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|  | You scored as Jimmy. You are somewhat of an endearing clown. You are likeable but not well respected because you sacrifice internal skill development (personal competence) in being too externally preoccupied and people pleasing. You will go farther by pursuing and developing internal interests than being preoccupied with keeping people happy.
Jimmy | | 78% | Kirsten | | 72% | Sandy | | 72% | Seth | | 67% | Oliver | | 66% | Summer | | 61% | Anna | | 61% | Julie | | 61% | Marissa | | 56% | Luke | | 50% | Ryan | | 33% | Caleb | | 33% | Hailey | | 17% |
What OC character are you?
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| | You scored as Philosophy. You should be a Philosophy major! Like the Philosopher, you are contemplative and you enjoy thinking about the purpose for humanity's existence.
Philosophy | | 100% | Journalism | | 100% | English | | 92% | Sociology | | 92% | Mathematics | | 83% | Dance | | 83% | Linguistics | | 83% | Anthropology | | 83% | Engineering | | 83% | Psychology | | 75% | Art | | 58% | Theater | | 50% | Chemistry | | 17% | Biology | | 17% |
What is your Perfect Major?
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Your 2005 Song Is
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Beverly Hills by Weezer
"My automobile is a piece of crap
My fashion sense is a little whack
And my friends are just as screwy as me"
You breezed through 2005 in your own funky style!
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| Posted this on my LJ Nov 28...forgot to post it here....so here it
is...would have back dated it....but apparantly xanga cant do
that...yet...
So I was talking with my mom today. We were talking about the excesses
of capitalism and the possible solutions for it. Debating back and
forth whether it was a problem to be dealt with through the charity of
individuals or through governmental policies.
My mom sees it as something that should be the responsibility of
individuals. I think that we as individuals should care and should be
willing to give, but realistically, its not happening. As individuals
we aren’t doing nearly enough to pick up the slack on our own, so I
think that there needs to be policies and societal structures that are
set up and maintained to deal with the problem.
I do a lot of talking. I talk a lot about the inequities of our day and
how something needs to be done about it. How we as a culture don’t do
nearly enough. How our economy is built largely on the exploitation of
the 3rd world. About the growing problem of poverty, starvation,
genocide and exploitation in our world. All of which I believe to be
true. Today my mom called me out. She said to me she wants to see what
happens a few years down the line when me and my brother and my
sis-in-law are out in the world and have careers, if we put all our
talk into action, if we’ll put our money and our time where our mouths
are.
I love that my mom called me out on it. I love that my family is
willing to be so honest with each other and have such open
conversations. I have the best family in the world. But anyways, back
to what I was saying…
So I started really thinking about this. Really thinking about it.
Without question right now I am not doing enough. I should be giving
more. More of my time. More of my resources. Gandhi once famously said
that you need to be the change that you want to see in the world, and I
haven’t been doing that.
I’ve gotten to thinking about where I am right now in my life. I’m at
an exciting point in my life. A place where I will start making the
choices that will set the course for the rest of my life. The question
I guess is, what affect do I want my choices to have on the world. I’ve
started thinking about what my gifts, what my passions are.
Thinking about this. I realize that I really have two passions that
have been laid upon me in my life. I have a passion for writing and a
passion for justice. Those are the things I need to chase after, and
anything that interferes with that paradigm just needs to go to the
wayside.
I look at the example that my brother and sis-in-law are setting in
chasing after their passions and I only hope that it is something that
I can emulate.
My brother is about to head off to law school. He’s filling out his
applications right now. He scored a 171/180 on his LSAT, putting him in
the top 2% and basically making it so that he’ll be able to go to
pretty much any law school he wants. He’s not going to law school so
that he can make loads of cash though, he’s going to law school so that
he can fight the injustice that is happening all around us.
His plan is to eventually working for IJM (International Justice
Mission, check it out at www.ijm.org), which is a Christian
organization that uses volunteer lawyers to fight cases of injustice
throughout the world. Examples of things that they fight are forced
prostitution, indentured work, false imprisonment, cases of genocide,
etc, etc.
My sis-in-law is finishing up her PHD at Michigan State. Her studying
has largely involved Africa and for her dissertation she is looking at
the affect that different religions in Africa have on women’s role in
society. She (along with my brother) has a real heart for Africa, and I
know that she is going to do everything in her power to help change
things for the better.
So that brings me back to me and what in the world I am supposed to be doing with my life.
So I was looking around on facebook the other night, and I was looking
around a group I’m in called writers make better lovers. And there was
someone on the group and they had this exchange in their profile:
"So you wanna be a writer?"
"That's the plan."
"So, you're just going to live a little until you have something to write about?"
"No. I'm going to live a lot."
And I realized that maybe it’s just that simple. I need to live; I need
to live a lot. And I need to write. But more than that, the way I live
needs to reflect my passion.
I don’t know whether that will mean that I support causes through the
money that I make or it means that I make those causes my career.
But as Loyd Dobbler would say: “I don't want to sell anything, buy
anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell
anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or
process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold,
bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.”
I don’t want to just be another cog in the machine. I want to make a
difference. To be honest, I really don’t care if I make a lot of money,
and if I do make a lot of money I don’t want to hoard it all, I’m way
too consumeristic as it is. If I end up doing something where I make a
lot of money, I hope that I realize that the reason I will have been
blessed with it is not so that I can buy myself a bunch of stuff, but
so that I can make a difference in the world….
So tonight I went and saw Pride and Prejudice with my mom. It was a
great movie and it got me thinking about a lot of things…but that will
have to be for another day….for now…I must sleep…
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| I read The Secret Man a few weeks ago and I would definitely recommend
it. Especially if you have any interest in politics, journalism, or
just history in general.
It was cool to see Woodward finally delve into some of the specifics of
his main source and the process that went in to getting all of the
information that would help to expose the crimes of the Nixon
administration.
I think it will be very interesting once Mark Felt's (aka Deep Throat)
own account of the story does come out, though with his deteriorating
mental state who knows how much he does remember. Its a shame all of
this could not have come out sooner so we could get a more complete
idea of how everything went down.
I have a feeling Felt could have had a lot to tell us. Woodward
speculates on what some of his motivations may have been and goes into
a little bit what was going on at the FBI. Basically, Nixon was trying
to make the FBI another thing that was completely at his disposal, to
take away its independence and use it how he saw fit (typical Nixon
abuse of powers stuff). This is what Woodward suspects Felt's main
motivation was for helping to take down Nixon. To protect the
independence and integrity of the FBI. An inside story of what was
going on at the FBI at the time would be very interesting.
If you like the whole spy game, it is very interesting to see the
process that Woodward would go through in order to meet up with Felt
and how felt would feed him information and sometimes disinformation.
And you can definitely draw some parrallells between what is going on
in the book and with the current whole Plame situation, though I'm not
100% sure what my opinion is on the whole Wilson/Plame affair.
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