apsies: Archive

“I mean, we have a house that has stuff in it back in Chicago. We have friends that we love who we invite here all the time. But the truth is, is that if you plucked us up and put us anywhere right now, what we’d know with this change is that we’re always a family when we’re together. And in the end, that’s what really matters. So while I like going back to Chicago — I like to see the lake — this is home now because this is where we’ve built our lives. And when it’s time to leave, we’ll build it somewhere else.” —Michelle Obama, when asked if she misses living in Chicago

May 28, 201238 notes

#Michelle Obama #Barack Obama #Chicago

I have an online midterm to take tonight

It’s a word document that I submit to a dropbox when I’m finished. The professor has written this in the instructions:

Please do not refer to your text, lecture notes, chat sessions, reading assignments, colleagues, family, internet, or other sources.

But it’s an at home exam with no time limit in a word document! How am I supposed to resist the temptation to, oh I don’t know, NOT FAIL?

May 28, 201233 notes

May 28, 2012601 notes

#Somebody let me into a Master's program #lol

May 28, 2012159 notes

May 28, 201232 notes

“The day you look dumb in the grocery store at 7:19 in the morning is also the day you run into that duuude you don’t want to run into, and his stupid-hot-at-7:19-in-the-morning girlfriend. Don’t worry. You’re buying kale and olive oil. At least you can cook.” —Joy the Baker – These Things I’ve Learned in Thirty Years

May 28, 201230 notes

“From the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan, they stepped forward and answered the call. They fought for a home they may never return to, they fought for buddies they would never forget. While their stories may be separated by hundreds of years and thousands of miles, they rest here together side-by-side, row-by-row, because each of them love this country and everything it stands for more than life itself.” —President Obama pays tribute to U.S. troops on Memorial Day (via kileyrae)

May 28, 201224 notes

May 28, 20122,153 notes

#Mad Men

“Never before in history has a candidate run for President with the idea that too many people have insurance coverage.” —On Health Care, Romney Goes Retro (via azspot)

May 28, 2012117 notes

“…You should enjoy and appreciate your days in high school, because you will remember them the rest of your life. LIke when you’re in prison, or you’re getting mugged at gunpoint, you can say to yourself, “Well, at least I’m not in high school.” High school is life’s way of giving you a record low to judge the rest of your life by.” —Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

May 27, 2012157 notes

May 27, 201214 notes

#Ashley Judd #Dan Wheldon #Dario Franchitti #Indianapolis 500

May 27, 201288 notes

May 27, 201221 notes

#Michelle Obama #Beyonce

“The First Lady also talked about her husband’s penchant for singing - a fact that should come as no surprise to most Americans, as President Obama has made headlines on more than one occasion with an impromptu outburst of song. (The president’s repertoire includes Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together,’ LMFAO’s ‘Sexy And I Know It’ and the classic, ‘Sweet Home Chicago.’) Barack loves to sing around the house, too, the First Lady told People. “He loves it in the shower in the morning, sings to the kids,” she said. “But it’s not a song. He’ll sing one line of something romantic or cute. Oh yes.” —Michelle Obama: President Obama tucks me in every night - NY Daily News

May 27, 201230 notes

“If you let one (truant student) run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest of ‘em? Let them go too?” —Houston judge Lanny Moriarty • On his decision to sentence a 17-year-old honor student, who (since her parents divorced and both skipped town) has had to work both a full and a part time job just to support two siblings, to spend a day in jail, after she missed school recently. Diane Tran, who also takes dual-credit college-level courses, says that she’s often so tired that she finds it difficult to wake up for school. But that didn’t sway Moriarty, who chose to make an example of Tran. If you think this sucks, we direct you to this Change.org petition. (via shortformblog)

May 26, 20121,671 notes

“And to those who joked that with her values and sports prowess, she should be dating the religiously devout NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, the biracial Jones replied cryptically: “Ask Tebow if he wants a glass of milk. If he says yes, ask him if he prefers chocolate. if he says no, then no more Tebow date suggestions.” —Track star Lolo Jones bashes critics after HBO virginity interview - LA Times (via brooklynmutt)

May 26, 201237 notes

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“When future historians write about the fall of the American Republic, they will of course lay primary blame on the extremists of the right, who set out deliberately to destroy it. But they will also lay heavy blame on all the “centrists” and Serious People who not only refused to admit what was happening, but ostracized and silenced anyone who tried to point it out.” —Paul Krugman (via azspot)

May 25, 2012449 notes

Listen

warrennotg:

Whitney Houston - “How Will I Know”

May 25, 201236 notes

May 25, 20121,445 notes

#Rahm Emanuel

“Vice President Joe Biden today delivered a deeply personal and, at times, emotional address to survivors of slain U.S. military service members, recounting his struggle with intense grief after his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident almost 40 years ago.

“For the first time in my life, I understood how someone could consciously decide to commit suicide,” Biden told a Washington gathering organized by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a non-profit advocacy group, to commemorate Memorial Day.

“Not because they were deranged, not because they were nuts, because they’d been to the top of the mountain and they just knew in their heart they’d never get there again, that it was … never going to be that way ever again. That’s how an awful lot of you feel.” —Joe Biden Reflects on Own Grief, Relates to Suicidal Thoughts - ABC News (via neon-loneliness)

May 25, 2012121 notes

“The institution of marriage is not under attack as a result of the President’s words. Marriage was under attack years ago by men who viewed women as property and children as trophies of sexual prowess. Marriage is under attack by low wages, high incarceration, unfair tax policy, unemployment, and lack of education. Marriage is under attack by clergy who proclaim monogamy yet think nothing of stepping outside the bonds of marriage to have multiple affairs with “preaching groupies.” —

Rev. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (via touchoftea)

(Pastor Moss is awesome, y’all.)

May 25, 20124,420 notes

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.” —Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

May 25, 201223 notes

“Me, he despised. He’d ambush me in the yard. He’d sidestep me as I cooked hamburgers at the grill, chase me after I delivered his breakfast of cracked corn and cheese. He had a way of crowing at the nearest window the moment that I picked up a call. “Buddy, shush!” I’d seethe. His face would twitch into a taunting smile and he’d scream again. So how to explain my growing admiration for him, for the way he seemed so content in his own feathers? He sprawled in the grass with the dogs, dug deep holes beneath a maple, and delighted when passing cars slowed down so kids could call his name. He ruled his world, our yard, so effortlessly that I often asked, as I shut the doors to his shed at night, “Buddy, how did you figure it all out?” —

A rooster leaves his flock - Metro - The Boston Globe

I’m not crying.

May 25, 20129 notes

#I'm totally crying #I'd go hug Arlo but he'd try to kill me

“I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.” —Winston Churchill (via politicalprof)

May 25, 201259 notes

Day 22: Broody Hen Update

1 dead baby chick.

1 rotten egg that I threw away this morning.

No live babies.

I am, obviously, very sad.

I’ve read she’ll keep sitting until she hatches something so if she chooses to continue today I might let her. If not? Oh well.

May 25, 201217 notes

“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.” —

(On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)

(via librariesandlemonade)

Will Smith, father of the year.

May 24, 201213,976 notes

thechickennest:

Day 21, tragedy strikes. At some point this baby hatched. My brother found it dead. Still waiting on egg #2 to hatch. They decided not to tell me over the phone and my dad mysteriously needed me to pick up Kleenex on my way home. He knows me so well.

May 24, 201212 notes

May 23, 2012113 notes

#Obama

my first day as a nanny

Disclaimer, this is not me bad-mouthing the family I’m working for at all. I love them and their kids. But it’s going to be an interesting summer for me personally. I was raised to be bored to death and like it. These children were not.

I’m already exhausted.