Wish You Were Here!

I decided what I'm giving up for Lent:

Until Easter, I will not use any plastic bags to carry my purchases from any sort of store. You may think this lame but.... whatever. I'm not really catholic anyway. Just for the record, I WAS considering giving up caffeine but I like to make goals I can actually achieve.

Completely unrelated:

I read a very interesting article entitled "Can You Hear Me Now?" by Sherry Turkle which discusses how technology today has made us more alienated from one another. Facebook, CrackBerrys, email, cell phones-- these these having seemingly made us more connected but at the same time they have changed the nature of relationships between people. Why talk when you can text or email? And how many of us have put a conversation with someone right in front of us on hold to answer a text or call? How many of us have had that done to us? There are certainly benefits to the information age, but I think that no technology can replace the fulfillment of human to human interaction. Maybe I should give up my cell phone for Lent.... Anyway, if you have a minute read the article. It will make you want to get rid of your Facebook account and throw your cell phone in the trash-- or maybe it will make you realize how dependent you are on these things. Let me know what you think....

Mardi Gras

translates to Fat Tuesday, which happens to be today. Sadly, New Orleans was not the site of our Mardi Gras activities, nor was the popular mammometer part of the festivities. However, thanks to Sars diligence, gumbo was on the menu along with a cake that had a little octopus hidden inside instead of a baby. Now that Fat Tuesday is over, I must think of something to give up for Lent that starts tomorrow. The obvious choice to no more junk food, but since I'm already off sugar, that doesn't seem to be good. I have tossed around the thought of no caffeine BUT......... let's be honest. Not gonna happen. So I'll sleep on it and figure it out tomorrow. Maybe I should give up procrastination....

Happy Mardi Gras!

Of Swings and Things

While walking to school this morning, I had a sudden urge to jump on a plane and go somewhere warm so I could read my book. Remember the Bill Bryson book I was so excited about? Yup. Pretty sure I'm on h-ing chapter 3 because I barely find time to breathe, let alone do some unassigned reading. Let me describe exactly where I wanted to be: sitting on a porch swing somewhere east of the Mississppi reading my book. It's about 7:00 in the evening-- the warm summer day has cooled to a pleasant temperature and dusk is just setting in. My dog is napping just next to me after a hard day of running through the fields, there is no sound of cars, and in the backyard, there's a large plot of garden ready to be harvested starting the next day. *sigh* A girl can dream, right? On second thought, I prefer not to call this a dream because how many times to dreams actually come to pass? Let me rephrase: A girl can plan, right?

I think I get this dreaming/planning tendency from Chuls. For the past 10 years, one of Chuls' favorite past times has been to look up real estate in western PA/upstate NY and try and convince my father, or any one else for that matter, to buy. But I always have to ask myself: would I really be happier if I had those things? Or do I think I would because it's not what I have right now? Whatever the answers to those question, I still like to plan for that day when I will have what I think I want.

Something like this would work...

H.W.

it seems that this weekend, i've been finding just about anything else to do besides my homework. this post is a case in point. and now it's 11:30 sunday night, i have class at 9, and i haven't done a lick of homework all weekend. go. me. but that's not to say that my weekend hasn't been productive. i saw byu's production of "tartuffe," bonded with rugby teammates at a part saturday night, and i bonded with my family today. that can't be a total waste of weekend, right? however, i am finding that my motivation to do my homework is dwindling just a month into the semester. i need to find it quickly.

for the month of February, i, along with some friends, decided that it is no sweets month. i am excited for this actually. it's time for a little detox. shall i try and be ambitious and go for no caffeine too? no. i think not.

i'm running out of things to say which means my time for procrastination is up. until next time...

p.s. watched part of the grammy's tonight and came to the following conclusions: p!ink is oh so sophisticated these days, lady gaga is insane (but talented), but above all: beyonce. is. amazing.