You Make My Dreams

Currently Listening To:
Song-- You Make My Dreams (Album Version)

Artist -- Hall & Oates

From-- (500) Days of Summer soundtrack

This song makes me want to prance down the sidewalk snapping my fingers in a chorus line. Or, like in the movie, join a giant spontaneous dance number in the park. It's such a fun song.

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"Fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live - for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken … fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe." -Steinbeck

To Live...

"Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem." -Whitman

Love

"The world we live in will either be better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."
- The Alchemist

Epic Snow Day

The Greek community at OU is split up into North and South Greek (according to where our houses are located in respect to campus), and today we had an epic North Greek v.s. South Greek snowball fight.

Well, first it started as a snowball fight between the SigEps (a N. Greek fraternity), Theta, and Chi O (both N. Greek sororities).

Hence, the SigEps (note the flag) laying siege on our house...

Then they ran off to lay siege on Theta down the street...

Of course, that was short lived, and the group (pretty much led by the guys) ran on down to South Greek, crossing busy streets en masse and banging on the doors of all the sorority houses along the way.

After our saunter around South Greek, banging on doors and throwing snow at the passing cars (again, I'll blame this on the guys), we headed back up to North Greek. Just as we arrived, we noticed that a few from South Greek had assembled and followed us back, taking up our previously-broadcasted challenge.

We totally won.

Tired, cold, and happy, we returned home.

(I'm in the yellow boots.)

We de-layered out of our snow-caked clothing...

(This was supposed to be a "Look at all our stuff!" picture.)

(Please admire our leggings and tough faces.)

... and rewarded ourselves for all the hard work with hot chocolate. And extra mini-marshmallows.

My Home

Pretty, isn't it?

Well-Spoken

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as some day, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.” - J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger Passes

“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”-J.D. Salinger

-------> I wonder if they'll honor his wishes...?

Morgan Freeman on Racism

I have a lot of respect for Morgan Freeman. Here is a segment from an interview where he discusses racism and Black History Month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO214IFRW1M&feature=player_embedded

A "Plumper" Golden Globes

After the Golden Globes, articles sprang up everywhere (as they do every year) to discuss who wore what on the red carpet. One particular article on a New York Times blog stirred up a lot of controversy by discussing how some actresses looked like they had put on a little more weight and how the new curves looked sexy (also implied: more healthy).

Another article (on CNN) takes the position that readers misunderstood the message of the blog (that a little bit curvier looks a lot better than stick thin), saying that many got up in arms about the semantics of the story.

The end of that article has a very interesting-- and VALID-- point about actresses.

Although she makes a living on watching the industry, Harrington believes that we're missing the point on why the actresses were at the Globes in the first place.

"They're no longer about who wins what; they're about the two-hour pre-show. When you go online, you want to look for who wore what and how they look in it," she said.

Part of the problem, she said, is that we've gotten used to the idea that actresses should look like models -- to the point that actresses, and not models, are prominently featured on magazine covers.

"[The media have] realized how marketable Jennifer Aniston's face is," she said, "and it's overwhelmed what they actually do, which is acting."