I just wanna say “well shoot” in a southern accent without sounding like i’m mocking people.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Growing up Catholic had a lot of fun elements like for example at the age of 7 I thought I was going to Hell because I had a crush on the dad from Arthur, who was married

Ridiculous that in 97 years they’ve never given an Academy Award to the single most important person on every film: whoever takes the lens cap off

the unprofessional behavior of my coworker is unmatched

why must i continually stay up until midnight on Fridays and book pilates on saturdays at 8am? You think I would learn from this by now.

Here’s the part of the story when a spunky journalist finds out the extreme corruption from within and every single one is fired. Any day now…

Every time a cabinet pick is asked a question it reminds me of my middle school students when I asked them to turn in their assignments. Blank stares.

I’m trying to avoid the news but it seems to find me

A white mug with that super angry li’l frog from that viral video who is spherical and whose war cry is “meep!!” Above & continuing below him in black text it says “My tummy hurts & I’m mad at the government”

Mood

C'mon, guys

i’m v obsessive and it for real bugs me that there’s no apple podcast wrapped.

thankful for spaghetti and chocolate mousse

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Saw the movie “A real pain”, and interested to hear thoughts about it. I thought the movie was speaking about the younger American Jewish experience and generational trauma.

Trying to read more books in light of the reality we are living in. Just finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow andTomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Great book.

still thinking about how my wonderful people showed up to the Washoe County Commissioner meeting yesterday to talk about how much libraries mean to them.

…and the one dude that said libraries are probably just a passing fad… lol ok bud

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last night i asked tommy about differentiating and he said he didn’t remember and tbh i questioned our whole relationship

i feel 95 here but i’m up with the times and i did it