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| A Question for all the ladies in the houseWhy is it that more or less every girl I know thinks a British accent is the sexiest thing since the beach boys? I really don't get it.
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| All done-almostI just realized I had three finals in less than 24 hours. Also, what feels like 9 hours of sleep, though I know it was more like twelve, in the past two days. Just have to finish my 25 page paper and I'm done.
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| Two posts for the price of one!I'm recycling a response I gave to AimeeAnne here. The prompt was the question "What are the 5 things most important in a woman to you?" My answer is reproduced below.
1. She should be someone who chases the horizon. Not in the sense of
being "a dreamer" or impractical, but someone who's always pushing to
become more than they already are. Of a piece with this, she should be
resilient, determined, not easily hurt or dissuaded. This pretty much
encompasses a lot of what comes next. 2. She should be highly intelligent, instinctively curious, eager to study new ideas and assimilate new information. 3.
She should be reasonably athletic. I use the term "athletic" loosely
here, mostly to mean someone capable of enjoying physical exertion, in
good condition. I'm certainly not much in the hand-eye co-ordination or
team sports department, but I engage in fairly high-intensity physical
activity on a regular basis (daily, when I can), usually running or
martial arts. 4. She should have a good sense of humor. Dry irony is particularly sexy. 5. She should be reasonably attractive. If she fulfills number three, this probably wouldn't be much of a stretch.
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| The Rice PrincipleOcelot has encouraged me to update, and since she seems to be tossing out recommendations for entries right and left, I figured now would be a good time to post. Since I am a shallow and self-absorbed man without worthwhile insights of my own, however, I decided to take them from someone else. I got this story from my Judo Sensei, and though Asian Martial-Artsy Wisdom always risks plunging into the Abyss of Cliche, it's still a striking image. In the spirit of shameless plagiarism, then:
“Ssal Shin Jo” translates from Korean as “Rice Principle”.
“Rice Principle” judo was inspired by a story my Father
told me once after practice one day, when I was young and felt
particularly proud of myself. It was for something I no longer recall,
although I remember that I was boasting a bit, and my father said, “Do
you know how rice grows?”
“No,” I said, “I don’t. Why?”
“When it’s young and green, it grows like this,” he said, holding
one hand in the other, and pushing his fingers slowly upwards, “the
head is up and straight.
“But when it gets ripe, and the rice is ready, the head is heavy and
bows down.” As he said this, the fingers and hand of the growing rice
bent until they were completely bowed forward.
“Remember this, ok?”
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| Appalachian Old-TimeSo, today I went to my friends american folk music class with him, to hear guest speaker Mike Seeger. I hope at least some of you recognize that last name. Yes, that's right, it's Pete Seeger's younger, badder brother (though given that Pete Seeger was born in 1919, Mike is still fairly old). It was fascinating. He talked extensively about the development of what people usually call "old-time" music, somewhat similiar to bluegrass, but with a more back-woods element, associated primarily with the south and with Appalachia. Every so often he'd give a performance to illustrate his talk. The general trend of his talk was that American music developed a very unique sound as a result of the synthesis of African and European-folk influences (the banjo, apparently, was an African instrument originally made with gut strings and a gourd, and was the most popular instrument in the US until the guitar began to supplant it around the turn f the century).
A clip of Mr Seeger (though not of his presentation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4iL3rn9zG8
This has prompted me to think about trying to learn the harmonica.
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