
Josephine is: an internet nerd, a writer of words, and a drinker of fine box wine.
She is also: a constant list-maker, a reader of books, and addicted to lip balm.
conditioned to run.
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I guess what I’m getting at (and by my argument/interpretation, the show itself is getting at as well) is that we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves with this idea of “running in place”, that personal definitions of success are allowed to be fluid and maybe even move in a sine wave pattern, and that the people we love and the people we see every single day factor very much into whether or not our situation can be seen as ideal
Josh sums up my feelings about The Office finale quite eloquently.
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Depression Part Two ›› Hyperbole and a Half
Entropy
sometimes I travel, sometimes I take photos
sometimes you can put your eyes on these photos, if you want.
Julia Gillard was presented with the perfect opportunity to set herself apart from the rest of the pack – to set herself apart, indeed, from the relentless shadow of Kevin Rudd, a social conservative himself – and to state that yes, as an unmarried atheist she too could see that there was no longer such thing as ‘traditional’ partnership, and that speaking as the country’s first female Prime Minister with the first openly lesbian member of an Australian cabinet she could recognise that it was time to set the standard and take us into an inevitable future.
But she didn’t, and it’s too late now, and if she even dared attempt to change her mind 149 days out from the election she would be once again pounced on as a ditherer, a fibber, a leader who no longer understands their core beliefs, if of course they possessed them in the first place.
So this is how it will be.
"and what if this is happiness? what if happiness is the practice of a slow calligraphy of these small gestures? what if it’s always been that way? what if I’m behind on my list of small, happy things?
what would be on your list?
F*** Everything - Gunnarolla
sometimes man, it’s just one of those days.