22.12.11
in which our heroine is just trying to pick up lunch
I was reading The Moviegoer while I waited in line to pick up lunch. The tall man in front of me turned around at one point, looked me up and down, and gave me a smarmy smile.
“Men don’t really like it when women read so much,” he said, setting my blood to instaboil.
“Women who read don’t really like letting men who are that dumb get it in,” I replied with a beatific smile.
He glowered and turned around. Naturally, he ordered the worst sandwich ever.
21.12.11
Word. My middle name is tounge-in-cheek. I think those that enjoy me the most are the ones that realize that I am being facetious 90% of the time. It’s that 10% that’s tricky though.
I know how this feels. Except when I should be taken seriously- aka we’re talking about a serious topic, whether it be personal life or politics.
(via espritfollet)
19.12.11
I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re always thinking that someday we’ll be happy. You know, we’ll get that car or that job or that person in our lives that fixes everything. But happiness is a mood and a condition, it’s not a destination. It’s like being tired or hungry; it’s not permanent, it comes and goes, and that’s okay. And I feel like if people thought of it that way, they’d find happiness a lot more often.
One Tree Hill | carp3—diem (via quote-book)
17.12.11
I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via laceofpearls)
(Source: quote-book)
14.12.11
“Uhura” comes from the Swahili word UHURU meaning “freedom”. Uhura was pretty much the first ever black main character on American television who was not a maid or a domestic servant in 1966. TV network NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hired her as a “day worker,” but still included her in almost every episode. She actually made more money than any of the other actors through this workaround, and it was kept secret from the other actors, but it was still a humiliating second-class status. The network people made life hard for Nichols, constantly trying to pare down her screen time, purposefully dropping racist comments in her presence and even withholding her fan mail from her.This deplorable state of affairs led Nichols to make the decision to quit after the 1st season, but then she happened to meet the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. who pleaded with her to stick with the show because as a Black woman she was portraying the first non-stereotypical role on television. I had a crush on Uhura as a kid. LOL.
(via blackfashion)
13.12.11
That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.
17.11.11
