hooray. finally let out of the house. was woken up at 11 with xiz on the other side of the phone. (xiz: "we're outside your house!" me: "0_0") met up with jen mag xiz at phoenix and we went to beauty world to get mag's uniform. hmm. shall abstain from $#@!%!@#$#@-ing the quality of service.
then we had lunch, jen went off, and we came back, to xiz's house. had a fun time there, i introduced them to ad's game (and sat there gloating away whilst they clicked their way through the first stages.) finally we got to the part i didn't get past last night, and together, we....finished it! ok and plus a little tipping from the forum. nice game=) no violence, the only morbid part consisting of the disk box trapping that..head. no..little/big green men chasing after me with laser guns trying to shoot my head off....hmm. but fun nonetheless=) well done can't believe we actually did finish it=)
so while we were playing, xiz's mom was hard at work hemming our skirts up for us. =) danke schoen
when we came out it was quite late...so i had lunch with her family and mag went home.
just a few passages from "100 essays from Time", regarding issues which i have been interested in describing, but "couldn't-have-put-better-in-my-own-words" (or so i thought, at 4am in the morning.)
Rosenblatt's the male response to rape:
- "...but gang rape does not need to recur frequently to remind men of their own peculiar frailty. and that reminder brings terror...one as benumbing in its way: that of acknowledging one's natural potential for violence and destruction"
- "was not that you, so m any years ago, standing on the sidelines while that other boy was bullied in the playground? or you in the crowd that razzed the old drunk in the park? or you in the rear when they set fire to the cat? child's play, possibly, but boy's play primarily; and the child becomes the man. if you have cast off most of the cruelty of boyhood, still some of the fascination with cruelty remains..."
Allis' what do men really want?:
- "the same women who complain about male reticence can grow uncomfortable when male secrets and insecurities spill out"
- "as always, men are defined by their performance in the workplace...if women have suffered from being sex objects, men have suffered as success objects, judged by the amount of money they bring home"
- "...words that make Farrell wonder, 'why do we need to earn more than you to be considered worthy of you?' "
- "...'it is stupid to conclude that the empowerment of women means the disempowerment of men,'..."
hmm interesting. good for gp.
Sharpiro's confessions of an ivy league reject:
- "twenty-five years ago this month, harvard said no. so did yale, princeton, dartmouth, columbia and williams. i can still see my 18-year-old self standing by the mailbox in stunned disbelief, holding six white envelopes. six anorexically thin white envelopes. the precise wording of the form letters has been lost to history, but i can still conjure up their face-saving phrases like 'many strong candidates' and 'very difficult decisions.' reading them one right after another, it seemed like an ivy league chorus was cheerfully wishing me 'the best of luck with your college career.' best of luck, that is, as long as i enrolled somewhere else."
(aww.....)
- "i am pretty much the same person i would have been had harvard said yes-or had dartmouth written apologetically to say that the envelopes had been switched at birth and i was really a prince, not an educational pauper. yet i wonder. my own sense is that those rejection letters changed me in ways that i am still hard-pressed to define. total defeat is never easy, especially when it comes so suddenly so young...but mostly i prefer to think it toughened me, taught me humility, trained me to value what i accomplished on my own...."
Leo's (this guy is hilarious)what's in a nickname?:
- "everyone knows that sports teams must have nicknames, but selecting an appropriate one is fraught with peril."
- "alabama, for instance, may be proud of the Crimson Tide, but it sounds like a bloodbath or a serious algae problem"
- "in general, nicknames are supposed to come from two categories: animals that specialise in messy predation (lions, sharks, falcons and so forth) or humans famous for rapine and pillage (pirates, buccaneers, vikings, conquistadors, bandits, raiders etc). the image of mangled flesh must be evoked, but tastefully, one reason why there are no teams named the Massacres or the Serial Murderers."
- "not every team, of course, can be accused of seeking overly aggressive names. the new york university Violets or the Swarthmore Little Quakers do not induce terror. at Transylvania College, the team nickname is not the Neck Biters but the Pioneers"
...alot of other funny stuff...
- "three team names celebrate disasters that destroyed much of their native locale: the Golden Bay Earthquakes, Chicago Fire and Atlanta (now Calgary) Flames. Such a breakthrough in reverse civic pride may yet induce other cities to celebrate their local disasters. Just think. The Boston Stranglers, the NewYork Muggers, the Washington Scams, the Los Angeles Smog..."
harharharharhar=)
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