth open.
(Source: iwasteyourprecioustime)
In the movies there is always one with red lips who is beautiful and cruel. She is the one who drives the men crazy and laughs them all away. Her power is her own. She will not give it away.
I have begun my own quiet war. Simple. Sure. I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate.
— Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (via clitics)
These are called fringed polygama and look like muppets
Wild geraniums of upstate New York
Gold colored miniature Trust No Man banner earrings with inch wide charms for twelve dollars.
Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to America. The immigration guys kick the star out of stardom. They always ask me how tall I am and I always lie and say 5 feet 10 inches. Next time, I am going to get more adventurous. If they ask me ‘what color are you?’ I am going to say white.
—
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on being detained at the U.S. Airport—twice. (Once, he was detained while promoting a film called “My Name is Khan” which was ironically about a person with the last name Khan suffering from repeated racial profiling.)
Multiple actors and other prominent individuals in the film industry with the last name “Khan” have been detained when entering the country. Irrfan Khan (The Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, Spider-man) described the three times he was stopped—while on the way to receive honors for his roles in films such as The Namesake—as “humiliating.” Actor Aamir Khan was stopped and stripped searched in 2002. Director Kabir Khan, was reportedly detained at least three times in 2008 while filming in the United States. The New York Times ended up remarking on The Dangers of Fying While Khan
This much is clear:
- Despite being an incredibly common surname, in the United States, Khan is a racialized last name and those who carry it suffer from additional, insulting, stigma and scrutiny.
- There is no shortage of talented actors of South Asian descent whether from within the United States, from the UK, or Bollywood—and many of them even have the last name of Khan.
- With Star Trek Into Darkness the name “Khan” is once again stigmatized as antagonistic, but the actors named Khan, the Khans of the world, and those who look like Khans once again have no voice about how they are represented in American media.
If you’re an award winning actor named Khan, you will still get stopped and humiliated at the airport. When that rare character in American media finally shows up sharing your name, he will be played by a white British man. That actor will wear your name for one movie and sneer and strut to great critical acclaim. You will wear your racialized name, your skin color, and hope you don’t get detained another time.
(via racebending)
This is why fuck Boogerdoodle Catmulch
(via satanic2chainz)
(Source: rt.com)
philosophizing on organizational theory
there are times that someone within an organization or institution makes a really shitty decision about direction. it can be software used, management strategies/practices, or whatever else that many future decisions about direction will be based on and around. so all those future changes aren’t really changes because the original shitty decision about direction has created this framework of crap within which the organization or institution must now (attempt to) function. this means that organizations are not functioning at full capacity because the goals being set are limited by a framework of crap and a culture tainted by the fear of veering from shitty plans.
so sometimes we need to smash the existing systems and institutions to bits and start all over. fuck the frameworks and original decisions about direction. we must view the frameworks of crap as reductions in our efficiency and capacity to reach real, innovative goals.
in essence: to achieve excellence, we’ve got to fuck some shit up and start anew.
awesome things are happening
- Engagement ring shopping
- New (second, but more highly paid) job
- Everyone at job 1 thinks I’m awesome and is really digging all the stuff I’m putting out
- Awesome new work project where I get to show off my creativity
- Going to Ithaca tomorrow thru Tuesday to see sister graduate college
- Boyfriend took me on the greatest date of all time last night
- I had pizza for dinner
and I should be happy but really I just feel down?
(Source: polyandthenomials)
if in your evaluation of a conference session on diversity, you refer to “diversities” in quotation marks as if they’re imaginary or something, I’m going to go ahead and mark you down as not having learned anything.
