on life and unhappiness:

“if you feel like you are having an orgasm all the time, you won’t know what it feels like when you actually have one.”

—the most interesting lady at the super bowl party I happened to go to.

Maybe it was because I worked too many hours on my feet and he told me he wasn’t coming after all, after weeks of promises, or maybe it was because for the first time in so long I was really enjoying myself, really feeling satisfied and in place, that made the off the cuff comment so hurtful.  Swearing it was benign an hour later after I told her how fucked up I thought it was, I  hate feeling bad about it because, well, what a fucking waste but it was so mean.  And it wasn’t like an ‘aw shucks ma that was embarrassing’ but instead it was a comment that cut me deeply and I wondered how she could say something so awful and think it was a funny joke in a room full of people. I left maybe two minutes later, livid. 

I’m over this town. Living where I grew up. Seeing the same people.  The same ones who want to get married soon, so young, and have babies and dogs and a house with a big yard. And me? Well that stuff makes me nauseous and yet, what does sound good?  Floating around the atmosphere, alone? With a sometimes guy? In a new city? Would getting lost and trying new indian restraunts and sleeping around even excite me anymore? Or would the familiarity of the guy and the comfort of a city I know well be soothing??  

Sweet dreams. 

If you get the piece of king cake with the baby, it is a year of good luck and a promise for you to bring next year’s cake. 

I found it online. I struggle to think of a word to call the cop.  Cunt? I’m supposed to like, love that word for my vagina right? Bitch? Doesn’t seem to suffice.  I guess.. scum. 

There is this disgusting fucking female police officer arresting a sex worker on some shitty show that I happened to end up on and she just said, 

“Are you here for prostitution. OH YOU ARE, AREN’T YOU?!! And you have lice, scabies, and hepatitis, not that I am judging you.” And then she giggled and the woman who I can only really call a victim, turned away clearly ashamed.  

Is it even fucking legal for them to list their medical issues on television?  This cop thinks she has so much power. But really she is just an inarticulate nobody in a uniform with a gun with zero knowledge of anything other than her despicably narrow minded perspective of society. 

Her dress is so small and she is barefoot and I hope she isn’t cold.

ALSO

I GOT THE BABY IN THE FIRST BITE. If you don’t know what this means, you obviously are not from New Orleans. 

http://www.holidays.net/mardigras/cake.html

13 words not found in the english language

starongie:

plenilune:

As a linguistics and language-culture paramour (no, really, pretty much), this made me squee all over.

via syntaxed: kiki-miserychic: doseofwords: earlyfrost:

1. Waldeinsamkeit

(German): the feeling of being alone in the woods

2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise – everyone wins)

4. Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery

5. Esprit de l’escalier (French): a witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs…

6. Meraki (Greek): doing something with soul, creativity, or love

7. Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways’, referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language:

8. Duende (Spanish): a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art, which might be fulfilled in flamenco dancing, or bull-fighting, etc.

9. Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favour, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favour to be repaid.

10. Pochemuchka (Russian): a person who asks a lot of questions

11. Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): to borrow objects one by one from a neighbour’s house until there is nothing left

12. Radioukacz (Polish): a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain

13. Selathirupavar (Tamil): a word used to define a certain type of absence without official leave in face of duty

demons:sisterspock:talosix:streamsofmoonlight

Yoko meshi and litost, are my favorite. 

He sure is a miracle. Where would be all be without another fucking quarterback?  Right….. Perhaps it would have been more convincing if he cured AIDS or something. But a UF quarterback? No.

mafiosa:

psychotherapy:

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

-  Albert Einstein

"what’s jagermeister?”
“umm. well, you know how in a fairy tale there’s always a potion that makes the princess fall asleep and then the guys start kissing her? well, this is like that except you don’t wake up in a castle, you wake up in a frat house with a bad reputation."

(via secretshhshh)

this makes me so fucking angry. a few people i was with were watching this show (modern family) and when i heard this i started choking. why is rape funny? or, why isn’t fucking a woman when she’s passed out considered rape? 
there was a mini-uproar at umass a few months ago. their student newspaper printed a comic with snow white lying drunk on a table, the elves or dwarfs or whatever saying to one another, ‘who’s next?’ the artist was anonymous but the editor ended up suspended, i believe. 
people say in response, ‘yeah, folk should be more sensitive because when they make rape jokes around women, statistically speaking they’re probably talking to a rape victim.’ it isn’t about that, though. i’m not offended by the two comments listed because i woke up one morning and found out several men had drugged and fucked me. i’m offended by them because they’re disgusting, and they perpetuate our rape culture where men believe they can pull shit like that and have everything be fine. men who are surrounded by media telling them it’s funny for a woman to be violated, or touched without their consent in any way, they’re not going to know it’s wrong, and women who are constantly told that these are normal happenings are going to repress, and not seek the help they may need. 
i don’t even understand why it’s funny. writers use the same cookie-cuttered rape jokes over and over in an attempt to be edgy, but is anyone ever amused by them past the point where they feel expected to laugh?  

to counter this douchebaggery, here’s a zine about consent.

(via tissie)

(via coitusandcopouts)

I haven’t seen the episode yet, but did you think that maybe she wasn’t referring to rape?  Alcohol can make you pass out, but before that state, it also lessens your inhibitions and may lead you to consent to things that you may not do otherwise…  Girls and Guys drink and then hook up while drunk.  Is it rape any time a girl drinks alcohol and sleeps with a guy?  I think that people need to take a step back and think about this a little more.

(via mikesova)

hi mike,

This is how I understood it.

“there’s always a potion that makes the princess fall asleep and then the guys start kissing her.”

that is a pretty explicit reference to rape.  It seems to me it is not merely alluding to being drunk and posessing less inhibitions, but instead being passed out and being violated.