tatianasn:

Pavel and Evgeni in one Team! Awww!

GPOY: Reading Jane Austen’s Persuasion like it’s my damn job before my 10 a.m. British Literature class tomorrow Edition.

To be honest, though this book started slow, I actually am starting to enjoy it. I feel fucking horrible for Anne Elliot because everyone is such a jerk to her, but I have this feeling she gets what she deserves later on. I kind of can’t wait for that. And for her dad to like her. Assface. 

(This may be the start of my weekly 19th Century Brit Lit Book Club Reading Center if anyone wants to join me in talking about that kind of crap [that’s not really crap].) 

doctorwho:

Time Lord Man with two hearts survives double-sized attack

At first there didn’t seem to be anything unusual about the man who, in 2010, reported to a Verona, Italy emergency room. He was short of breath, sweating, and had low blood pressure – cardiovascular trouble, no doubt. E.R. doctors see similar symptoms all the time.

But this man was very different indeed. He had two hearts.

“We haven’t ever seen anything similar to this case before,” Dr. Giacomo Mugnai said in an email.

It turned out that a few years earlier, the man had undergone a procedure known as a heterotopic heart transplant. Unlike an orthotopic transplant, in which one organ is removed and another put in its place, a heterotopic transplant pairs a new organ with a diseased one.

“We see this in cardiac patients or kidney patients, sometimes,” explained Dr. Rade Vukmir, professor of emergency medicine at Temple University and a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians. “Surgeons might leave a kidney in place if it’s too much trouble to take out, or if there is hope for recovery of a kidney, or a heart, after a period of time” of being helped by the new organ.

In the case of the ailing Italian, reported in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, the transplant team had mated his new heart with his malfunctioning old one. Chambers and blood vessels of the two hearts were married so that the new heart could support the old one…. 

Reblogging only for the Doctor/Rory gif. So precious. And the Doctor does exist!!

Not-so-quietly becoming incredibly obsessed with this record. I’m about a day and a year late from all of my Richmond hipster counterparts, but whatevs. In love. 

tiffanyb:

oatmeal:

I made an animated GIF about Sopa

http://theoatmeal.com/sopa

Listen to the Oatmeal!

Every time I listen to Bon Iver, I think of driving through Provincetown with the windows down and the sun setting. I miss summer. I miss Annie. I miss how that drive felt. I think I’m going to have to go visit Massachusetts sooner rather than later. 

/Personal but whatevs. 

My impression of her is actually pretty good because… well, she sounds like she’s 12 and she’s singing into a hairbrush. It’ll be fun. And it also will be awesome considering my singing voice is about her range too, which is not very good. 

Hardest part: clever, satirical lyrics.