January 2010
10 posts
“Rent has AIDS and Nazis, right? No? Then what’s the musical with the...”
– Eric somehow manages to combine Rent and The Sound of Music in to one strange, time warping musical
Hawt.
Today, at the suggestion of my friends Christina and Debbie, I went to a Bikram yoga class at Bikram Yoga Evanston. Bikram yoga is 26 poses and 2 breathing exercises practiced in a 105 degree 40% humidity room for 90 minutes. I was fairly apprehensive about it because I had heard it was really hard, and the BYE website is pretty intense. So I get there, pay, introduce myself to the instructor,...
Not Just Another Movie About Stealing Resources...
I just saw Avatar for the second time, and it was awesome again (if the fact that I’ve spent a total of $30 dollars on this movie didn’t prove that). As pretty much everyone I’ve talked to has said, the plot was pretty standard (think Pocahontas, Fern Gully, Dances with Wolves, etc.), but it’s so visually awesome that it doesn’t even matter. I’ve only seen it...
“1. Did everyone see Jersey Shore last night? If you didn’t…. get...”
– My queer cinema TA in our discussion today
Italia, ti manco
Up at 3am trying to write a paper on two days of very little sleep… this is what I did not miss about Northwestern.
Real Grown-ups
My roommates and I are pretty much completely settled into our apartment (and its below-mentioned oddities), and I’m not gonna lie, it’s pretty awesome. Saturday night my roommate Laura and I made a really delicious dinner, which prompted on of my friends from Italy to say, “It’s like you’re real grown ups now.” So here are some pictures to prove it.
...
?
Our apartment is an anthropological treasure trove. Literally everywhere you look you find something that begs the question “why would anyone do that?”
Examples:
Supergluing a full-length mirror to the back of a door.
Putting 2 outlets in every room of the house except for the bedroom that’s slightly larger than the pantry, which has 6.
Strange.
Back to School!
I’m finally back in Evanston, where it is a surprisingly toasty 18 degrees. I moved into my apartment on saturday and started classes on monday. To start the quarter off, here is one or two interesting facts from each of my first classes.
Medieval Literature: Paganism and Christianity- The names for our days of the week come from germanic gods, and the french, italian, spanish, latin...
Last Days in Italy Part 4: Cultural Findings
I’m back in Evanston, and I think I need to wrap up this story before I completely kill it (if I haven’t already), so here are some funny “snidbits,” as my sister would call them, of italian culture.
1) Correction: I said earlier that my roommate was always using the hand gesture for “you’re busting my balls.” Not true. She was using the Sicilian hand...