April 2013
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Next up in Rachel's life: Hell week[end] takes on...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changesss tiiiiiime to face the straaaaiin Ch-ch-chaaangessss!
5/3 Graduate from college. 5/4 Pack and say goodbye to my life for the last 4 years (and my family.) 5/5 Fly to New Mexico, arrive home at 6 pm, pack for Africa. 5/6 Drive 2 hours back to the airport, catch my flight to London. 5/7 Spend a few hours in London [hopefully with my lovely friend Lauren] and then fly to...
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March 2013
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thestrawberryswings:
THIS IS WHY I’M NEVER...
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Leprosy Friends Lyrics, by MARS TO PiG MOTHER
Leprosy friends Together forever Despite all the weather We’re leprosy friends.
Leprosy friends Though our skin feels like leather And we’ll never get better We’re leprosy friends.
Leprosy friends We’re friends til the end Though our fingers fall off And we’ll soon lose our limbs
Leprosy friends Together forever Despite all the weather We’re leprosy...
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February 2013
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I’m not the kind of person to plan my wedding or surrounding festivities before I’m even dating anybody, but I’m increasingly aware that I will be completely willing to have a backyard potluck of a wedding if it means I get to go on an Adriatic Sea cruise for my honeymoon.
so maybe i’ve always been somewhat tempted to youtube search videos of people popping zits. but like…i’m way too terrified and even thinking about it makes me sick. but still…maybe some day i will….
just wanted to share that.
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adamwh7 asked: Sorry if that last message ended so quickly, but I was very limited on character count : P Anyway, hope to hear from you soon. -Adam.
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Pondering point of the evening
What if a bitch WAS one of my problems, but I only had like, 32 of them?
How to get rid of period cramps
This is my tried and true way to not have period cramps.
Step 1: Get gum surgery
Step 2: Obtain narcotics
Step 3: Take for period cramps
Step 4: Skreel, ya’ll
January 2013
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One Congolese woman’s story. Please listen.
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On Neutral Milk Hotel and a lot of Crying.
Last night I lost my i.d. while walking to the Jeff Mangum/Neutral Milk Hotel concert and I cried and cried and cried because I thought I would miss my only chance ever to see him play. But then somehow I magically got into the show without it, and I’m pretty sure that saved my life because if I had had to stand outside knowing that my favorite musician ever was inside playing, I probably...
A good anti-rape/women's rights site →
She might be wearing that to impress somebody...
Ausländer: Trauma in the CONGO →
thechronicwanderlust:
Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to one of the deadliest and most violent wars in human history. One of the main weapons used in this war is rape and violence against women. Rebel groups and armed militia take over villages by targeting women with sexual violence. The horrors these…
December 2012
3 posts
Look what I'm doing when I graduate!!! →
thechronicwanderlust:
Hi everyone!
It was a fun and busy semester and now it’s over! I’m sitting here thinking about how I only have one semester left of college and then it’s off to real life I go….
I am going back to Zambia this summer! This is more than just a trip—this is a missions training course called AMT…
Everyone who wants to know what I’m doing with my life…..
November 2012
6 posts
On seeing my favorite band in concert
Corey: [in response to the status I posted 1 minute ago] You’re going to see Neutral Milk Hotel! You must be happier than a clam during crabbing season.
Me:
Corey: Wow I just realized how inadvertently quickly I responded to that news, I feel creepy…
Me: :))) I don’t even care how creepy you are because my dreams have come truuuuuue!
Corey: You don’t care how creepy I...
Sweeny Todd meets Cake Boss
Me: This guy’s probably got a barber shop where he makes meat cakes. Would you like to try my meat cakes little girl?
Jessie: Bahaha he probably yells about how he’s the BOSS of MEAT.
Me: I hope meat boss is the next big show. I hope it’s on instant play.
Jessie: Where it’s not only comedic because his family is Italian and wacky, but it teaches you how to properly...
October 2012
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Quick somebody remind me that marriage is actually really miserable a lot of the time.
Because both Facebook and Twitter really enjoy convincing everyone that weddings are basically synonymous to having a gigantic expensive birthday party, except it’s with your best friend and you get to have a lot of sex afterwards. And then it’s over.
It’s not over after that.
After that...
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A concise summary of the abortion arguments...
Opinion 1: “What goes on with a woman’s body is no ones business or choice but her own.”
Opinion 2: “It’s everyone’s business when it comes to human life and the people who are affected by it.”
There you go. Now, nobody else post political arguments about this issue on Facebook anymore. We got it covered.
Now I will try to find a concise summary...
we know when we go we won’t come back home
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why does my hair look so friggen short in a ponytail? it’s effing long now but that doesn’t do us any good apparently.
but look how long
it comes down to where i’m pointing so tell me doctor is there hope?
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September 2012
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August 2012
10 posts
I Spy: Kathmandu Street Life Edition
two old women carrying heaping baskets of greens larger than their entire bodies on their backs
a boy in a demon mask chasing two other kids around in front of a row of cramped, shadowy shops
women wrapped in colorful cloth washing their hair at busy water taps and in plastic basins
a lone toddler taking a poop on the roadside
trash
two mangy dogs fighting over a banana peel
a little girl...
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A letter to average American girls.
Dear average American girl,
Hi. I have two things to discuss with you. This is for all of us.
1. There’s more to life than flirting with and impressing cute guys. Most of you will “duh” at me for saying that, but if you honestly examine what drives your Everyday, you may find it more of an epiphany. If you have trouble not letting thoughts of boys motivate the large...
Nursing, battling demons, and doing the Stanky...
I am now known as the Asha Nepal nurse. Ever since Namu’s accident, everyone comes to me to fix scrapes and cuts and blisters. “Sista, sista! You are Asha Nepal nurse!” seven year old Deena says to me daily, even when there is no nursing to be done in sight. I don’t think I’ve ever taken my band aid changing skills so seriously.
Last night one of the ladies had a...
