corbin dewitt

eighty degrees. been wearing sundresses for days. school ended two weeks ago and i pulled a 3.9, the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:35:04 -0400

eighty degrees. been wearing sundresses for days. school ended two weeks ago and i pulled a 3.9, the highest GPA i’ve had since my freshman year of high school. all that hard work paid off, evidently.

but now it’s my last full week with the people i love. i’m remembering the summer after my senior year of high school –– how i became part of a tribe of eight or nine feral and joyous teenagers, and spent all my time lazing on friends’ floors and eating in all-night diners and kissing people i shouldn’t. it’s starting to feel like that again, except older and wiser. all week we’ve been lounging and drinking and wandering and cooking. we went out to a classy restaurant last night and sat on the patio under tiny strings of lights, and everyone’s faces looked grown-up and beautiful. at the end of the meal someone said “this would be a good moment for a meteor to hit the earth.” and everyone else agreed. the boy i love held my hand quietly. everyone was at perfect peace.

i’m the only one who isn’t graduating and i’m scared. sure, i’ll still have friends –– good ones, even –– but the people who defined this place for me are leaving. it’ll be a whole new landscape without them, and i’m afraid that new landscape will happen as a sinkhole when they leave next week.

guess where i am.

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:03:33 -0400

guess where i am.

I took a 7 week coast to coast road trip after being laid off...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:33:43 -0400

I took a 7 week coast to coast road trip after being laid off from Boeing. I didn’t have a camper but realized that being able to pull off the road at a rest or truck stop was the way to go to make the trip affordable. With a few sheets of 1/2” plywood and misc. hardware this is what I came up with. The effort was well worth the time and materials.

this is pretty fucking perfect. i’d do this. except for that whole burning-gas thing.

finished my video. now i don’t know what to do with myself. my hands are restless. i feel like...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:47:08 -0400

finished my video. now i don’t know what to do with myself. my hands are restless. i feel like i’m supposed to be making something.

i want to spend the rest of the day doing exactly as i please, but what is that?

oh god, it’s dawn

Mon, 13 May 2013 05:33:07 -0400

oh god, it’s dawn

today i have worked for more than twelve hours straight on my final project for physics. it is due...

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:54:00 -0400

today i have worked for more than twelve hours straight on my final project for physics. it is due in seven more hours. i need to have at least a 20min video, and right now we’re looking at 17:48.

fuck. fuuuuuck.

compiling a summer reading list. get at me, tumblr. what’s not to be missed?

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:13 -0400

compiling a summer reading list. get at me, tumblr. what’s not to be missed?

Coffitivity - Increase Your Creativity!

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:41:17 -0400

Coffitivity - Increase Your Creativity!:

Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work! Coffitivity is the virtual solution to research showing moderate ambient noise helps enhance creative cognition!

i tried this, and oh my god, it’s amazing. if the café or library is closed and the silence of your house is oppressive and distracting, put it on. it’s magic.

tea and hashbrowns, the midnight snack of champions.

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:38:13 -0400

tea and hashbrowns, the midnight snack of champions.

i've been dealing with a lot of stress with finals too, your post really helped me with a rough time. it is nice to see i'm not the only one, though of course i'm not. i couldn't count the amount of emotional breakdowns this semester has given me with finals it's like ten-fold. ugh

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:44:00 -0400

hello there –– i’m glad you were reassured by the post. i feel like it’s important, now more than ever, to remind yourself that all of the people around you are also only human, including professors/TAs/students who seem like they are flawlessly smart. you are not alone. hang in there, kiddo.

finals anxiety. i hurt all over. i forgot to eat a meal for 24 hours. at three AM i was immobilized...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:28:21 -0400

finals anxiety. i hurt all over. i forgot to eat a meal for 24 hours. at three AM i was immobilized with fear and nerves and p. asked me if he could read me a bedtime story and i said yes, and started crying, and fell asleep listening to the sound of his patient whispering voice reading me david brin.

i have an 8 page french paper due tomorrow at noon. i have to fill out and mail a set of financial aid forms by friday. i have to take a final physics quiz by sunday at noon, and i need to finish shooting and editing a 20-minute video for the same class by monday at noon. i’m about to email the TA for my utopian fiction class to see if i can get a two-day extension on my final paper which would otherwise also be due monday at noon.

baby steps. i can do this. i have to do this. now is not the time for you to come back, totally paralyzing emotional malfunctions. not now. i’m busy.

sup tumblr my hair’s real glamorous right now

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:31:00 -0400

sup tumblr

my hair’s real glamorous right now

(made up by fletchingarrows. reblogged from proudheron.) 1. how do you take your coffee? no sugar,...

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:19:00 -0400

(made up by fletchingarrows. reblogged from proudheron.)

1. how do you take your coffee? no sugar, lots of cream –– though not very often, lately.

2. what is your favorite seasoning to use in cooking? fresh rosemary.

3. what is your new favorite article of clothing? an exquisitely simple wheat-colored linen sundress, knee-length with skinny straps. eight dollars at the secondhand store downtown.

4. what is an old faithful article of clothing for you? the dark grey trenchcoat i bought in montreal when i was fifteen.

5. what’s your favorite quote (under ten words)? “les temps sont dûrs pour les rêveurs.” -eva, le fabuleux destin d’amélie poulin

6. what do you do in the first ten minutes after waking up? roll around under the comforter, look at the light coming through the window, wonder what time it is, wonder if i should go back to sleep, kiss the boy.

7. what are you reading right now? depressingly, nothing except a lot of articles about physicist hugh everett III and some critical essays on agnès varda. fuck you, finals week.

8. it’s a hot day. what’s your refreshing drink of choice? water, probably.

9. what’s always on your grocery list? butter. everything else fluctuates according to season and taste. but always, always butter.

10. if you could change your name, what would you change it to? this one, i suppose.

theclotheshorse: Decades photographed by Mason Poole these....

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:56:33 -0400

theclotheshorse:

Decades photographed by Mason Poole

these. two. looks. forever.

callmekitto: bearonstilts: thranduilscreed: roaminromans: gatsby plays baseball the great...

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:00:45 -0400

callmekitto:

bearonstilts:

thranduilscreed:

roaminromans:

gatsby plays baseball
the great batsby

Gatsby wears hats
The Great Hatsby

gatsby works at an animal shelter

the great catsby

Gatsby makes onomatopoetic sounds imitating instruments to jazz music

the great scatsby

gatsby is responsible for distributing bubonic plague across europe

the great ratsby

re: slope day tomorrow.

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:44:19 -0400

re: slope day tomorrow.

coffee and flowers.

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:44:00 -0400

up early for work today. can’t focus. when it gets hot outside i always think of the word buzz, the noise of bees or cicadas, or of napping, those two z’s the cartoonish indication of sleep –– a drowsy trailing-off sound. buzz: being roused from the nap by the sound of a distant lawnmower. or buzzed, like high. in the summer i always want caffeine and nicotine and alcohol, sunshine with a side of eyelash rainbows and hazy edges, the whole world a bright mesmerizing sensual blur. today’s my last class of the semester. four finals, then i’m cut loose.

if anyone needs me, i’ll just be over here weeping.

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:12:00 -0400

if anyone needs me, i’ll just be over here weeping.

30.

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:20:00 -0400

like the walking dead,
you said, a sad
ophelia, a shell. well
let me tell you––

i can’t tell you. form
over function, but
my big eyes are blind
and i’m basically useless.

wake to whiteness,
clean sheets, a bed
of crushed petals, head
a blank slate.

tomorrow a new month.
tomorrow i’ll say it
out loud. tomorrow,
may. m’aidez?

the hilarious irony of scrolling idly past pictures of galaxies on tumblr while trying to ignore a...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:56:00 -0400

the hilarious irony of scrolling idly past pictures of galaxies on tumblr while trying to ignore a physics lecture that is 100 percent pictures of galaxies