this is probably the best youtube video I have ever seen. and I have seen a lot of youtube videos. anderson cooper (who did not make my last top five list but who I would still gladly reproduce with - half indian, half silver fox/vanderbilt babies!) + adorable baby bear.

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I'm so deathly bored these days. I have such a monotonous schedule. I have to go ask for more hours at work because I'm either working or doing absolutely nothing. And I might as well get a second job, but nobody hires college-bound students for a summer.

Currently, I am obsessed with charm necklaces; especially from vespertine and velveteen.

So, plan A: Get my bachelor's in Asian Studies -- Arabic & Chinese -- from Mount Holyoke College.
plan B: If nothing works out, drop out of everything, leave the country for Europe, and learn music from gypsies and southern Europeans just like Beirut.

Woah. I had no idea that Freddie Mercury was Persian and grew up in India. My whole life has been a lie.

so I discovered with molly today a new hobby of finding low-rated recipes on foodnetwork.com and reading their bad reviews. it's hilarious. here are just a few ( Read more... )

I just found out that the University of Santa Cruz's official mascot is a banana slug.


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google trends is fun.

Haha. I love Ben-Hur. My favorite part is when Ben is about to die and the Mysterious Figure gives him water. Even though I've seen it about seven times now, I still go "Heeeey. Hey who is that? Ooooh man. Is that.. is that Jesus? Oh! Oh! It's Jesus, isn't it? Jesus!"

I have a valentine & a date, haha. I feel like a juvenile in the times when we cared about that sort of thing, and where it was mandatory for us to create a valentine-container for the other kids to place their cards with giraffes and various nickelodeon characters into; else we be the subject of suspicion for childhood depression or ( Read more... )

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