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It's like Silent Hill waiting to happen:

"As W.Va. Coal Companies Expand, Graves Go Missing."

Creepy.

So I was thinking about something odd.  My mother, at my age, wanted to get as far away from Kansas and her parents as possible.  She goes all over the world.  Yet when it's time for me to go to middle school and high school, she comes back to ( Read more... )

So my mother and I are watching Adaptation.  If you haven't seen it, it involves a lot of orchids.

My mother suddenly laughs at something in the movie.  "The song!"

"What is it?"

She starts singing.  "Wild, wild orchids..."

Me:  "What?  Really?"

"Yeah, it's the Stones!"

"... isn't it 'Wild Horses'?"

Silence.  "Are you sure it's 'horses'?"

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I'm never sure how I feel about studies like this. I definitely spent at least 3-4 hours a day watching television starting in middle school - a number that's gone up with time - and starting late middle school, probably 2 hours on the computer (that number has obviously gone up to like, twelve since starting college). And I'm not an obese, ( Read more... )

Holla.  Day after Thanksgiving, I'm back at school after spending the holiday with Kim's family in Queens.  We saw Twilight.  Twilight was pretty special.  It was like a TV movie with really bad make-up and acting.  In addition to, of course, being a vampire movie that completely lacked in scares (except the bad relationship kind) - but I've ( Read more... )

So I had a really intense Colonial Encounters class and for the past couple hours I've just been shaking and trying not to vomit.  I don't think I even articulated my point clearly in class because I was so upset.

Oddly enough, it took me a couple years to make the connection between Season of Migration to the North and my own family.

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I think I just watched the best episode of Law & Order: SVU ever.  I know, I didn't think it would happen either.  Yes, it still had a few classic SVU faults, particularly revolving the stupidly-intensifying Olivia-Stabler-Kathy triangle, and of course they smashed complicated things into one primetime hour, but overall it was insanely ( Read more... )

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For some reason I am extremely attached to this song that I only hear at iceskating competitions, because it's this Canadian team's free dance music - the soundtrack to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a depressing musical movie about figurative town mice and country mice, composed by Michel Legrand.  Well, really, I'm only attached to the last thirty ( Read more... )

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