>:[
this is the second time I've been at the VLSB computer lab and blasted my music only to find out it was coming from the computer and not my headphones. At least 5 people looked up and stared at me. VLSB, ATTACH THOSE HEADPHONES!!
my face is so pink right now :(
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
so no matter what you've been through
no matter what you're into
no matter what you see when you look outside your window
brown grass, green grass
picket fence or barbed wire
never ever puttin 'em down
you just lift your arms higher
raise until you're arms tired
let 'em know you're there
that you're strugglin' survivin', you gon' persevere
ain't nobody leavin, nobody goin' home
even if they turn the lights out the show is goin' on.
no matter what you're into
no matter what you see when you look outside your window
brown grass, green grass
picket fence or barbed wire
never ever puttin 'em down
you just lift your arms higher
raise until you're arms tired
let 'em know you're there
that you're strugglin' survivin', you gon' persevere
ain't nobody leavin, nobody goin' home
even if they turn the lights out the show is goin' on.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
jeez louise.
you remember how a few days ago I posted about Bieber's new haircut?
(not going to lie, he be lookin' pretty cute)
They decided to auction a lock of hair and it sold on ebay for a staggering $40,668.
I have pretty mixed feelings about this. To think that people would shell out so much money for a LOCK OF HAIR is a little upsetting. It capitalizes on the hierarchy of human value, and that some people seem to be worth so much more than others. Why? When we're all human, born with the (mostly) same anatomy and DNA. I guess its a great thing for JB to do though, since he ended up donating to an animal rights fund. STILL. When i get my hair cut, nobody ever offers to buy it. PEOPLE THESE DAYS!
(not going to lie, he be lookin' pretty cute)
They decided to auction a lock of hair and it sold on ebay for a staggering $40,668.
I have pretty mixed feelings about this. To think that people would shell out so much money for a LOCK OF HAIR is a little upsetting. It capitalizes on the hierarchy of human value, and that some people seem to be worth so much more than others. Why? When we're all human, born with the (mostly) same anatomy and DNA. I guess its a great thing for JB to do though, since he ended up donating to an animal rights fund. STILL. When i get my hair cut, nobody ever offers to buy it. PEOPLE THESE DAYS!
I just woke up from a 2 hr nap and had this bizarr-o dream. From it, i learned that
1) There is really something bothering me about going back to berzerk
2) My confidence in the future, while growing, is still greatly influenced by my perceptions of other people and how they view me. This needs to dissolve.
thats all,
awake from hibernation and hungry hungry as a hippo
-A
(LOL in part of my dream, I was eating alone on a rainy day at McDonalds. I had fries and a burger. This was not fun, and quite embarrassing when my friends said hi to me at the other table)
1) There is really something bothering me about going back to berzerk
2) My confidence in the future, while growing, is still greatly influenced by my perceptions of other people and how they view me. This needs to dissolve.
thats all,
awake from hibernation and hungry hungry as a hippo
-A
(LOL in part of my dream, I was eating alone on a rainy day at McDonalds. I had fries and a burger. This was not fun, and quite embarrassing when my friends said hi to me at the other table)
keep cheezin'
While meeting up with my GSI the other day, he introduced me to the idea of meditation and invited me to a meditation session in Santa Clara. Much to say about it in a later post, but here's one of the articles (http://blogs.forbes.com/ericsavitz/2011/03/22/the-untapped-power-of-smiling/) discussed during the post-meditation "Aha" sessions:
an intriguing UC Berkeley 30-year longitudinal study that examined the smiles of students in an old yearbook, and measured their well-being and success throughout their lives. By measuring the smiles in the photographs the researchers were able to predict: how fulfilling and long lasting their marriages would be, how highly they would score on standardized tests of well-being and general happiness, and how inspiring they would be to others. The widest smilers consistently ranked highest in all of the above.
Even more surprising was a 2010 Wayne State University research project that examined the baseball cards photos of Major League players in 1952. The study found that the span of a player’s smile could actually predict the span of his life! Players who didn’t smile in their pictures lived an average of only 72.9 years, while players with beaming smiles lived an average of 79.9 years.
..Charles Darwin, who in addition to theorizing on evolution in The Origin of the Species, also developed the Facial Feedback Response Theory, which suggests that the act of smiling actually makes us feel better (rather than smiling being merely a result of feeling good).
an intriguing UC Berkeley 30-year longitudinal study that examined the smiles of students in an old yearbook, and measured their well-being and success throughout their lives. By measuring the smiles in the photographs the researchers were able to predict: how fulfilling and long lasting their marriages would be, how highly they would score on standardized tests of well-being and general happiness, and how inspiring they would be to others. The widest smilers consistently ranked highest in all of the above.
Even more surprising was a 2010 Wayne State University research project that examined the baseball cards photos of Major League players in 1952. The study found that the span of a player’s smile could actually predict the span of his life! Players who didn’t smile in their pictures lived an average of only 72.9 years, while players with beaming smiles lived an average of 79.9 years.
..Charles Darwin, who in addition to theorizing on evolution in The Origin of the Species, also developed the Facial Feedback Response Theory, which suggests that the act of smiling actually makes us feel better (rather than smiling being merely a result of feeling good).
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