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Thursday, March 25, 2010 ( 10:51 PM ) shut up christine i'm gonna be an auntie :)  Tuesday, March 23, 2010 ( 1:11 AM ) shut up christine the music in this video is so gorgeous, i told meymuna that i didn't realize i was holding my breath while watching. halfway through i had to remind myself to inhale In The Hands of God from Mustafa Davis on Vimeo. about this film: This is a short film I made while in the Mulanje District of southern Malawi. Its the intimate story of a father and son. The film has very little dialogue. I wanted to let the compelling images tell this story so as not to take away from the purity of it. This film was not scripted. These are real life people that I was fortunate to have had the chance to meet. I simply turned my camera towards them and the story told itself. PLEASE SHARE THIS FILM so that we can let the world know that this family (and thousands of others like them) exist and need our help. The average Malawian citizen (who is able to or fortunate enough to find work) only makes between $12 -$15 a month. # Monday, March 22, 2010 ( 12:09 AM ) shut up christine me: i feel at this point in my experience, i don't appreciate love Anthony: wow me: give me a couple years. right now i have no patience. at 26 i want to be selfish and single and get my shit together without a guy in my faceAnthony: at least you are honest with yourself me: i know right? i'm not going to pretend to be enlightened when i'm in the middle of a struggle Anthony: that is enlightened
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Sunday, March 21, 2010 ( 9:42 PM ) shut up christine speaking of healthcare reform my physio prof will present us with a hypothetical situation, like: a patient is constantly drinking water, but constantly feels thirsty. hyperkalemic, high plasma osmolality, and high level of glucose in their urine. what does that mean? silence.... he says y'all are starting to PISS ME OFF, someone better give me an answer yall better KNOW this shit (i swear, he talks just like that) its true in real life, you can't say hold on let me look through my notes you can't depend on a machine reading to tell you what normal levels are you should know. and if you don't know, now you know (the patient is diabetic) # ( 7:50 PM ) shut up christine girrrl the health care debate is hella drama its like Jersey Shore for grownups check yourself. don't get it twisted guess who said this, republican or democrat: In the ultimate sense, the general good health of our people is the foundation of our national strength, as well as being the truest wealth that individuals can possess. Nothing should impede us from doing whatever is necessary to bring the best possible health care to those who do not now have it--while improving health care quality for everyone--at the earliest possible time. guesses, anyone? Richard Nixon, son. ....and the house passes. # Saturday, March 20, 2010 ( 11:23 PM ) shut up christine  being a part of it nurtured me back to health introduced me to amazing ideas and community and led me to places i would never have dreamed of going then i went through another tough time, partly because of it and the things that used to lift me up felt like dead weights even when i thought i was done and made clear that i didn't want to be here anymore i cannot avoid the fact that reading about it, hearing about it, or seeing it in action still makes me so happy # ( 1:31 AM ) shut up christine boy: i would be so good to you girl: i know girl: i don't want to be with you boy: i know # ( 1:15 AM ) shut up christine how aggravating we are talking on the phone i grab a bunch of knives and i spit them i say i'm sorry he says for what? i say for everything he says thank you for everything why does he have to be so understanding? i would sleep much better at night if he gave up and stormed off i would sleep so peacefully # Friday, March 19, 2010 ( 4:46 PM ) shut up christine these are so stunningly beautiful to me    when i'm old i hope my face will develop deep, beautiful wrinkles # Wednesday, March 17, 2010 ( 3:25 AM ) shut up christine old but this is the first time i've seen it i love this song and this video and the social commentary # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 ( 2:20 AM ) shut up christine hooray i'm getting a new pair of sneakers today! and pink shoelaces this song is for mile #9 if we can make it # Monday, March 15, 2010 ( 4:22 AM ) shut up christine  but i also said if you want to come to counseling with me we have to go separately and if anyone asks, we'll say we're just friends, because we are he said when they ask him why he's there its because he wants to be there to support me and i said why? it's not like i'm nice to you i don't want you to hate me when this is over he said but he's not like the other guys i've been with i said i want so badly to believe you he said maybe you will, some day i said nope. and he laughed # Friday, March 12, 2010 ( 11:25 AM ) shut up christine  i told d i was gonna go to marriage counseling he asked me if he could come with and i said i guess? if you want to? i mean if you think it would be helpful to you, in life he said he thinks it will, and that he will sit all the way in the back, and i can sit up front, if it makes me feel better # Wednesday, March 10, 2010 ( 4:16 PM ) shut up christine i've been having a hard time sitting through my philosophy of religion class his grading is so subjective (based on how much he likes you) and after a few incidents at the beginning of the semester i decided the best way to get through this was to keep my mouth shut but today the professor made a comment so i smiled. raised my hand. and very calmly and confidently went off "WHO are YOU to say....." for those of you who know me, i'm timid, soft spoken and i sound like a freakin 6 year old but as i was speaking, in the background i could hear my classmates saying ohhhh shit!!! i surprised myself with the strength of the words that were coming out of my mouth he apologized at the end of class. today's lesson: even if you are afraid of failing, especially if you are afraid of failing speak your mind if i fail this class, so be it i have never felt more powerful than i do today # Tuesday, March 09, 2010 ( 11:48 AM ) shut up christine i have learned that you can't be all secret ninja-like and then pose 10 seconds for a picture it reduces your street cred alas i do not have any record of the shenanigans that went down at ihop and CVS at 3am or the look on the polish guy's face! someone in poland loves america. i do have a few pics of the walk though. also, i am beginning to discover the extent of the clan... there are millions of anonymous do-gooding ninjas out there, disguised as avis rental car employees or manning the american airlines missing luggage claims desk. i bow down to you       Sunday, March 07, 2010 ( 9:18 PM ) shut up christine life, in ben-speak me: i want to learn physics Benedict: I want to teach you me: teach me please!
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Benedict: A compressed spring weighs more than a relaxed spring. why? me: yes tell me why Benedict: when you compress a spring, it has potential energy to expand again the energy is there in the molecular lattice of the spring and E=MC^2 me: love it Benedict: can i tell you one more story one of my favourite analogies to life in physics is principle axis - if you have an oscillating system and you look at it with the wrong angle or in terms of the wrong frequency, it will seem like random motion Benedict: but if you shift your axis to the right one you can see the components of oscillation in the system.that is just like life to me me: deep. ( 3:56 PM ) shut up christine more about my adventures in florida later (my suitcase decided to peace out and hitched a plane to uruguay without me. jealous!) but one thing i won't forget: at the very end of the walk, after we had finished cleaning up and packing our cars i watched mandy and her boyfriend say goodbye (they would be seeing each other later that day) nothing crazy, he just hugged her for about 8 seconds and then they gave each other a small peck on the lips maybe it was the look on his face as he was hugging her, with his eyes closed but i was like woahhh! i want to be kissed like that not anytime soon, i'm just sayin. # Thursday, March 04, 2010 ( 10:51 PM ) shut up christine  today a classmate borrowed a page of my microbio notes from the previous lecture and innocently asked: what does this say? i can't read this line... i looked at the page, and could barely make out the words myself egads have i become my mother, with her illegible chicken scratch? is messy writing a degenerative disease...oh god will it get worse as i age..but i'm only 26, when did it start happening?! ...when did i get so lazy? once, in elementary school, the principal had been standing behind my desk she scooped up my assignments then stopped the teacher and class to make an announcement "this is how it should be done." she noted my perfectly straight math columns (i often placed a sheet of graph paper under the actual paper, so that each number would align immaculately) i know. i was a little psychotic back then i was also fat and mute but my penmanship was effing impeccable i don't want to go back to being a fat psycho mute 4th grader but i want to retrain my hands to write beautifully again # Wednesday, March 03, 2010 ( 2:21 AM ) shut up christine  OPERATION ORLANDO HERE I COME! this weekend i'm flying out to our Be the Cause-Florida chapter's first Walk for Hope! this is possible because someone generously gifted a plane ticket to me and as nipun would say....if you can't pay it back, pay it forward :) the mission: 27 hours to drop love! on orlando, ninja stealth style i hit up the usual suspects for ideas some of them prepared small gifts and letters to be delivered to our volunteers there asha sent me this sweet flyer which was actually rahul's valentine's day gift to her...they spent time folding the notes around $1 bills, then left them on their neighbors' doorsteps (by the way isn't that the cutest valentine's gift evar? i would love for my hypothetical husband and i do things like that for and with each other) hmm what else can i do? i will post photos of the mission when i return  # Monday, March 01, 2010 ( 1:10 AM ) shut up christine i accidentally hit my chin and winced in pain when the pimple there exploded as i was washing the blood off i got a good look at my acnefied reflection in the bathroom mirror and saw Quasimodo i try to remind myself that beauty is on the inside all these marks on my face are reminders of that and every morning when i wake up with another fat pimple on my face, the universe is drilling a message into my brain, reinforcing how beautiful i really am riiiight i wish it was that easy. at the drop of a hat i forget my worth. le sigh. to the doubting, insecure cb: eff you, i'm gorgeous. tattoo this mantra on your heart # |
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