The Reason I Like Reading A Book In One Day Is Because I Love Watching People Look At The Size Of The

“Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.”

— (via be-killed)

The Paul Barret Jr. Library, Memphis

i have been watching you from at the back fo your friends head this infatuation seems to be reliving of moment where our eyes met and when you didnt acknowledge my feelings for you

Surreal artwork by Jie Ma.

Can you do me a really big favor?

This is one of my closest friends, Samantha. Samantha has a bunch of disabilities, and her family is struggling so much to pay for it. To quote the page, “She was born with a extremely rare genetic duplication, static encephalopathy, mild cerebral palsy, Mitochondria, gastric disorders, and more. Over the years she has had more problems, with her health issues.” 

You don’t have to donate, but if you do, literally any type of money would help. You know that 4.45 you pay for starbucks? Maybe donate that instead.

That saying, if you can’t donate, PLEASE reblog this! Please. They only have 95 dollars out of 1,700$ raised, and they seriously need help.  The link to her page is down below:

https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/95x9 

constantly attacked with 3am thoughts

Im from nz i find u offensive

New Zealand isn’t real, nice try

towards a gentle academic

be up front and honest about the things you do not know

acknowledge the intrinsic value of others’ knowledge bases, even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context

do not feign mastery where you have none

respect the gaps in others’ knowledge bases

be generous, not only with others

but also with yourself

you overwork yourself at the risk of legitimizing a culture of overwork 

privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy

nothing is ever neutral or apolitical

support the progress of other scholars

collaboration over competition