February 2012
5 posts
Six of the oldest trees in the world →
some names and places have been changed to protect the innocent.
January 2012
21 posts
also
in that same waiting room some dude walked out of the back and asked me how old Saxon is? Because he looks like a small lab. He can only see Saxon’s head and lanky front legs, the rest of him is tucked under my chair.
Saxon is the biggest dog our puppy club has had in roughly 5 years. I tell the man that Saxon is almost 17 months and weighs 71 pounds. He says his lab is bigger - apparently...
re: that last post
my dad was a vietnam vet, so.
the other day my mom and I were sitting in the waiting room for her joint doctor, surrounded by old people whose joints had also been replaced with metal. A Very Old Man walks by with a walker and a nurse carrying his oxygen supply. He is wearing a world war II veteran’s hat. I looked at my mom and assured her that had my dad still been alive, I would have made...
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn’t. It simply files things...
– Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time...
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all...
– John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
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December 2011
9 posts
He basically is...
Classmate: where is your dog tonight?
Me: oh, he had a presentation to go to.
Classmate: so he has his own agenda.
Me: yeah. I have to pick him up after class
Classmate: the way you talk about him, he sounds like a human being.
Me: haha, he basically is.
November 2011
21 posts
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Business Insider did a photo tour of my office --... →
I have your app. I asked it how to get from Manhattan Beach to PV and it told me to walk. :)
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the best part about learning to be a teacher
is other teachers talking about the things kids like, such as Twilight. Today in class one of my classmates was like, GET THIS!! THE KID EATS ITS WAY OUT OF HER BELLY, THEN SHE HAS TO BECOME A VAMPIRE SO SHE DOESN’T DIE AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
we seriously laughed for like 20 minutes
in class.
"Stories from Spotify won't appear in your News...
amen.