Ok, not really.  It's been a great thanksgiving (oh my goodness, I love real mashed potatoes made with butter and cream....) and I'm really not thinking about my stupid paper (stupid 15 page paper which shouldn't be that bad except the professor is an idiot and thinks we all have 15 years of experience in the field which we don't and he hasn't ( Read more... )

So, I don't know why, but lately i've been watching a lot of "Hart to Hart" episodes.  And I know the show isn't that great, and that it can be (very) sexist at times, but I (like most of the audience when it was actually on tv) just love the relationship between Jonathan and Jennifer, and the believable chemistry between Robert Wagner and Stefanie ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting on the couch, mindlessly studying for my midterm on Tuesday and it's not going well (perhaps 'cause I'm doing it sans mind? anyways).  Studying consists of vainly trying to memorize a bunch of irrelevant powerpoint slides.  I'm rather fed up with studying.  So I turn on the TV to see if there is anything good on, and what do I see ( Read more... )

So, was Shakespeare right after all? What with the whole "what's in a name" speech from Romeo & Juliet, and how we often say people look like their names, or don't look like their names. There seems to be some sort of stereotype/s associated with certain names, and I'm wondering if those stereotypes have any influence on the people who get those ( Read more... )