reach for the (a) stars

Guys, this is really important. Until now, Google collected your data, but did not attach your name to it. Now, they can, and will. This new thing they’re doing will allow them to collect your data across searches, your email, Youtube, Maps, Google+, and all their affiliates, and build a complete profile of YOU.

If that doesn’t bother you, maybe this will: they own and can sell all that data, including anything you create and send (artists and writers, take note).

There is a way you can opt out of this ridiculousness. It’s described in the link, but if you’re still not sure about it, please ask me and I’ll guide you through how to turn all this off.

unless i go to chemotherapy.

please help.

gofundme.com/helpkichona

BTS — Bon Voyage Season 3

do not re-upload, please give credit for gifs/edits. thank you! this post will be updated weekly, within 2 hours after airing.

READ ME

Ep 1: Subs / Google Drive (↑) / Google Drive (↓) / Dailymotion  Ep 1 Behind: Subs / Google Drive / Dailymotion 

Ep 2: Subs / Google Drive (↑) / Google Drive (↓) / Dailymotion Ep 2 Behind: Subs / Google Drive / Dailymotion

Ep 3: Subs / Google Drive (↑) / Google Drive (↓) / Dailymotion Ep 3 Behind: Subs / Google Drive / Dailymotion

Ep 4: Subs / Google Drive (↑) / Google Drive (↓) / Dailymotion Ep 4 Behind: Subs / Google Drive / Dailymotion

Ep 5: Subs / Google Drive (↑) / Google Drive (↓) / Dailymotion Ep 5 Behind: Subs / Google Drive / Dailymotion

Ep 6: Subs / Google Drive (↑) / Google Drive (↓) / Dailymotion Ep 6 Behind: Subs / Google Drive / Dailymotion

(via Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15) by Yao Xiao

This came in at the right time. And from a program that I’ve been watching since i was a 12 year old girl.

This is such an important message. Because I know there are many 20-somethings in the same position as me; down on their luck, stuck, options dwindling and forgetting their dreams.

Trying to learn a second language? This list of amazing YouTube channels for learning languages and understanding their cultures will provide you with quality learning experiences and entertainment. Check out these channels to get started:

Spanish: Senor Jordan https://www.youtube.com/user/tontitofrito/featured ButterflySpanish https://www.youtube.com/user/ButterflySpanishola/featured SpanishSessions https://www.youtube.com/user/SpanishSessions/featured Agustin Iruela https://www.youtube.com/user/papitus/featured

French: Learn French with Pascal https://www.youtube.com/user/lsfrench/featured Alexa Polidoro https://www.youtube.com/user/learnfrenchwithalexa/featured CornerFrenchBistro- https://www.youtube.com/user/CornerFrenchBistro/featured Comme une Française https://www.youtube.com/user/CommeUneFrancaiseTV/featured FRENCH FROM BEGINNERS TO ADVANCED https://www.youtube.com/user/imagiers/featured Francais avec Pierre https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVgW9ZQaGBk6fsiPgE2mYDg/featured

Portuguese Street Smart Brazil https://www.youtube.com/user/StreetSmartBrazil/featured Learn Portuguese with PortuguesePod101.com https://www.youtube.com/user/portuguesepod101/featured TheFunnyBrazilian Mau Scatolini https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFunnyBrazilian/featured

Italian TomTxxytu https://www.youtube.com/user/Txxytu Tia Taylor https://www.youtube.com/user/tiataylormakeup Learn Italian with Lucrezia https://www.youtube.com/user/lucreziaoddone Dolce Vita https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSQ8QsPEIc4c6vHrWyc-5iQ/featured Alberto ITALIANOAUTOMATICO https://www.youtube.com/user/ITALIANOAUTOMATICO

Japanese Rachel & Jun https://www.youtube.com/user/MyHusbandisJapanese Abroadin Japan https://www.youtube.com/user/cmbroad44 Learn Japanese From Zero! https://www.youtube.com/user/yesjapan/featured That Japanese Man Yuta https://www.youtube.com/user/YPlusShow/videos Tae Kim https://www.youtube.com/user/taekimjapanese/featured Micaela ミカエラ https://www.youtube.com/user/Ciaela/featured

Chinese Yangyang Cheng https://www.youtube.com/user/sloppycheng Fiona Tian https://www.youtube.com/user/aCUPofTEAwithFI/featured learnchinesewithemma https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb_VywVZDG2TWhVh-2mwqeQ Off the Great Wall https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDOffTheGreatWall Learn Chinese Now https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtjhXzMNWJxcytxa7kkAH5Q

This cool little website, called readlang, allows you to upload your book, in your target language, from epub form into their website, right? And you just read your book from there. When you don’t know a word, what do you do? Do you go to google dot com and type in that word? Nope. You fucking click it. And it tells you the word. 

Hello, people! The time has come: I will teach you the secret to study for three days and remember everything for your test. This is a hardcore studying session so I would recommend to only do it when you are truly freaking the fuck out. Now, I must tell you: It’s gonna involve some hard work, so sit comfortably because we’re about to start:

REMINDER: YOU DON’T NEED TO DO THIS IN A ROLL. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE DURING THE  COURSE OF THE DAY. 

REMINDER 2: REMEMBER TO EAT, DRINK WATER AND GET ENOUGH REST. YOU DON’T NEED TO FORGET ABOUT YOUR HEALTH IN ORDER TO GET BETTER GRADES. 

DAY 1

First reading of your main textbook

Second reading + highlighting 

Research more about the topic (internet, other books, talk to your friends, etc)

Resume everything (notes)

Do a mind map of main points 

If what you’re studying needs something to be memorized “word by word” (such as: meanings, processes, references, chemical reactions, etc), write it down and put it on your wall. You’re gonna read it several times during the day. 

Write down the topics and key words on a reference paper (you’re gonna take this paper everywhere, forcing your memory to expand from those simple key words) 

Review your notes 

Do ten exercises (questions)

Review your notes + exercises 

Watch a video class 

You’re done for today. Good job. Now rest, tomorrow is a new day. 

DAY 2

Review your notes

Read them out loud

Read them again, but this time record yourself

Listen to it. Twice. 

Review your notes before bed

DAY 3

Review your notes + listen to your recordings from yesterday

Do 30 exercises (questions)

Review notes + exercises 

Listen to your recordings again

Review your notes one more time.

FANTASTIC JOB! Now it’s your time to rest. If you’re feeling like it, read your notes one more time before bed. 

One more time, this is a heavy studying session, and not supposed to be done all the time. Remember to take care of your health and take several breaks during the day. If you don’t need, there is no need to do everything listed here. 

My aunt is over sixty, never married, and never, so far as I am aware, ever even had a great romance.  She dated a lot, but never clicked and now seems to have given up.  My mentor is over seventy, divorced her asshole husband more than half her life ago and has never found anyone since.

We all know women (and men) like these.  And because we know them, we know that “one day you will find someone,” is just … hogwash.  Because sometimes you just … don’t.  Or sometimes you do, but he turns out to be a cad.  Or you do and the universe rips you apart in the most unfair way possible.  And because society has us so fixated on finding “our other half” or whatever, we view these women as cautionary tales.

But … 

My aunt trains dogs.  Her schipperke is the national champion for his breed.  She spent so much of her life as a librarian, nurturing the love of books in kids, myself among them.  I ride horses because of her, and it’s one of the very few things I do that makes my soul feel at peace.

My mentor is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in her state.  She has devoted her life to fighting to ensure that everyone gets a vigorous defense.  Because of her countless people have had the opportunity to turn their lives around.  Because of her, they’ve had a life to turn around.  Because of her, the prosecution and the police in her jurisdiction are forced to behave ethically and adhere to the rule of law.  She’s still, even now fighting to abolish the death penalty.  It’s because of her that I am pursuing the life I am.

These women’s lives are not nothing.  In fact they are a whole lot of something, and it makes my heart hurt that I ever, in my dark 3 am’s, thought of their lives as something to be avoided at all costs.

So love your family, your friends, your pets, your gardens.  Love your job or your hobby or your raison d’ etre, whatever it is.  Love sunsets and the smell of rain and yourself, and don’t love these as something to do as a placeholder until the buzzing, romantic love comes, but love these as things worth loving all in themselves.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.