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This is just too cute.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:24:48 -0600

This is just too cute.

Music meme crap

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:17:00 -0600

Because I can’t resist. Stolen from Shelly.

RULES

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button (ONLY ONCE!!!) to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS - even if it is incredibly embarrassing.

1) IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY…
John Ondrasik - King of the Earth
Odd. I’ve never said that in my life.

2) WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?

The Pipettes - I Love You

So either I love everything, or just myself. Narcissit.

3) WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Come Around
…So I look for someone who doesn’t love me anymore? Great.

4) HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Gene Pitney - Town Without Pity
Haha yes. Chicago is a town without pity.

5) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Blake Lewis - Gots to Get Her
Well this is embarrasing. I hope “Her” is an euphemism for like…success or a boat or something.

6) WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Ray Charles - What’d I Say
I suppose. I’m smug like that.

7) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
The Faint - Birth
You think I’m a newborn? Thanks guys.

8) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Across the Universe Sndtrk - Girl (Beatles Cover)
Wtf playlist? I like guys! Guys!

9) WHAT IS 2+2?
Girls Aloud - Turn to Stone
I turn to stone at the thought of math.

10) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up to Dry
I’m a bad friend apparently.

11) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Beatles - I’ll Be Back
Surprisingly prescient.

12) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Travis - Big Chair
Haha true in a couple of ways.

13) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
The Blow - Parentheses
I’ll take this to mean I want to be an academic. Which is true.

14) WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Sergio Mendes ft. Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada
I don’t even know what that means.

15) WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Girl Talk - That’s my DJ
Hah! Somehow I don’t think that’s true.

16) WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Maybe that’s where the reception will be?

17) WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL
Tim Maia - O Caminho do Bem
Errr..ok.

18) WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
The Dukes of Stratosphear - The Mole from the Ministry
Spying?

19) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Michael Buble - Save the Last Dance for Me
I’m needy.

20) WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Our Monk - A Little Monk
I could become religious?

21) HOW WILL YOU DIE?
The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
Hmm…avoid Europe from now on.

22) WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
We Are Scientists - Cash Cow

Lies! I do not regret making money!

23) WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
The Killers - All These Things That I’ve Done

My antics do make me laugh. Trufax.

24) WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Voxtrot - Kid Gloves
…No. Although one time when I was a kid somone made fun of my gloves. I might have cried then.

25) WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Girl Talk - Summer Smoke
So I’ll get married in the summer but then the wedding will burn down.

26) WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
The Beatles - Can’t Buy Me Love
Prostitutes only do so much. Kidding!

27) DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
So I need to leave to find a love interest? I believe it.

28) IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Gwyneth Herbert - Sweet Thing

But I like sweet things.

29) WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
We Are Scientists - Textbook

Yes, my GRE study books are not high on my list of likes right now.

Random FB Note

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:43:10 -0600

hear-you-me:

6) WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Shakira - Hips Don’t Lie
Definitely NOT my motto

7) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Kanye West - Gold Digger
HAHAHAHA!!

10) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Reckless, absolute best friend forever :)

13) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Rick James - Superfreak
…HAHAHAHAHAHA

6 - Don’t Lie that’s totally your motto

7 -HAHA.

10 - I know this isn’t about me, but how freaky would it have been had the song been Only One??? Hahah remember are singing/screaming fests freshman year?

13 -Quoted for truth.

I’m going to do my own now so be on the lookout ho.

"On one level, it doesn’t quite seem real. On another level, listening to him speak, it seems..."

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:07:00 -0600

“On one level, it doesn’t quite seem real. On another level, listening to him speak, it seems like Barack Obama has already been president for some time.”

- Eric Liu, Author and former Clinton White House adviser at Politico

And the job hunt continues. Had one interview at least, although I didn’t get the job. ...

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:05:03 -0500

And the job hunt continues.

Had one interview at least, although I didn’t get the job. It’s okay though, because I even knew I was way under-qualified. Gonna just keep applying places though.

Also got a new bank account. And credit card. Fun stuff, let me tell you.

urgghhhh

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:08:01 -0500

Job hunting is a full time job (although to be honest, with me it’s more like a part-time job). I’m part frustrated with the search/ part frustrated with myself for not trying harder.

Also, I really need to change my bank, because I have like 5 checks I need to cash, and the nearest branch of my old bank is hundreds of miles away.

claudia: trappedintime: mudwerks: Commentators Can’t Stop...

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:43:48 -0500

claudia:

trappedintime:

mudwerks:

Commentators Can’t Stop Chuckling About the Crappiness of McCain’s Speech | New York Magazine

“If you saw John McCain’s painful speech last night, you, like us, might have thought dude looked like an actor who forgot his lines during an audition for a Depends Commercial and was just winging it. Talking Points Memo compiled the reactions from commentators to McCain’s “That’s Not Change We Can Believe In” speech, and it is pretty darn entertaining…”

I can only hope for five months of material this good. What an incredibly awful candidate.

Bwahaha. Last night was an awesome night to be watching cable news channels.

Things I have been doing instead of getting a job

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:11:50 -0500

1. Reading (very slowly) Wuthering Heights.

2. Watching How I Met Your Mother online. I’m only half way through season 1 right now, but I’m loving it.

3. Watching So You Think You Dance when it’s on.

4. Updating resume and looking up jobs to apply to without…actually applying to any.

5. Reorganizing all of our storage in the basement.

Tomorrow I will not let myself go to bed without having applied to at least 2 jobs. Seriously. No more down time allowed.

hear-you-me: I’m going to miss this Me too. September. ...

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:04:44 -0500

hear-you-me:

I’m going to miss this

Me too. September. Baltimore. Us.

So what do I do now?

Fri, 30 May 2008 19:29:00 -0500

So what do I do now?

The end

Sun, 18 May 2008 19:08:45 -0500

Graduating from college has left me an emotional mess. One minute I’m happy, the next I’m sad, the next I’m happy and sad simultaneously. I’m proud, I’m excited, I’m nervous, I’m scared, I’m ecstatic, I’m happy to not have to write a research paper in the foreseeable future, I’m relieved, I’m relaxed, I’m angry, I’m lost, I’m looking forward to the future, I’m giddy, I’m feeling 8 billion emotions at once.

But mostly, I just feel like I’m missing this place. These people. This thing that was a part of me for four years, that was my home when my real home fell to peices. It’s one of those things that you are never going to get back completely, and honestly….I wasn’t ready for it to end.

Ironically, I’m having a really hard time figuring out the structure of my paper on the end of...

Fri, 02 May 2008 01:52:38 -0500

Ironically, I’m having a really hard time figuring out the structure of my paper on the end of structuralism.

I totally always come back to tumblr when I should be writing papers in the library. Although...

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:02:15 -0500

I totally always come back to tumblr when I should be writing papers in the library. Although technically I am not writing a paper tonight, just doing research for a paper I’m going to start tomorrow. A paper that I’m pretty sure is going to kick my ass, because I’m still not really sure what it’s about. Vaguely: Structuralism, the end of man, Derrida, Tati, the rupture between structure and event, the beginnings of post-structuralism (maybe ?), and I don’t know what else. I think I need a thesis. Yes, that would be good. The problem is, I keep just saying “oh yes, I need to research this further” and then I never do.

Bleh. On another (more positive) note, my dad finally got a job! Only 9 months later than expected, and less money than he was hoping, but hey, it’s better than nothing. Now I just need to get myself one of these job things….But that can be a concern for after graduation I think. Sometimes my lack of worry worries me.

I was sitting in 7th Street Cafe this morning, reading for my Loss of Traditional Faith class later...

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:51:00 -0500

I was sitting in 7th Street Cafe this morning, reading for my Loss of Traditional Faith class later in the day, sipping my Chai Tea Latte, listening to Maritime on my iPod (how’s that for setting the scene?), when a flyer was placed in front of me.

Human Rights Awareness Tour, it read. Lots of bright colors, a schedule of events for the coming week.

My immediate response (thought, not spoken):

What is this nonsense? Universal human rights? Those simply do not exist!

I think my university education has affected my ability to live in this world. Or is that the point?

gregcbrown: Kanye West - Homecoming Ft. Chris Martin (offical...

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:10:18 -0500

gregcbrown:

Kanye West - Homecoming Ft. Chris Martin (offical video)
Baby do you remember when… Fireworks on Lake Michigan…

I love this song. I love my city. I miss my city.

So I’m checking the headlines at CNN.com in an effort to further procrastinate writing my Loss...

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:40:00 -0500

So I’m checking the headlines at CNN.com in an effort to further procrastinate writing my Loss of Tradition Faith paper. And I can’t help but think….there must be a writer for one of the 8 billion Law and Order shows out there doing the same thing. Except where I go “Oh how sad, a dad killed his three kids in a hotel room while in a custody dispute with his wife”, the writer is thinking “Hmmm…this could make a great episode”.

Widow/Orphan control on Word

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:30:07 -0500

Why????? Why would you want it? It makes my papers look ugly!

Also, who decided double spacing was ideal? 1.5 is so much prettier, and there’s still room to write comment!

soupsoup: hilker: seriouslythough: This was calling to me....

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:45:19 -0500

soupsoup:

hilker:

seriouslythough:

This was calling to me. Really, it has my (screen) name on it.

(via Cupcakes Take the Cake).

I keep telling myself this.

It’s true!

I feel like living in a fairy-tale today. Instead I will go to a three hour class and discuss...

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:44:07 -0500

I feel like living in a fairy-tale today.

Instead I will go to a three hour class and discuss Piaget and Kohlberg’s ideas on the stages of moral development.

Sometimes life isn’t fair. Oh wait, I think Piaget has something to say about that….fuck.