TEDTalk: David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy ( Read more... )

NCIS episode. Tony is bound to a chair, shot full of truth serum. McGee is on the floor faking unconsciousness. Zeva is in the chair opposite Tony. The middle eastern bad guy has a knife to her throat.

Tony: Stop, stop. There's something I haven't told you yet ( Read more... )

When I was writing a paper on F. Scott Fitzgerald in high school, I came across some secondary source material -- professional critiques -- that shared a metaphor about Fitzgerald's perspective as a narrator. He had a split perspective. The little boy looking in the window of the party as well as someone inside dancing. And through the progression ( Read more... )

Lera Lynn "My Least Favorite Life ( Read more... )

Okay, this totally made me cry and describes why a recent friendship ended. I'm only quoting part of the article. Source listed at the end.

To my inner circle, my best friends, my confidants, to anyone I trust with my soul ( Read more... )

Meant to post this one the other day. Guess it's journal catch up day. :)

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I'm big on stealing content tonight. Always like to save the good stuff off in case a website disappears. Credits at the bottom.

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The Egg ( Read more... )

In college ... about a million years ago ... I took a English class. We paired up with another student to beta read each other's papers. Don't remember exactly what the paper was on, but the other student and I were on opposite sides of the flowery language issue. I tend to write long detailed sentences with big words and flowery metaphoric ( Read more... )

Yay! I solved my "What is that song?" problem. Seems like the song isn't available yet, but someone pointed me to the composer's twitter feed. Song that was on General Hospital. I was pissy that Shazam couldn't figure it out. It just gave me the name of the show. Duh ( Read more... )