Ah, so you were that girl I had a total crush on but was afraid to talk to. I always wondered what happened to you!

Kudos indeed, and, if you don’t mind, let me start 2017 by saying kudos to you and kudos to me. Kudos to all of us!

I shopped my feelings this year, and made VIB Rouge for the first time, too.

a simpler time, back when i truly believed that spending an hour writing my name + her name a thousand times in a row was a good use of my resources.

All for a relationship that’ll be over by the end of the school year.

This is what bibles looked like in the Middle Ages when they were still being hand-copied by monk scribes. All decorated with pictures and shit. Stick that in your pipes and smoke it, haters.

Right? I was trying to math how long it would have taken and it has to be like 200 hours if she spent 10 minutes on each page. This girl is in looooove.

Personal beliefs aside, that is an impressively thoughtful and work-intensive gift.

I’ll hold your earrings.

Richard Madeley told a story once about a woman who was in her car in a queue at London traffic lights and Faith was on the radio, and she was singing along, chair-dancing, finger-drumming on the steering wheel, all of that, and whoever was in the car next to her beeped and she looked over and it was George Michael,…

oh he’s like #47 on my list, if that. he only gets it if the men on the following list all say no:

zach braff is on my list of hot celebrities. he’s right up there with john mayer.

Hamilton won the Electoral College though.

none of us has the fucking rank to ask about Shelly.

The Brontes’ juvenilia is pretty great but Jane Austen’s is the best.

I’ve always loved Jane Eyre. I also love Villette for it’s non-typical happy ending. I relate to Charlotte Bronte’s heroines, who are awkward and a bit prickly and often feel not quite good enough. And yet are also aware of their own best qualities.

Checks need to go away.

if the people who surround you aren’t appreciating you for who you are, then please spend more time around us - we know quality folks when we see (read) them!

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