December 2010
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Oh, and my New Year's resolution?
Ask me somewhere else, but it’s a good one.
Dec 31st
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I always have grand plans for some profound,...
I am the only person who still calls blogs “journals.” I was blogging before blogging was even a word. Looking Back: 2010 Well, it didn’t suck like 2008. Was it better than 2009? In some ways, it probably was. I tried new things; I caused some controversies. I found out that I don’t want to be a reporter. I wore a red dress to FD. I watched most of the entire series of...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
Dec 31st
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“Chopdawg is not for the faint of heart.”
– Anthony J. Ballor
Dec 30th
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“I guess what I’m saying is, I’m not going to look at you and think...”
– Joey, Dawson’s creek aww
Dec 30th
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“I’ll watch the night turn light blue But it’s not the same without...”
– Owl City Damn it, it is true. Last night I had a lot of dreams about people it could have worked out with but didn’t. Except that’s not true. /emo
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Only three weeks until my life/career will have...
Until then, I guess I will keep googling English master’s programs, ranches for sale in South Dakota, and jobs in Europe
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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I am posting from my new Kindle wooo
woooo
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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katherineroberts asked: Make a list of what makes you happy and then do all of those things. Like, ride a unicorn to Norway while wearing a cardigan and eating poptarts! YAY!!! That will make you famous! And then people will be excited to read about your adventures. And then you will be even more famous.

Or you could marry a lawyer and/or geographer and live next door to me forever. I don't know what...
Dec 24th
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This post is going to be crazy and about the...
Don’t you love it when I use double titles? I’m like Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, or What You Will. So, the future. Specifically, mine. More specifically, mine career-wise and/or academic(ally?). Really, I just need January 18 to hurry up and get here so that I will at least have a direction to pursue. Either I’m doing TFA and I have two years to decide what to do after...
Dec 24th
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So, Gnomeo and Juliet? →
I want to work in children’s movies. I want to spend my life coming up with stuff like this. GNOMEO AND JULIET.
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Nihilist/Existentialist penguin. Poor thing. →
Dec 23rd
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“And here I thought life was about the things you do, not the things you could...”
– Eddie, Dawson’s Creek, while he and Joey are talking about On the Road and Paris
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“But now, thy youngest, dearest one, has perished- The nursling of thy...”
– Percy Shelley, Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Shelley and I are sad about Keats.
Dec 20th
Dec 19th
I keep losing followers :(
Am I not entertaining enough? Or maybe I am too entertaining. I tend to post like 12 times a day.
Dec 18th
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I wrote a song about being stuck in the airport...
I’m feeling kind of tired, stuck in North Caroline Chilling on the floor, supposed to be in the sky I’m on standby, I’m flyin’ standby I’m flyin’ standby, I’m flyin’ standby, standby No, not feelin’ good tonight But eating in the airport feels so right, oh Time to do the things I like Going to the Starbucks, try to make it all right, oh No one...
Dec 17th
December 16, 1775 Jane Austen, the author who...
Happy birthday, Jane Austen!
Dec 16th
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I started crying because I have friends who are...
The future is weird and scary. Why do we all have to grow up? Can’t I just start over and do college again? I don’t like this. We’re too young for this. But I guess we’re not.
Dec 16th
I finished fall term!
My last W&L fall term ever is over with. And it was definitely my best. I’ll miss it.
Dec 15th
katherineroberts asked: "You are still a victim of the accidents you leave, as sure as I'm a Chopdawg of desire." - Billy Joel.
Dec 15th
Anonymous asked: Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was -David Byrne
love ya, JPChop
Dec 15th
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My romantic fascination with New England and...
How many times am I going to post on Tumblr before this paper is done, hmm?
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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I love nighttime, but apparently being nocturnal...
Is it the lack of sunlight or the lack of human contact? Whatever the reason, I am lonely and sad in the library. Maybe it’s the fact that most of my friends are done with work and either have gone home or get to spend time with their significant others. And I am alone. I only have this one paper left to do, and it won’t even be hard, but I don’t want to do it. I just want to...
Dec 15th
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8638551.stm
This is cool and it also kind of supports the paper I wrote last night (this morning?) on dreams and memory in Romantic poetry. But I’m not sure if scientists would encourage opium use as a way to have dreams, as De Quincey would….
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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My ability to write really weird poems in high...
It’s 4:11 a.m. and I’ve been writing about De Quincey and Keats for hours. (Topic: opium and memory and dreams, oh my!) I took a tiny break to write this absurd poem in response to a facebook ad for Diet Coke: but Diet Coke I never was extraordinary You’re too silver and red Like candy canes. You think it matters that you asked me to stay? Your opiate secrets weren’t...
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of...”
– Thomas de Quincey (via hotparade) De Quincey! Also, he has a lot of interesting views on light.
Dec 13th
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I love Thomas De Quincey even though he was an...
More discussion of this will follow.
Dec 13th
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10 most popular boys' names in Norway →
I love all these names!
Dec 13th
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Wikileaks, Sweden, and condoms →
A lot of things I care about are in this article…
Dec 12th
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Addendum to previous post
There is such a thing as too much free coffee. :(
Dec 11th
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Freeeeee coffee, coffee that is free! Or, why I...
It seems strange, but I love finals week. There’s no class. I can choose what day I will take my exams. And there’s FREE COFFEE. I always feel like there’s a lot of free time during finals week, since I can stay up all night studying or writing papers and don’t have to wake up for class. This is probably bad because it means I procrastinate, but it’s also fun. I...
Dec 11th
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Watching Shakespeare in Love while writing my...
And thus it also makes sense to watch Never Been Kissed, which also makes references to As You Like It…
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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“I’m really into anthropomorphic poptarts.”
–  A thing I have said before
Dec 10th