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Moved, kind of.

HI BABIES. Don’t follow this tumblr anymore. It’s dead, like the title says. I was having technical glitches.

Follow this one instead!

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Oh, she WOULD.

  • Julia (text): I saw your mom at Victoria's Secret
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Even more proof that B. Franklin was awesome

The habit has traveled with the language: in America, in particular, English speakers have sought to expand the range of euphemisms for inebriation. In January 1736, Benjamin Franklin published “a new Piece, lately communicated to me, entitled the DRINKERS DICTIONARY” in the Philadelphia Gazette, which offered 228 “distant round-about phrases,” culled from the taverns of the town, which were understood “to signify plainly that A MAN IS DRUNK.” My favorites include the following:

“He sees the Bears”

“He’s got his Top Gallant Sails out”

“He’s kiss’d black Betty”

“He’s Eat a Toad & half for Breakfast”

“Been too free with Sir Richard”

“Nimptopsical”

“Trammel’d”

(From NYTimes Op-Ed: Besotted - Etymologically, That Is)


I wish people still used such euphemisms for being drunk. How wonderfully silly are they? Next time, instead of being “hammered” or “wasted”, I shall be “nimptopsical.”

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DestroyTwitter

DestroyTwitter was released today! It’s a Twitter application you put on your desktop. So that you can tweet even faster and more frequently now. Can you just visualize my productivity decreasing? Because I def can.

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Umbrella Today?

Best discovery yet.

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Seeing all those “So and so is back at Harvard” Facebook statuses makes me incredibly jealous, and antsy. I WANT TO BE BACK AT HARVARD TOOO!!! T minus 19-ish hours. Mrah mrah mrah.

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New year, new blog, new reason why I’m going to fail this semester

…and a new form of procrastination. If I manage to pass my classes this semester, it will be a miracle. It’s been a while since I’ve kept a blog that is completely open to the public, but I thought I would give it another shot. My other Tumblr, alishalisha, was only used for collecting bits and pieces of graphic design, photography, quotes, etc. that I found beautiful or inspiring, and I never really included any commentary about my life or anything else. So, I guess I am giving this a shot. Woe unto the Internets, for I’ve created yet another Tumblr to clog up your pipes. Oops.

Here are some of my New Year’s Resolutions that will probably go down the drain after, like, February. Or earlier.

  • Go to sleep at a reasonable hour each night. As in, before 1:00AM.
  • Start papers at least three days before they are due. (LOL)
  • Clean the room every Sunday, because it’s nasty. No, seriously. I am so grateful that my super-neat roommates haven’t kicked me out yet.

I’m also jumping on the bandwagon with Project 365, in which I will take one photograph a day. I hope I can keep it up… I think it’s a pretty neat goal that a lot of people are attempting to do. Plus, I’m ready to use and abuse my brand spankin’ new digital camera.