“Made-up stories matter. They bring us pleasure and solace and nurture empathy by letting us see the world through others’ eyes. They also help us to feel unalone, to understand that our grief and joy is shared not just by those around us but by all those who came before us and all those still yet to come.”
—John Green, http://www.goodreads.com/group/87031-ask-john-green—-january-23-2013/comments/16696978
January 2013
1 post
December 2012
3 posts
November 2012
1 post
Untitled: Girl Meets World →
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First of all, let me say that you, the fans of Boy Meets World, have been awesome. That word is often used incorrectly by people, including myself, on a daily basis but you have truly been awe inspiring. You, yes, even YOU, are the reason that Girl Meets World WILL BE MADE. J
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So much love.
October 2012
1 post
September 2012
1 post
August 2012
3 posts
Play
July 2012
3 posts
2 step guide to having a beach body!
1) Have a body.
2) Take it to the beach!
June 2012
3 posts
May 2012
11 posts
April 2012
10 posts
Current minor annoyances: a list
- When people post pictures of their positive pregnancy tests on the internet. Like, you peed on that.
- Incorrect use of the word “infamous.”
- Unhelpful and unnecessary abbreviations.
- Specifically, “prego”
- Also, “the hubs” and “hubby”
- The attitude that children are major drags to be avoided at all costs (I’m looking at you What to Expect When You’re Expecting movie)
- The attitude that children are designer items only rich people can/should have.
- The attitude that women who have never had a child before (like me) can’t possibly make informed decisions about birth, breastfeeding, diapering, parenting etc. I greatly appreciate advice from moms who have been there, but smugness and condescension don’t help.
March 2012
11 posts
Personhood
Augustus, my unborn baby, has his own (state issued) health insurance card. It arrived in a separate envelope from mine, addressed to “Infant Badger.” Yet, he is supposedly not a person. This makes no sense to me.
The pro-choice argument that “a fetus is not a person” is one I have never been able to wrap my head around. At what point does one become a person. How do we define personhood?
Ability to survive without medical intervention? To breathe on one’s own? That rules out a good portion of the population, including the sick and some elderly.
Ability to reason and think complexly? Once again, this definition leaves out newborns, the mentally disabled and some suffering from mental illness.
Location? A baby’s physical location inside my uterus means that he is somehow less of a person or not one at all?
Neurons have been firing in this baby’s head for months. He already dreams (mostly dreams about the inside of my uterus, probably). He can recognize my voice and already responds to certain sounds.
Just some things I’m pondering this 27th week of pregnancy.
Vanderbilt University Fails to Understand Freedom of Speech →
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“Vanderbilt University has decided that campus student religious groups may not require that their leaders accept the core beliefs of the religious group they would lead. Ironically, Vanderbilt’s right to do so rests on the same freedom it denies to these groups—a group’s freedom to define what it stands for and the views it expresses.”
“The reason why Vanderbilt may discriminate against religion is precisely the same principle of freedom that Vanderbilt denies to religious groups on its campus—the freedom to form its own expressive identity. Vanderbilt purports to be liberal and tolerant of different views. But its university officials do not appear to understand what this means. They think the university is being open-minded by requiring student groups, including religious groups, to conform to university officials’ view of orthodoxy. This is not so much hypocritical or cynical (though it may be that as well) as simply embarrassingly ignorant. Vanderbilt does not appear even to recognize that its actions are intolerant. It thinks it is protecting its community from improper influences, just as it once thought that segregation protected its community.”
This is not okay. Yet, of course, the mainstream media is silent.
“Ask me not, then, whether I am a Catholic or Protestant, Calvinist or Arminian. As far as they are Christians, I wish to be a fellow-disciple with them all.”
—John Adams (via itsmebethanyy)
Gary Ross on not making Catching Fire 3D
Interviewer: Is 3D something you’ll even consider…
Gary Ross: No. Absolutely not.
Interviewer: Why’s that?
Gary Ross: I don’t think it’s appropriate for this film. Um I don’t.. I think that if we shoot this movie in 3D, we become the Capitol. We start making spectacle out of something, that I don’t think is really appropriate here. There needs to be an aesthetic distance here, because of the nature of the material.THIS MAN IS BRILLIANT.
Thank God.
“The true way to overcome the evil in class distinctions is not to denounce them as revolutionists denounce them, but to ignore them as children ignore them.”
—G.K. Chesterton in Charles Dickens (via gkchestertonquote)
