I've been saying forever that Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is the best book ever-- Time magazine agrees!

quiverfull

i am fascinated by the whole quiverfull movement, as evidenced by my obsession with the Duggar family. They are the subjects of several TLC one hour specials like "Fourteen Children and Pregnant Again!" and "On the Road with Sixteen Children." Not only is it creepy to have so many children, the whole uber-religious homeschooling is just so interesting.

best thing ever

so funny.

So... circumcision may reduce the incidence of HIV in Africa, but articles like this totally ignore the fact that the practice has so many downsides. I wish articles like this would still ask the question, is it worth it?


And finals are over, so now i can blog all day!

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Dinner: H went to Five Guys in Georgetown and brought me a cheeseburger... so nice. I love having dinner delivered during finals.

Didn't set off Apt Building-wide Fire Alarm: everytime I move into a new apt, the previous tenant cleans the over with a product that makes the oven smoke the next time it is used. Like clockwork, I used my oven last night for the first time (yes, I have lived here for a month and it was the first time). The smoke alarm went off while the oven was heating up, the cats panicked, I opened the window and fanned the air by the alarm with a pillow and it finally shut off. Crisis averted, thankfully.

Clarity in Paper-writing: I wrote the most challenging part of my paper yesterday and fortunately, everything just clicked. I was a paper-writing machine and I think I was fairly articulate.

three things

So late last night I was reading my friend J's blog. Apparently she read the same random article I saw a couple days ago because she made a list of three happy things-- this is supposed to make you more aware of positive life experiences and be happier in general. I don't want to use the blog function on myspace, so hence, here i am.

--Whole Foods: I went to WF yesterday because I am going to make my favorite salad. I looked around a million times and couldn't find bleu cheese crumbles... they had every other kind, but not that. So I asked a woman at the cheese counter and she said, "oh, we just got a shipment TODAY, it's in the back, just a minute." she went in the back of the store to the stockroom and was gone for like ten minutes. She came back with a big cardboard box, sliced it open, and handed me exactly what I needed. I was just so fortunate that I didn't have to walk to a different grocery store and it seemed like good luck that she knew what they had gotten that day, etc etc.

--Technology: yesterday I woke up and my new cable tv was reduced to a black screen. I called tech services, had them remotely reboot the system, no change. So I was on the phone waiting to talk to a technician (I was a little annoyed as I got a total of ten hours of working tv since it was first installed) and the automated voice said it would be 14 minutes before my call would be answered (but they appreciated my call). As I was waiting, I started searching online and figured out what was wrong and how to fix it myself. I got to hang up before I even talked to the technician. Then last night in the wee hours of the morning, my internet stopped working suddenly. I decided to just go to bed and hopefully it would be fixed today. Woke up: no internet. Again, fixed the wireless myself. Still no clue why both randomly stopped working, but both are fixed, thank goodness.

--Friendship with S: My friend S is my best straight female friend. She called me last night and we had the best conversation ever, like always. So much shouting, so much laughter. I'm really amazed how well we sustain a long distance friendship and just how wonderful she is-- it is a rare thing to have a gorgeous friend make you feel beautiful. Actual S quote: "the first time I saw you, I thought you looked exactly like my high school homecoming queen, you have that all-American midwest beauty. But then the more I was around you, I realized you have an exotic beauty too." I quote her not for the truth of her statement, but just to demonstrate the extent of her friendship generosity-- most women aren't like that, they hold their cards close. There's so many other reasons why she is wonderful, but I'll cut it off here.