June 2012
57 posts
Connect Me
Christopher Norman
Connect Me - Christopher Norman
May 2012
72 posts
All Professional, a before and after
Summertime, a wonderful abyss of time in between school years. Typically spent at the beach and vacationing by teens and young adults who have the luxury. I do not have that luxury and have been working/bracing myself for the start of summer training. A few days ago I was hoping that my contributions could be simply emailed into work, such naive hope. Unexpecting and unprepared I arrived at work looking like:
a solid “post-rehab Lindsay Lohan” on the hotme$$-o-meter. To remedy this appearance I sent mascara and moisturizer to war against my face (que Lord of the Rings action music). And viola! All prim and proper and professional:
Keeping the mess at bay ladies and gentlemen. Applause is welcomed.
WHAT IT'S LIKE BEING A HEAVYWEIGHT
And I’m like,
courtesy of foxycoxy
it is really going to suck trying going lightweight.
“Sing me lullabies at dawn when I’ve been up all night painting the wind to remind myself that things are moving.”
—Andrea Gibson, from “Stay” (via weissewiese)
Play
Hand Covers Bruise
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross ft. Rainy Mood
Hand Covers Bruise + Rainy Mood
I mixed Hand Covers Bruise and a section of the Rainy Mood track into one mp3 file! For convenience so now you can listen to it on your iPod and be sad everywhere all the time. Download here.
this is perfect
“The average annual operating cost of a bicycle is $308, compared to $8,220 for the average car, and if American drivers replaced just one four-mile car trip with a bike each week for the entire year, it would save more than two billion gallons of gas, for a total savings of $7.3 billion a year, based on $4 a gallon for gas.”
—Pedaling to Prosperity: Biking Saves U.S. Riders Billions A Year - Forbes (via t-ry)
Listen
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they’ll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now, but we’ll stay.
“I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via arpeggia)
