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got it.
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jelly beans are intriguing and deceptive. it’s a terrible combination. i don’t enjoy jelly beans. not really, anyway. sure, they’re a little bit cute. but they’re small and lacking of substance, and they leave me with a general feeling of unpleasantness that sits heavy in my belly-area. and yet when they’re around, i just can’t quit them. it’s as though i feel i ought to test just one more to be sure my feelings about them remain the same. i do carefully select those i subject myself to. even though i’m pretty positive i won’t appreciate any that i choose. despite how great-looking.
you’d think i’d have learned by now that i just need to accept it. jelly beans aren’t for me.
…and suddenly i’m acutely aware of how the relationship i have with jelly beans isn’t entirely dissimilar from the relationship i have with the collective men-i-tend-to-date. lovely.
I want to live with Eames.
A full-scale steel-and-glass replica of Charles and Ray Eames’ living room, part of the Pacific Standard Time project. See the real one in Eames: The Architect and the Painter.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via misswallflower)
Hezah, 26
To preface this, let me just catch you up to speed about one of my best friends, Brandy. She is insanely smart, laid back, fit, independent, gorgeous, has an ass that just won’t quit….oh and she’s a NBA cheerleader. If she’s going to die alone, then we are all fucked.
Brandy,…