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LINKS

LINKS


Gregg Segal photography.

Believe your eyes: the world's strangest optical illusions and mirages.

I've won the game, now what? An important reminder that money and 'success' isn't everything. (Thanks Nubby)

Your scene sucks: know the dress styles. SO TRUE!! I know about half these people. (Thanks Caitlin)

Hannah convinces you to read.

I'm sick of pretending: I don't get art. 

Here's the trailer for Mansome, a documentary that looks pretty awesome. (video)

This amazing powerful campaign against animal testing by Lush. I really think this was a good way to show people what "animal testing" really means. (video) (Thanks Courtney)

52 interesting facts that you must know! (Thanks Suzy)

Where did the word 'dude' come from? (Thanks Courtney)

What I learned from twenty years of dating. 

Top five TV dads. I love all these dads, but I have to say Homer Simpson is the only TV dad who has consistently made me laugh out loud for over ten years.

Kristin Luna shows us how to take interesting photos of boring monuments. 

One of the best reasons for journaling I've ever heard.

Let's not pretend it's always easy. So true!

Remember how hip Suzy is?

Write like a motherfucker. 

State-sponsored voyeurism - photography from the Czechoslovakian security services archive. 

This little GIF is so cute!

A simple approach for fixing your crappy self esteem. Sometimes it is that simple. (Thanks Kellie)

A year in Charlie's pocket. What a 10 year old collects. 

I wish I could make these origami diamonds. (Thanks Kyla)

This article on male privelage in geek culture really hits the nail on the head for me. (Thanks Suzy)

Why is no one commenting on our blog? (Thanks Nubby)

34 things Paul Jarvis has learned by the age 34. So true!! 

Don't fear the internet: basic HTML and CSS for non-web designers.

A tribute to Stripe from Gremlins.

Inside the racist mind. (Thanks Sarah Von)

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Fiona Apple's newest!! SO GOOD. 

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The no-baggage challenge.

I want a backyard office. (Thanks Caitlin)

Seeing yourself as others do. 

The children of the Russian rich.

The hippocratic oath of a photographer, 1937. 

(Vancouver Island) Hiking for fat people. Perfect!

A complete guide to Jerry Seinfeld's sneakers.

That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.

I need nice things.

Five manifestos for creative living. (Thanks Nubby)

Have you ever heard of the Bechdel test? I'm going to keep my eyes open while watching movies and see if I can spot woman on woman conversations from now on. (Thanks Suzy)

Going from idea to reality. (Thanks Sarah Von)

The unintentionally hilarious world of band P.R.

xkcd's color survey results.

A father who creatively captures his kids.

10 must-follow tumblr blogs for science lovers.

Chinese physically disabled athletes training for the 2012 Paralympics in London. 

The nine strangest deaths of the renaissance era.

The history of the bikini. (Thanks Caitlin.)

10 unexpectedly awesome foreign music genres.

Get your blog love back. 

The top ten relationship words that aren't translatable into English. (Thanks Suzy)

What it cost eight women writers to make it in New York. (Thanks Sarah Von)

And last but not least...this MAD fold-in! Remember those? They were my favorite parts of MAD Magazine.

infp

(Suzy, consider this photo a nod to this post! hahaha)

The Myers Briggs personality test says I'm an INFP psychological type. That stands for introverted, intuitive, feeling and perceptive. These all sound like lovely glamorous things but I think every type is a positive deal. Which is apparently part of being an INFP...we think everyone's point of view is valid.

A few other things it said about me that I totally agree with are:

-quiet and reserved
-not many friends
-physically lose energy around too many people (This is so true! I never realized it was a thing.)
-give weight to social implications over logic
-more abstract than concrete
-enjoys metaphors and similes
-withholds judgement
-delays important decisions to keep options open
-difficult to get to know
-delights in the unusual
-avoids conflict
-forms judgement based on intangible criteria
-requires substantial time alone
-have trouble finishing a project because it can't meet their high standards

And best of all, this description of the 'intuition' section:

What the observer usually sees is creativity with implied good will. Intuition spawns this type's philosophical bent and strengthens pattern perception. It combines as auxiliary with introverted Feeling and gives rise to unusual skill in both character development and fluency with language--a sound basis for the development of literary facility. If INTPs aspire to word mechanics, INFPs would be verbal artists. 

(via INFP Profile)

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Sometimes I just think I'm a crazy weird bad-at-socializing person, until I come across things like this and realize there are probably a billion other introverted, metaphor loving non-project finishers out there.



To take the Myers Briggs test on yourself, you can click here here and here, they are three tests that gave me the same result. It's supposedly around 75% accurate. Come back and let me know if your results are what you expected.
 

diptych: my bathroom friends

Not sure why that second photo uploaded with lines all over it but I'mma just blame blogger for that. I picked these little luchadors up in an open-air market in Puebla, Mexico a few years ago. They're hand painted and cost me like a dollar for ten of them. They all hang out at the mirror over the sink in "my" bathroom. It's mine because a) it's purple and I chose that color, and b) the litter box is in there and somehow we decided that the cat is mine only and so is her stink. Fine by me, 'cause hey, I get my own bathroom.

gpoy - two self portraits

diptych: the college experience plus depressing stuff

I guess I should say something instead of just posting pictures all week. I'm really having that spread-too-thin feeling lately. Not that I'm tired or 'worn out', it's that I can't seem to put myself one hundred percent into anything mentally, and so everything is half-assed or three-quarters-assed, depending on the day and how many snacks I have. I hate feeling that I could be doing better at things but I'm not for no particular reason.

Things seem depressing; a lot of my friends are going through very big harsh things, the weather has gone back to grey West-coast drizzle, I'm making lots of money but then having to spend it on overdue bills and probably a vet visit soon because Tank has a new lump on his tail*. My feet hurt again too, which is just icing on the lame-week cake.

Death is stuck in my head in a loop, it started on Monday in class when my professor reenacted her mother's death for us so we would know what real death looks like** and I can't seem to shake it out.  So of course Tank's lump is freaking me out.  And now I feel like the entire medical field is not for me because it's all about terrible things that can and will happen to you. Which leads me down a rabbit hole of once again questioning my choices bla bla bla.

On a walk home I was comparing the things I love (writing and languages) to the things that I'm learning now (diseases and guts) and how the former is all about life and sharing and ideas, and the latter seems to be all about horror and futile prevention methods and looking mortality in the face.

Don't let me catch you feeling sorry for me though, I've got a wonderful life. I just need to push through this last bit of class, take some midol, stay off my feet a bit and work out what my next step should be. Life planning is tough sometimes. Especially when everything seems to mean more and more very expensive pay-upfront-type school.And some of the options include a required course on "interpersonal skills for health care workers" which basically sounds like my personal hell.

So in conclusion...I haven't been writing much lately because it's just been a bunch of this kind of thing floating around my head and I didn't want you to all get sad or worry or be bored of reading about my feelings.


*It's probably nothing, no cause to worry yet. It's probably a lipoma. ***

**It's not at all like the movies, much scarier. Also? WHO DOES THAT?

*** Look at me, using school terms in real life.