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Which Social Theorist are you?
Harriet Martineau
Congratulations! You are Harriet Martineau. You were raised in England in the first half of the 1800’s. The product of Progressive parents, you developed “radical” views supporting abolition, labor unions, and women's suffrage. You never married but wanted to be called "Mrs." because of the respect denied to a single woman. (From: The Real World, by Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein.)

Caffeine makes one feel as if one was trudging through time in slow-motion. Certain things acquire a weird shade of humour as well. Watch out for your morals, and have some manners, young punk! I do not know why I just typed that. I do know that I am mentally and emotionally drained. There will be better days, should the whimpering ever cease.

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Oct. 30th, 2011 05:26 am
methrowrock: (DBSK!)
Late at night, when I cannot sleep, I write letters to you in my head. Dozens and dozens of them, complete with crisp lines and the loose tendrils of drying ink. Fountain pens, with curved golden tips, I imagine that you would like the quaintness of them, and the way the words unreeled from a spool of molten gold. Satiny and persuasive; perhaps, you would feel the cursive of my feelings wrapping around you like morning mist. You would feel a little chilly, but all the more, you should embrace those words, shimmering and shivering like young ghosts. Because without you, they have nowhere else to go, except to haunt attics with whispery echoes and sigh softly whenever the night-winds swirled in with a fancy foxtrot or two. And that is what they have been doing all this time. Why do you think that the wind-chimes murmur so? The leaves rustle with unheard secrets, and wizened from their woe, choose to shrivel up in a fetal contortion (the reverse way as it sprouted, be kind when you rewind) and leave their fates with the wind once more. You would giggle, as they crinkle and crunch right under your unseeing feet. All the better to set the thoughts alight then. You would be warmer that way.
methrowrock: (Air Balloon)
One of my favourite feelings is to be sitting in a bus while it is raining. The initial hesitant free-fall, the incessant pitter-patter, the rampant rat-a-tat-tat: your personal orchestra right there and then. And then, there is the latticework of rain-streaks on windows that smoothens out the edges of the concrete scenery. There is a delight in knowing that you are sitting there, toasty and unaffected in a capsule of warmth, and passing by the world lashed by surly rain and gusty winds. The tenuous demarcation between the controlled and uncontrollable (the here-versus-there) makes all the difference. It is also nice re-discovering the human subservience to nature. Despite the technological advances, cloud computing and whatnot, we are still at the mercy of those pregnant rainclouds. Waiting at the fringes of shelters, rancid frowns on faces, girlish squeals as school-kids race across the road (green light, of course) in soaked canvas shoes, yeah we are there and doing that every single time. And we are all trying to get home, bobbing from one diaphanous bubble to another.



what we most want is bad for us we know )
methrowrock: (Air Balloon)


blah-blah-blargg )
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why. so. serious? )

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