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☑ able to approximate tempo of all three movements within ±10 bpm
☑ loled at how stupid various commercials are
☑ told Rachel the story of Jo White



PS we lost to McKay last night 20-23.

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this is actually something I've thought about quite a lot (because I am a huge dork and tend to get philosophical about everything, you see), and I have to say that the scrutiny we place on the personal lives of celebrities really bothers me. you do have to give up your privacy to some extent, and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing—for example, I imagine it's hard to be (hugely) hypocritical when you're constantly in the public eye. on the other hand, I have absolutely no doubt that the pressure to be exactly who you say you are all the time is why so many celebrities are messed up; everyone needs an escape sometimes, right?

( tl;dr, includes some views on kpop )

...I feel like that should have been some sort of formal essay :| one of these days I will learn to express myself in two sentences or less.


in other news, Kyu's new hair isn't as bad as it looked on my phone, but I still wish he'd left it long :( also band camp starts tomorrow FML and I feel like a loser whenever I say band camp. there needs to be a less dorky name for it.

PS this girl is amazing

so I've spent the last three and a half hours reading about fun things like homophobia, racism, and antifeminism :D thanks, metaquotes!

but the point of this post is to pimp out Harvard's Project Implicit, which is something that I find endlessly fascinating. basically, it tests your unconscious associations between various topics (i.e. church/state + bad/good) and tells you what those associations are. it's a good way to make sure you're not being hypocritical, although I have to caution you against getting defensive if you get a result that doesn't match what you thought of yourself. there are two options: Demonstration, which is just various tests that you can take without it contributing to their data; and Research, which requires you to be either 18+ or have a parental email (aka use a different email than the one you registered with), which obviously does add to their tests.

personally, I think all this is fascinating, and this is as much a mental note to myself as it is me trying to get other people involved in it (...or something). if anyone does take it, I'd be sort of interested to hear some of your results (if you're comfortable sharing); thus far, I've learned that I have a slight preference for Certainty over Mystery and a moderate preference for Church over State (which is somewhat surprising, but in many ways not at all)—I don't know if these tests are available in the Demonstration section, as I'm participating in the Research part, but I'm sharing anyway because I'm cool like that :D

what I had planned to do this week:

what I will be doing this week:


seriously it is SO ADDICTING and super customizable. my Sim looks so much like me it's scary (only she's thinner and better at guitar read: she can play guitar very well whereas I have had my bass for a year and can't do shit with it). so if you don't see me around much this week, blame EA Games :|

ugh I'm really not sure whether to be excited for the Avatar movie or kind of pissed off. really idc that much about the chinese characters thing, but the casting does irritate me. I mean, I'm generally all for the idea of the most talented person getting the part, but it's not like there aren't any talented Asian actors out there (I honestly think Dante Basco could play Zuko if he were a bit scrawnier, that man DOES NOT AGE--seriously, playing a REALLY FIT teenager when he was 31? yeah. ageless.), and given that all the cultures in the series were based off preexisting ones...idk, my opinion is that they should cast people for each nation from the culture they were based on. whitewashing (LOOKING AT YOU, 21) irritates the hell out of me :/

in other news, got Michael Turner's Soulfire: Chaos Reign (because omg hot people in skimpy clothing) and some Dark Horse/MySpace collaboration anthology that has a pretty awesome Joss Whedon miniseries in it. makes me happy.

finally, I have started noticing that on all the spaghetti-strap tank tops I have, the straps are too long :| obv it's fine if they're adjustable, but most of them aren't, so my bra is constantly sticking out, urgh. you'd think my boobs would more than compensate for my short shoulders/sternum/whatever, but APPARENTLY NOT. boo my life.

off to Karsh Kale & MIDIval PunditZ (and possibly CSz? idk) in about an hour, ttfn.