After much anxiety and resume-stretching, I am most likely employed for the holidays. Actually wrote to FiRST magazine asking for work and had my resume requested in turn, but I'll wait on that.
It's surreal as hell, but I'm going to see Ralph Fiennes in a Brian Friel play on Broadway before returning home for the summer! (
Tickets were a pain in the ass to get, let me tell you)
It is finally warm enough outside to wear shorts. I ran to main Grounds yesterday after a week of horror and procrastination writing two take-home exams both due on Friday at 5pm and skipping classes in order to do so. Got the exam in half-an-hour late, then Taiwanese Students' Association Night Market where the S'pore folks had a booth selling pork floss buns; it was fantastic eating carrot cake and bubble tea and fried rice on top of that, diverse and happy customers, spicy noodle eating contest for the ABC in all of us.
Then
AVP concert, the all-male acapella group my pop culture-loving soul delighted in. Where else would you find eighteen college boys who sing "Larger than Life" as an encore piece, bounce and flap like a rabid conga line, emo-parody Greenday, with a cauliflower-flinging audience?
The link and blab sectionExcerpt 1 -
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"Overly social-centered minority organizations can be counterproductive and actually further alienate their members from the University social scene... [common interest] groups will allow all types of people to interact based on shared interests rather than on racial or ethnic lines and to feel more like University students."
"Until ethnic minorities trek down Rugby Road* one Saturday night, until Southern belles sacrifice a mixer to go to an Indian food festival, the University has a long way to go in fostering an open social culture."
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* Location of predominantly white frat houses and hence, parties
This chick cited frat parties as an example of a cultural event. There's a punchline, right? Right?
I also find the term "Southern belle" kind of offensive, and I'm not even Southern.
Excerpt 2 - The honest-to-goodness Myspace account of Lance Bass
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"Don't know why I am on a book reading binge (cause i really have never gotten into reading) but, after I read "Here's What We'll Say" I am on "The Celestine Prophecy". I remember Justin reading it on tour, and saying how great it was..... now I am about to start it. Fun! It's like Lance's book of the month club! I'll tell you how I like it."
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Dude, he totally wishes he was Oprah.
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"I ran into some of the Idol kids last week at CBS... We share the same dressing room floor. I met Katherine McPhee, Lisa Tucker, Taylor Hicks, Chris D and Ace Young. They were all really great. I posted one of the pics I took. I'm such a geek!"
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I'm glad you realize that, because they are now more famous than you.
In case you were wondering here is said picture.
I absolutely love how Ace is already learning to drown out anything that leaves Mr. Bass's mouth.
- Degrassi High: The Next Generation - the most enjoyable teen soap and absolute cutest couple to avoid S'pore screens. Okay, so Marco is Italian, not Hispanic, never mastered the art of Crying, is terrified of bees, and has shifting hairdos that make him oscillate between looking like Enrique Iglesias and Victor Rasuk (bad Lords of Dogtown version), but you know, there's Unresolved Romantic Tension and Stuff!
- 10 Things - Some lovely person uploaded the entire movie on youtube so I watched it for the first time. And how come no one told me Heath is CLASS 'A' BUMBLY BADASS ADORABLE in it? I love the part when he yanks that bestial scowl onto his face and drills a hole through Joseph Gordon-Levitt's French textbook.
# posted by s. ning @ 5:10 PM
