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This poster...I want it. 

#welcome to night vale #cecil #carlos #one year later #too cute

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Guys. Really. I love that Welcome to Night Vale is so popular, but I can't help being a little upset. Tickets for the Chicago show went on sale today at noon. I was in training at work and couldn't get to the computer until 2. Guess what was all sold out by then?

In short, I am heartbroken. 

#welcome to night vale #heartbroken

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UPDATE: They are coming to Chicago which is close enough for me!!

So Welcome to Night Vale will be doing a midwest tour in March! I know we are just a footnote at the bottom of the page right now, but cross your fingers they come to Wisconsin!

#welcome to night vale #chicago #stoked

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So Welcome to Night Vale will be doing a midwest tour in March! I know we are just a footnote at the bottom of the page right now, but cross your fingers they come to Wisconsin!

#welcome to night vale #cecil baldwin #please come to Madison #wisconsin

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Pudding, as it turns out, should not be made with almond milk. Just a heads up. 

#pudding #almond milk #kitchen fail

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I don't think there are many other songs that use the word ass and are still classy, beautiful, and poetic. I wanted to quote one of my favorite lines in the caption here, but let's be real--the whole song is my favorite line. 

#this too shall pass #danny schmidt #danny schmidt is amazing #welcome to night vale #and now the weather #poetic #lyrics

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Watchin' some hockey. Crochetin' a hat. 

These are a few of my favorite things. 

#nhl #hockey #crochet #typicaltuesday

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1. Ariel by Sylvia Plath

2. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

3. The Muses Among Us by Kim Stafford

4. Poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Woolridge

5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

7. Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin

8. This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

9. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

10. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

I’ve been tagged by ablackberrywinter!

Once you’ve been tagged, list ten books that have moved you. Don’t think about it, just write what come to your head from your dear heart. Tag ten people to do the list as well!

(I’ve later realized that some of these books/authors are problematic...

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I think water is like the duct tape of the human body. Want to lose weight? Drink more water. Want to get healthier skin? Drink more water. Want to be a more healthy person overall? Drink more water. 

Just a tired thought. 

#water #duct tape #tired #random thoughts

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I haven't posted in awhile because...you know...nobody reads my posts...but I'm re-listening to Welcome to Night Vale from the pilot while packing up my belongings (for me new job *yay*) and I just have to note how amazing the podcast is. And Cecil. And Carlos and the Glow Cloud and the Orange Grove. Just...everything about this podcast is amazing. 

If you haven't listened, give it a chance. 

"No one does a slice like Big Rico, folks. No one."

#welcome to night vale #carlos #cecil baldwin #binge listening #big rico

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Yesterday I went to a NaNoWriMo kick-off party and before leaving work had this conversation with my co-worker: 

Me: Does this outfit look ok?

Co-worker: Yeah, it looks great!

Me: Good enough to wear to a party? 

Co-worker: Definitely!

Me: Where I hope to make lifelong friends?

Co-worker:...

In my head: This may be why I have so few of them... 

#NaNoWriMo #National Novel Writing Month #kick-off #writing #introvert

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Me to my boyfriend: Is my back sexy?

Him: I don't know. What exactly is a sexy back?

Me: I don't know...but Justin's bringing it.  

#justin timberlake #sexy back #pistolpete1world #pun #exactly

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This makes me think of all the movies out there where the heroine is a plain or unattractive woman/girl at the outset, but by the end of the film she's a super model. Why can't we have an ugly heroine just stay ugly? I think people are too used to the "good=pretty and bad=ugly" model. 

#beauty #illusion #leo tolstoy #yeahwrite #yeahwriters #reblog #tolstoy

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As someone who is very bad at talking to people, I have very few friends. Even worse, I have no writer friends with whom to share my work, talk about poetry and talk about writing in general. So if anyone wants to bond over poetry, feel free to shoot me a message. Please. 

#poetry #writing #friends #help

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Ode to the Blackhawks

So in the last 6 months or so I have become a big hockey fan. And since my boyfriend is a huge Chicago Blackhawks fan, I now call that team mine as well (I know, I know, convenient how that happened right when they were preparing to win the Stanley Cup again. But hey, that's how the timing worked out). I've never liked sports. I've just never understood what could be so exciting or impressive about them. And then hockey happened. And my world changed. Have you SEEN how these guys skate? Have you SEEN what they can do with a puck? It's amazing. The precision, the skill, all of it is amazing. And I find something about it incredibly poetic. The gracefulness against the constant fighting, the way a 6'7 man can pirouette delicately on the ice and then turn around and slam someone into the boards. Anyway, I decided to write about it. So here it is. 

  Ode to the Blackhawks

  They are the pinnacle 

of dichotomy. For who else, 

with their muscles massed like 

twisted branches, can walk on water?

  They live at the place where

solid meets soft; the apex

of the barbarian's brows, furrowed

and yearning. They live at the curve

of the ballerina's pointed foot,

as she supports her weight on a single

toe. 

  They melt the ice

with their breath, cut it

with their feet and carve their name

in the water so it stays. They feel the fame

like flames on their skin, and we,

and we,

we let the embers light our eyes and scorch

our lungs until the very stars erupt,

until the barbarian

and the ballerina inside us all 

emerge on the outside looking in

and this,

we say,

this is where home is.

#poetry #blackhawks #chicago blackhawks #pistolpete1world #hockey #graceful

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Andrea Gibson, Blue Blanket

#Andrea Gibson #Blue blanket #poetry #slam poetry #beautfiul #chilling

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Wow. Absolutely beautiful poem by Andrea Gibson. 

#andrea gibson #poetry #jellyfish