just to say i love

nelle. twenty-five (when i remember). student (& unsure, really, how to be anything else). nyc (but perpetually homesick for wherever i'm not).

composed primarily of words, coffee, tea, dreams, not-enough-sleep, the collision of dissonant worlds, breathtaking music, a tenacious belief in magic, laughter, echoes, whispers of history, the smell of the world after it rains, & punctuation.

So I got a job at a tea shop in order to help with expenses whilst studying for the Bar without having a job that distracts me too heavily (also, I really miss working in food service).

Anyway, before orientation starts, I’m doing some training modules online. I just got to a bit about all the different tea blends, and under Earl Grey, it says: ‘Careful! If you drink too much of this tea, you will turn into Captain Picard from Star Trek. :)’

…yeah, pretty sure I’m going to love this job.

:tea is the solution: :time and space: :i am a nerd leave me be: :welcome to the niche corner:
foreignaffairsmagazine: Writing a final paper? Every Foreign Affairs article has a “Cite!” button that automatically generates the citation in 3 different styles! This makes me want to write a final paper. (I’m sure that feeling is not at all affected by the fact that I actually have to take six exams.)

foreignaffairsmagazine:

Writing a final paper? Every Foreign Affairs article has a “Cite!” button that automatically generates the citation in 3 different styles!

This makes me want to write a final paper.

(I’m sure that feeling is not at all affected by the fact that I actually have to take six exams.)

:i am a nerd leave me be: :welcome to the niche corner:

on reflection, this was an unnecessary clarification

  • B, a Professor: 'What are you listening to?'
  • Me: 'Les Misérables.'
  • B: 'Oh, really?'
  • Me: 'Yeah! I love it; it reminds me of my childhood. ...because I listened to it a lot growing up, not because I like, lived through the revolution.'
:les miserables: :i am a nerd leave me be: :'who looks at tongs and thinks this could be a little more sonic?': :'well i've got a banana and in a pinch you could make meringue.': :'never had a long night? never had a lot of pancakes to flip?': :okay i'm stopping now but YOU GUYS i do not pay enough attention to alton brown clearly: :alton brown: :lovelovelove: :geekery: :i am a nerd leave me be: :kitchenventures:
dear world: you have failed me. just to put you on notice.

dear world:

you have failed me.

just to put you on notice.

:evita: :i am a nerd leave me be: :open letters:
  • Me: I've come up with the perfect name for our dog.
  • Younger Sister: What?
  • Me: Weslee. Spelled with /ee/ at the end.
  • Younger Sister: ...
  • Me: And then when she barks, we can be like, 'Shut up, Weslee!'
:i am a nerd leave me be: :welcome to the niche corner: :star trek:

I JUST HAVE A LOT OF PEELINGS!

— orange with a really thick rind

:orrrr the response i gave myself in my orangiest voice after i scolded my breakfast for being so hard to peel: :i mean that's a ~possibility: :welcome to the niche corner: :i am a nerd leave me be:
Ongoing Operation Learn How to Fill In My Eyebrows Disguise My Vulcan Heritage is officially the most successful it’s ever been. Shockingly, I’m even actually going somewhere tonight. With ~other people, even!

Ongoing Operation Learn How to Fill In My Eyebrows Disguise My Vulcan Heritage is officially the most successful it’s ever been.

Shockingly, I’m even actually going somewhere tonight. With ~other people, even!

:gpoy: :i am a nerd leave me be: :the difference in color between my face and my neck is genuinely absurd: :also you can't see what i'm wearing but i fear i am overdressed: :mostly because i haven't done laundry in ages so options are limited: :but also because i am overly concerned with how i look tonight FOR REASONS:
eternal8song: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are bread I now want to serve a whole meal like this. The Epic of Gilgamash. Lady Windermere’s Ham. Angel Food Cake in America. Othjell-o.

eternal8song:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are bread

I now want to serve a whole meal like this.

The Epic of Gilgamash.

Lady Windermere’s Ham.

Angel Food Cake in America.

Othjell-o.

(via the-green-lentil)

:i am a nerd leave me be: :i just really love puns okay: :i realize gilgamesh is kind of odd one out here but it was too good to pass up: :the internet is my favourite:

further conversations from work:

  • Me, after not understanding a reference from 'Airheads': 'Oh, sorry, I haven't seen that film.'
  • RA: 'Of course you haven't. "Oh, I'm [Nelle]! I don't watch any movie that doesn't have aliens or spaceships or black holes in it!"'
  • Me: 'That's not even true. But you forgot lasers. I need laser weapons in my sci-fi.'
  • RA: 'One of the best things about you is that you don't even have to try to keep a straight face when you say stuff like that.'
:quotable: :i am a nerd leave me be: :time and space: :look i just think katniss and bathsheba would get along really well: :obviously their worlds would be so hard to reconcile: :but it could work somehow: :i am a nerd leave me be: :far from the madding crowd: :the hunger games: :bathsheba everdene is my spirit animal:
even doors get lonely sometimes

even doors get lonely sometimes

:colourful objects saved: :i am a nerd leave me be: :i like it in the city: :new york city:
halfadams: This crew consistently has the best t shirts. period. this wasn’t my childhood at all, but it makes me want a shirt like this with bookshelves filled with books by authors whose surnames spell out home schooled — or something like that. (does that even make sense? if i had a lick of that kind of talent, i’d draw it; alas!)

halfadams:

This crew consistently has the best t shirts. period.

this wasn’t my childhood at all, but it makes me want a shirt like this with bookshelves filled with books by authors whose surnames spell out home schooled — or something like that. (does that even make sense? if i had a lick of that kind of talent, i’d draw it; alas!)

:i am a nerd leave me be:
lost gray pants brooklyn, you are the adorablest. (they probably just ran off with the pale green pants with nobody inside them; it’s going to be okay!)

lost gray pants

brooklyn, you are the adorablest.

(they probably just ran off with the pale green pants with nobody inside them; it’s going to be okay!)

:allow me to persist in making literary references scarcely anyone else ever understands: :i am a nerd leave me be: :i like it in the city: :i don't know why i find this so freaking adorable but i do: