This should be number 1

But just to be stubborn, I’m going to make it number 11 or something.

What not to do when you’re supposed to be studying or writing papers

1. Check your email repeatedly even if you know it’s a sunday and you’re probably not getting anything important or even anything unimportant.

2. Sign in to both of your facebook accounts and get annoyed that all people do is take quizzes and that the people you actually care about aren’t updating their facebooks.

3. Go to the kitchen and eat leftover burger king and papa john’s and debate which is older (and as my brother put it, “we bought them yesterday so they’re both the same age.” Burgers are having ages now? Perhaps I really should get to studying… but then who’s going to finish writing this list?)

4. Have thumb wars with your little brother.

5. Read all the different menus you have in your bag and choose what you’d like to order (That place on Baxter St. seems REALLY good…).

6. Use Facebook chat, which you normally don’t use, and discuss summer plans and how you can’t wait til this semester ends and how you’re supposed to be writing papers and studying, with a few of your friends.

7. Take Facebook quizzes even though you think they’re stupid and annoying and write off most of the results as stupid and untrue.

8. Admire your new bag.

9. Give yourself virtual makeovers on marieclaire.com

10. Rearrange your Summer and Fall schedules.

11. Make a list of what you shouldn’t do when it’s finals week and you have to write papers and study.

12. Apply for financial aid.

13. Take a nap.

14. Come up with reasons you plan on giving people when they ask you all disappointedly why you deleted them off your facebook

15. Look up apartments for either your parents to move to or yourself to move to in the future

16. Debate how much you’re going to miss your sister when she goes for vacation and whether you’ll miss her more this time or when she goes for vacation in July.

17. Debate whether your big toe is taller than the one next to it.

18. Get all annoyed about Season 3 of Veronica Mars and how the finale was not a finale and how there should be a season 4 except for that it shouldn’t suck.

19. Search online to find out if that Veronica Mars movie is ever going to exist.

20. Try to find the rest of the O’Grady seasons online.

21. Eat ice cream.

22. Debate whether blue fruit loops are cooler than blue M&M’s.

23. Count your eyelashes.

24. Make a list of reasons why your professor ruined your life. (Not to mention your English class)

On to the papers! (yeah right)

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Yolates

I was up yesterday grouping my list of poses/exercises from my senior year yoga class.

I’m not going to put instructions or anything, maybe a few links and pictures of the ones I really like. But they’re grouped generally according to what they benefit.

Oh, my teacher mixed yoga and pilates, we did stuff from both. A lot of the ab stuff is from pilates.

Stress exercises
cobra
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/thecobra.asp
locust
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/789
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/thelocust.asp
child
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/475
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/childpose.asp
baby
bridge
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/472
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/thebridge.asp


Neck exercises
seated yoga mudra
http://www.theholisticcare.com/asana/Yoga%20Mudra.htm
standing yoga mudra
http://www.iyogalife.com/beginner_poses/Standing-Yoga-Mudra.shtml
shoulder stand
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/shoulderstand.asp
fish
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/786
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/thefish.asp
warrior


Arms/shoulder exercises
cobra
locust
standing yoga mudra
seated yoga mudra
plank
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/470
warrior
crow
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/468
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/info/crane-pose.asp
wheel
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/473
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/info/wheel-pose.asp


Chest exercises
cobra
fish
warrior
camel
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/688


Abdominal exercises
locust
rolling like a ball (pilates)
http://pilates.about.com/od/pilatesmat/a/Rolling.htm
sun salutation
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/sunsalutation.asp
Cat/cow
100’s (pilates)
http://wellnessexperts.com/pilates-exercises-for-beginners-pilates-exercise-100s/
ABC’s (pilates)
criss-cross (pilates)
http://pilates.about.com/od/pilatesmat/ss/CrissCross.htm
single leg stretch (pilates)
http://pilates.about.com/od/pilatesmat/ss/SingleLegStretc.htm
double leg stretch (pilates)
http://pilates.about.com/od/pilatesmat/tp/DblLegStretch.htm
scissors (pilates)
http://www.ehow.com/video_4953605_pilates-exercises-scissors.html
90 to 45 (pilates)
boat
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/489
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yoga-practice/boat-yoga-pose.asp
rollover (pilates)
http://pilates.about.com/od/pilatesmat/ss/RollOver.htm
warrior
crow
camel


Upper Back
standing yoga mudra


Lower Back
cobra (good for back aches)
shoulder stand
triangle


Back
seated yoga mudra
bow
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/875
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/thebow.asp
fish
tree
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/496
http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yoga-practice/tree-yoga-pose.asp
pigeon
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/863
King Pigeon
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/2469
rollover (pilates)
warrior
wheel
camel


Posture/Spine
locust
rolling like a ball (pilates)
plank
sun salutation
bow
half spinal twist
wheel
king pigeon
camel


Legs
locust
standing yoga mudra
head-to-knee
full bending
tree
neck pull (pilates)
http://www.lhj.com/health/guides/how-to-exercises/neck-pull/
pigeon
rollover (pilates)
triangle
warrior
leg series
http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/pilates/h_cupdownkibeg.htm
wheel

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Unprintable

More Hemingway. I didn’t get to read it today because I had an exam. To which I arrived 45 minutes late : D.

The last classic I read concerning war was All Quiet on the Western Front. Generally I’ve found that classics aren’t about war. Unless its a Shakespearean tragedy since you know, wars are great ways to end books and solve problems.


So yeah, the book is generally not what I expected but it’s pretty good. It’s characters are original and complex and the dialogue is amazing.

A few quotes:

“Unless they jam, run out of ammunition or get so hot they melt,” Robert Jordan said in English.

“What do you say?” Anselmo asked him.

“Nothing,” Robert Jordan said. “I was only looking into the future in English.”

“That is something truly rare,” the gypsy said. “Looking into the future in Ingles.”


“You must know the second half of a password.”

“What is the first half then?” Robert Jordan said.

“I have forgotten it,” the man said in the dark and laughed. “Go then unprintably to the campfire with they obscene dynamite… And when thou comest to the camp, order that some one should relieve me because I have indescribable and unprintable hunger and I have forgotten the password…

“That we blow up an obscene bridge and then have to obscenely well obscenity ourselves off out of these moutains?”

“One called Agustin says he dies of boredom above,” Robert Jordan said.

“That doesn’t kill,” Pablo said. “Let him die a little.”

Book is pretty long though. It’s like Harry Potter without teenagers.

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Huming-yay

I’m almost up to Chapter four of For Whom the Bell Tolls. So far it’s pretty good it’s just I find the style of speaking a little awkward. It sounds sort of like all of them are speaking languages that aren’t their native tongue. Robert Jordan is, but the rest of the characters are speaking Spanish. I guess maybe it’s like that since in a way all of the dialogue is a translation into English.

Some parts I liked:

“I am an old man who will live until I die,” Anselmo told him. “Also I am not afraid of foxes.”

“The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.” – Anselmo

What kind of bear is this?!

There was another part that I don’t exactly remember. I’ll post it when I find it again.

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Random Fact Generator. This is what I got.

During a 1956 speech for his campaign of de-Stalinization, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was asked by an unseen audience member why, as an advisor to the dictator, he had never stopped Stalin from committing his atrocities. Khrushchev immediately lashed out, “Who said that?” The room grew quiet. Khrushchev repeated his query to more silence, waited a beat, and then said, “Well, now you understand why.”

Cool, eh? I’m going to try again.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/amazingfactgenerator/?p=173

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The Best Laid Plans

Below is a conversation among three intelligent people very near and dear to me. Well, two I guess. Calling yourself intelligent and saying that you are very near and dear to yourself is a bit conceited.

(Names are omitted to protect the innocent as they always will be on this blog)
A is quite glad and proud that she has finished a conversation in which she was ensnared for about a week…
Yesterday at 11:01pm
M at 11:46pm March 14
lol hooray! let’s have a wild party in celebration : )
A at 11:56pm March 14
Let’s have it at Morningstar Cafe… not Something-Something Diner… hee hee.
M at 12:09am March 15
lol yes indeed. im so in love with the idea of breakfast available all day : )
A at 12:11am March 15
I think there’s lots of places that do that, lots of diners/cafes.
M at 12:20am March 15
yeah i guess but one day me and L were on a hunt (around hunter lol) for waffles and we just couldnt find them because breakfast time was over : (
A at 12:21am March 15
That sucks… but, hey, now you know about Morningstar!! Now we can always go there. Mmm… waffles…
M at 12:22am March 15
yay, those pancakes were so fluffy
A at 12:23am March 15
As opposed to “flat as a pancake.” LOL. Hey, how was Ikea???
M at 12:26am March 15
LOL ur so witty : )
o it was fun. sorta packed. and we failed at convincing d to quit being a workaholic
M at 12:26am March 15
we happened to b sitting in front of the kids play area during lunch so it was like a free show
A at 12:27am March 15
They have a kids play area? Man, this Ikea is like a whole city… LOL
M at 12:29am March 15
yeah! basically u can live there. and it’d be a blast
A at 12:30am March 15
Oh, man, tell S to forget the castle… She should look up how much it would cost to buy Ikea…
A at 12:30am March 15
Nah… I think the dude who owns it is one of the richest people in the world… LOL
M at 12:31am March 15
LOL. and you guys can’t put hippos in the east river. i thought you were really into that?
A at 12:32am March 15
Yeah… hmmm… I don’t think the hippos would survive out there, so far away from their natural habitat…
A at 12:32am March 15
We could have… I don’t know… savage pigeons. LOL. What kinds of wild animals live in NYC??
M at 12:36am March 15
LOL but i hate pigeons.
i dunno? taxis? they’re pretty wild
A at 12:37am March 15
Pigeons are totally gross. As are taxis. LOL.
M at 12:41am March 15
yeah…maybe we should stick to the castle then lol. i like the castle idea. we’ll build it so that we can have our own water taxi to take us to ikea
lol
A at 12:43am March 15
Man, that’s a great idea… So I guess we’d have to be pretty close to Ikea. Or just across an ocean or something. LOL.
M at 12:44am March 15
yup : ) we can live on an island somewhere
A at 12:46am March 15
Right. The island that we’ll buy. We can set up a government and a constitution… LOL. Too much American history.
M at 12:51am March 15
lol wt do we need that for if its just us three. “no person shall hatch super evil plans to invade the other persons’ wings”
lol
A at 12:53am March 15
“We the people of this island, to form a more perfect, uh, island… something… do solemnly ordain that the water taxi will take us daily to Ikea.”
S at 12:23pm March 15
I hate to depress you guys, but the last person that tried to make their own island got invaded by Nigeria. I’m not even kidding.
M at 1:21pm March 15
which is why we’ll just have to b part of the u.s.
M at 1:21pm March 15
i guess we COULD just write that constitution for fun
S at 2:59pm March 15
Yeah… beats being part of Nigeria.
A at 3:05pm March 15
“We do solemnly swear and ordain that we will take any measures necessary never to become part of Nigeria…” ? LOL
M at 4:05pm March 15
lol thats hilarious but nigeria doesn’t have to honor that clause and im pretty sure their army has more than 3 ppl so wt measures would we take?
S at 4:11pm March 15
Umm… “screw you, you’re Nigeria” measures? Aren’t they like… an 8th world country?
A at 4:12pm March 15
LOL… We’ll just have to get ourselves an army. I’m sure there are plenty of people willing to protect us…
M at 7:32pm March 15
o right, thats true. theres always plenty of ppl willing to do wt we want since we’re good looking
A at 8:16pm March 15
Of course. Our beauty will speak for itself.
S at 8:17pm March 15
But… maybe we can keep Nigeria from attacking us by being beautiful.
S at 8:17pm March 15
Then we won’t need the army.
A at 8:18pm March 15
Even better. Make love, not war.
A at 8:18pm March 15
That’ll be part of our constitution.
M at 8:35pm March 15
lmao omg i’m going to save this conversation. this is the best decision making process ever
A at 8:37pm March 15
Indeed, this conversation deserves to be preserved for the ages…

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My 50 Musts in an Asian Drama (in progress)

my 50 musts in an asian drama
1. All problems are solved by going overseas. But if you go overseas, you go to Europe or America. Or Africa if you’re doing charity work. Asia and South America don’t actually exist : D

2. If you stand out in the rain, you get a fever and pass out. Because that’s what happens when you get a fever. Even though me and my friends get soaked in the rain for fun and aren’t even sneezing the next day.

3. AND, when you get a fever, the person who will eventually fall in love with you, or already is and is pretending not to will make you some form of oatmeal and put wet cloths on your head because there’s no such thing as fever reducer. You will remember this every time the two of you have a fight or when you’re realizing you love that person.

4. If you get into a fight, you get a strange red bruise on the corner of your lip, because your opponent always aims right there.

5. Your friends can sell your BABY but you’ll only be mad at them for a day and bring it up occasionally in an argument but you’ll still cheerily be best buds. : D

6. Everyone drinks entirely too much. Especially large groups of friends who hang out too much. They drink everyday, with their parents, when they’re depressed, when they’re happy, when they're meeting their significant other's parents, etc.

7. Everyone either has a heart condition or cancer. If it’s someone who has a bad relationship with someone close to them, they have a heart condition and have an attack every time the scriptwriter can’t think of a better resolution to the problem. Cancer also has that miraculous problem solving ability.

8. If a guy is hot, he’s probably rich. There are no hot poor guys.

9. No matter how rich or poor you are, all your worldly belongings manage to fit themselves into a single carry-on.

More to come : )

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