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Just me, a soul making my way through the void which is life in post-school reality, living in the city of Philadelphia and doing my best to keep boredom at bay on a regular basis. Much crap will be posted here in which my FB friends would likely not put up with. Cheers!
Neuroanatomist and stroke survivor Jill Bolte Taylor talks about what it is like to have a stroke. We watched the first 10 minutes or so of this in my Psycholinguistics class this morning (the professor commented: “You know she’s a hardcore scientist because she thinks it’s a fascinating opportunity that she has a stroke”…makes me glad I’m just a linguist; we don’t have to risk death to learn about language first-hand!). Watch it. It’s fascinating stuff, and she obviously has a very unique perspective. Hooray for science, woo!
A video on perspective, decision, understanding, and life.
Thought-provoking stuff goes well with this quote:
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…a church….a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of our attitudes.”
-Charles Swindoll
this is about to be me
This was magical.
If you ever needed a reason to follow @TheDailyShow, this is it.
Here’s the original segment, in case you missed it.
(via mermaidxcore)
Interesting Zoning in the Town of West, Texas, Site of the Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
(photo via reddit)
Simcity fail
