I Absolutely Adore His Wedding Picture

I absolutely adore his wedding picture

Happy 70th Birthday, Stephen William Hawking (born 8 January 1942) “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” - Stephen Hawking

Kurt Vonnegut

Learn More. Learn Some More. Act.

This is Why Our Family Ski Trips Are The Best

[via text] uncle: Estimated time of arrival?

me: 9:00ish, but we have to pick up Mary from the airport.

uncle: Tell us when you're leaving the airport. We'll try to sober up.

me: Will do. You'll probably need the time.

uncle: Did you end up bringing a friend?

me: We're leaving the airport. And no I have no friends.

uncle: sadness permeates my being

On Mildly Childish Feuding

so I had to go through all my old graded papers tonight because one of my college apps requires a graded, analytical paper from an english class either this year or last year, and we haven't written anything really this year. [you know, except the god awful 12 page book thingy that's due tomorrow.] so I had to go through and look at the lack of feedback I got, and the pretentious attached to the feedback i did get, and see my old teacher's loppy smiley handwriting I always wanted to punch in the face when I came to a realization:

I still really, really have problems with my English teacher from last year.

i have reasons, but i think i'm mainly just radiating a massive wall of dislike and intolerance for smugness. i disliked her as a teacher and a person, and it wasn't like i did poorly in her class or anything. i just hated, hated, going to that class every day. and now I have to use one of the fucking papers she barely graded so that i can get into college. assuming i have a chance at getting into college. since I ignored her advice to only take two ap classes.

Anyways, this kind of solid, personal and professional dislike is an awful reflection on me. I don't know what my problem is with being a bigger person but I just cannot get past my anger and unhappiness. Which is dumb, cause anything I have that kind of emotion towards gets power over me. So I just never see her and call it good and when people ask me how she is as a teacher I tell them to ask someone else because I am in no place to make an analysis that agrees with the majority of students.

wow i look like a wreck

On Family

and by this I just mean our extended family takes the best portraits and also I'm sitting up here listening to my dad singing along to Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You." ("singing" might be generous)

i need to get out of this house more