May 2012
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Mind the Gap
LOL!
shitmystudentswrite:
Without writing, we would all hopelessly crumple to the bottom of subway station tracks as we collectively failed to ‘Mind the Gap.’
27 thoughts on my 27th birthday
Hmm, nothing changed.
Wish I could disappear on my birthday until it’s over.
Will I die this year?
I’ll probably live a long boring life.
Odd numbers are nice; 27 is going to be good!
Bring on the Facebook birthday wishes!
Sadly, I didn’t get any automated birthday emails/texts this year.
Need to make some sort of a move.
I should’ve planned something for my...
How to survive on a KD 20 ($70) salary in Kuwait...
Wage inequity
shitmystudentswrite:
Two individual rights that are protected by the US Constitution an the French Declaration of the Rights of Man are that when men work hard, they get paid more, but if they don’t work hard, they get the same amount of money as the women.
“It is a subtle but firm reminder that, at the end of the day, no matter what...”
– Chelsea Fagan (via erinmayle)
From Thank You, Hilary Clinton, For Not Caring What People Think About Your Looks
(via faganchelsea)
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it;...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via idterab)
nostalgia is for self-loathing losers
Just came back from a wonderful event that screened Kuwaiti short films; too bad most of them played around a nostalgic theme. At least two used props indicating an element of the past, and one of them was downright a film about the Gulf War; as if I needed to be reminded of how awful those times were.
When thinking about the past, we either feel the joy of what once was or sorrow for the...
“The whole 20th century was a mistake”
– Vivienne Westwood (via nevver)
