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| a few notes on the tv shows ive been watching lately.
americas next top model.
This is the most immature group of girls ive ever seen in the second half of the season, for any cycle of the show that ive watched. their interactions on the set and off the set are so very middle school, from the way they collectively treat heather to the way they had trouble delivering lines in the covergirl commercial. i think this cycle has been a lot less demanding, and hasnt been forcing them to develop a varied portfolio. almost every shoot involves looking "fierce" instead of a range of looks, and it feels like there have been fewer runway challenges than there were in the past. i dont know that i feel any of the top 5 could be americas next top model.
project runway
was it just me, or were the previews for the second episode from a completely different show than the one they actually aired? none of the drama in the preview ads appeared in the actual show. other than that, there has not been enough time in the season to really develop a lot of opinions. the only designer i cant imagine getting aufed soon is chris march, because hes like the narrator or the greek chorus to the episodes that have aired so far. he gives us the gossipy back channel we really want to hear about.
a lot of people have opinions about christian, but i just watched the part where he said he would totally leave before carmen because the design was his and he owned up to it. that was awesome.
sarah jessica parker. was really annoying when she was talking to the designers and while they were pitching their pieces. it sounded like she was trying so hard not to step on anyones toes or disappoint anyone. i began to wonder if she was going to stand up for her own opinions at some point if it meant telling someone their design sucked. but when it came time for the runway, she said exactly what she meant but without sounding like a two faced bitch who is nice to your face but slams you when shes with the judges. i was impressed.
tim gunn's guide to style
wow. i wasnt too impressed with the first few episodes, but this latest ep with gina the retired cop was the happiest, most positive thing ive seen on tv in a long time. veronica and tim really started harmonizing off each others personalities, and gina was just so optimistic and irrepressible it was almost a joyous experience to watch her so gleefully made over. it was just straight up HILARIOUS when she talked to tim about her bras for god knows how long. i dont usually save guide to style on my dvr after i watch it, but i had to save this one to watch as a pick me up after a long day at school.
gossip girl.
only five more episodes! no more after january until the writers strike is over! im not even sure what it is i love about gossip girl, i just know that i do. i remember reading the first book and thinking it was so sickeningly depressing, but i guess i got over that somewhere along the line.
super mario galaxy
not a show, but has been taking up a significant amount of my time this thanksgiving break. im pretty engrossed in it, and you should prolly ask me about it later on once i finally get some distance from what im doing. all i know now is that im a little bit obsessive and i get way more invested in it than a sane person should.
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| what a day
the highlight of my day was giving my chemistry lecture today. we're really running out of time to cover this chapter, but i still decided to give one last shot at explaining how avogadro thought of diatomic molecules to explain the experimental results of gay-lussac. i wasn't expecting to cover much more than that today, so i didnt have any further lecture prepared for the next section, on the discovery of the electron. however, we got through diatomic molecules, relative atomic masses, and even all the way through the electron stuff in one class period. and it felt soooooo good. i love talking about chemistry and physics so much more than biology. it just makes me so very happy.
today we also had a health seminar thingy about breast health and breast cancer. and when the doctor was telling us about how we can maintain our best health to avoid increasing our risk for breast cancer, she went through all the normal things of not smoking and not drinking too much. then she went right through good nutrition and eating organic to avoid pesticides and onward to don't drink out of nalgene bottles because they leach bad chemicals into your water.
i started feeling a little defensive about my constant companion in nalgene form, and wondering what i would say to people if they brought up that i shouldnt be drinking water out of it. prolly something about saving the planet from disposable plastic bottles.
then people started sending emails with links to organizations supporting the disuse of nalgene bottles. and then i started hearing people talking about the best places to find stainless steel water bottles to replace their nalgenes. and im thinking, hey, my nalgene is kinda new and it was a gift! im not ready to throw it out NOR am i convinced its bad for me.
so i did a quick literature search, looking for the most recent articles or studies on the topic. i found this article (linked here as a pdf) from Practical Gastroenterology, May 2007. I feel like this article lays out the issue pretty well in terms of what different studies have found and what the potential risks are. so if everyone else gets caught up in 'plastic bottles give you breast cancer', i feel fine continuing to use my own nalgene bottle.
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| i guess i really did need to sleep all day saturday, because I had plenty of energy today and yesterday, unlike most days last week.
saturday i woke up late, then fell asleep reading shortly after noon. I was so groggy when I woke up part way through the nd football game that I had to make another pot of coffee. after the game we went out to dinner, and i fell asleep again not long after that. the ratio of time spent on couches to time spent not on couches was greater than one, and thats not good.
sunday on the other hand, was incredibly productive. lesson planning, grocery shopping, cleaning, car maintainance. got it all done yesterday.
today our school started the accreditation process, and i had one visitor observing my 10th grade chemistry class. it was a long day, with a full length faculty meeting followed by a grade level meeting, but i still had energy when i got home to work out on the total gym! though its so dark so early now, i wonder how long this energy will last.
time for dinner.
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| I have come to a very sad realization.
it happened this morning, while reading a post in one of my favorite movie blogs, kung fu monkey. He wrote about the writers strike in hollywood, being a movie writer himself (among other things). why strike? he asked, "because the cake is a lie." I recognized this as a reference to the video game Portal, from another blog I read about gender, sex, and video games called Heroine Sheik.
when kung fu monkey wrote that he only expected nine of his readers to get the reference, i started feeling like im in a very lonely place. Those people who would get it are people who play lots and lots of video games, and would have already played Portal which only just came out for PC and XBox in october, and hasnt yet been released for PS3. I, on the other hand, do not play video games.
I am a video game geek who does not play video games.
sure, im a casual gamer. i play brain age2 and animal crossing on the nintendo DS. I play trauma center and guitar hero on wii. but nothing in my level of game play should allow me to get references about cake and lies. instead its my obsessive level of blog reading, finding blogs with a high geek quotient about language, gender, politics, and just generally funny stuff.
::sigh::
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| How convenient. I was soooo sleepy all afternoon, and fell asleep wtih the cat on the couch before dinner. still groggy after dinner, i dragged myself to the computer to do some grading. well, now that im done with that, i'm wide awake of course. and its bedtime. oh well.
last week i got an email from one of my professors at penn, asking if he could use an essay of mine as an example of an A paper for one of his assignments. That just about made my week, if not my whole month.
wedding planning is going. . . well. going well in that now its actually going. kelly's visit was just about the best thing that could have happened in terms of wedding planning, talking with her made it so much less scary. especially since it was coming from someone i know "gets" me.
now its finally bedtime. i miss my blog. do you miss me too?
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