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Aura Dione | In Love With The World
“You're in love with a girl who's in love with the world Told you right from the start that I'm no 9 to 5 Not planning to stay Wish I could see you everyday, but I'm chasing a dream for a living You know it's a fact that my suitcase is packed Then I beg you to say: It's ok I can go to the end of the world And still be your girl ”
—In Love With The World by Aura DioneToo intellectually stimulated to do homework. Whoops.
A few friends and I have started an Infinite Jest book club modeled off of Infinite Summer, to be completed by the time DFW’s posthumous novel comes out on April 15th. Originally I had intended to be done in March with the tumblr book club, but it’s just going to be too much with school. I needed to space it out more, and I needed to do it with real-life people I could discuss things with in person.
We had our first meeting tonight and talked for an hour about the first 17 pages. It was beautiful. My head is swimming. This is what I wish all of my classes felt like. Everyone was honest and intelligent and beautiful. It was so much fun. I can’t wait to do it again next week!
However, now I’m supposed to read two chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions and it just pales in comparison to how wonderful Infinite Jest is and discussing it is. I don’t want to read it, I just want to go to bed and dream about Hal eating mold and his mother running around like a lunatic and my friends reading into it all of the messages about human compassion and picking up on the grander scheme even though a lot of them are first time readers.
“You’re in love with a girl who’s in love with the world And all I wanna do is spend a little time with you You spend all your time waiting Told you right from the start that I’m no 9 to 5 Not planning to stay, wish I could see you every day but I’m chasing a dream for a living.”
—“In Love With The World”, Aura Dione
Simply beautiful.
It was one of those nights, as I suspected it would be, that reminded me what it is to be amazed by running and the city and myself.
8.07 miles in 1:18:07, 9:41 min/mile pace. Apartment to Dupont to Farragut to National Mall, breezy and humid and strong the whole way. No stopping except for like 30 seconds at an unfortunately-timed crosswalk by the White House.
I may have said on here before that I’m not often proud of myself, but strong runs - long runs in particular - always remind me that no matter how much I try to say otherwise, I am incredible. The accomplishment of running for nearly an hour and a half simply blows me away, because I remember not so long ago when twenty minutes was something to be fought for.
Anything is possible when you trust yourself. Just let go and let the minor miracles happen. A straight eight in less than 1:20 is my minor miracle right now.
As I ran, I wrote, and it reminded me of something that said running is poetry. Tonight, I couldn’t agree more. I’ll prose it up over on the other Tumblr soon, assuming I remember half the stream-of-consciousness stuff my mind created.
And then I got on the bus and was massaging my leg muscles and felt like Marshall trying to seduce Lily with his calves. (If any HIMYM fans can find me this gif I will love you forever and eternally…) Jason Segel, you have some fierce competition right here.
Aura Dione - In Love With The World (Virtual Riot Remix)
Aura Dione - In Love With The World (Virtual Riot Remix)
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