Jessica > Recent Status Updates

bro im so bored

the bets to penthouse as insurance policies oh my goshhh

on discovering pulsars, named it LGM 1-4, little green men

scientists had a sense of humour

"We often see a big increase in gaming time and addiction when families move, because moving when you're a kid really sucks. [...] Soon enough, their real life falls by the wayside because the community they have formed online feels stronger, more solid, and just more real to them than the so-called real world that keeps changing around them."

dr k casually describing my childhood

When you take that computer away from your child, you are thrusting them right back into the world of bullying and judgment. You're actually taking away the one place where they feel secure and confident in who they are.

Are there really people without resentment, without hate? [...] Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are unaffected by it?

yikes... potatoes and portugal. stuff and things. y-i-k-e-s.

im a dr k stan

i want to hear more about the doctor diary life
not sure about the positive psychology
and that was a shitty example with the candle

Isn't this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?

In the tedium of weaving mats and with the absence of iPods, storytellers emerge to relieve the boredom and songs arise to keep the fingers flying as if they remembered this, too.

Breathing in the scent of Mother Earth stimulates the release of the hormone oxytocin, the same chemical that promotes bonding between mother and child, between lovers. Held in loving arms, no wonder we sing in response.

The plants adapt, the people adopt.

equally interesting premise
equally goated writing
i'm buckled in

interesting premise and moral questions
goated writing
dreamy sequences
roundium brownium

"But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead." p 215

p.208
"The county council women are still screaming, as if they sincerely believe this is a constructive approach under the circumstances."

"Have a good day"
"We'll see"

p.190
Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn't.

What is the duty of humans? If gifts and responsibilities are one, then asking "What is our responsibility?" is the same as asking "What is our gift?"

tali is ove

It's named after the Greek legend of Hermaphroditus, who was said to be both male and female. He/she was the son/daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite, who it must be said had a pretty lazy system for naming their children.

Sometimes IN ORDER TO REMEMBER WE HAVE TO completely forget

Sometimes IN ORDER TO FORGET WE HAVE TO completely Remember

"Russians everywhere have a certain fellow feeling for anyone who's drunk, and in prison such people were even regarded with reverence. There would be something of an aristocratic element to drunken sprees in prison."

damn this stereotype is an old one
1860

"Are you doing a naughtynaughty, good sir?"

"you sound like a girl."
"laughing like a girl."

SHUT. UP.

"pinecone cousins."
"Nothing binds like pain shared."

hugging a rapist lel

"She bites a dog in the neck and punches it in the balls till it whimpers off."

pfft what the fuck hahaha

"my personal life became a hobby I never had time for" 🥺