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Name: neener
School: USC Marshall School of Business
Status: Employed
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Reason for blogging: I'm incredibly self-absorbed. |
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I'm listening to...
::"No Diggity," Blackstreet
::"A Song For You," Donny Hathaway
::"Life Is a Highway," Rascal Flatts
::"Put Your Records On," Corinne Bailey Rae
::"Promiscuous," Nelly Furtado
::"Seishun Amigo," Shuji To Akira
I'm watching...
::Scrubs
::The Sopranos
I'm reading...
::American Fuji, by Sara Backer
::Bitter Is the New Black, by Jen Lancaster
::Generation Kill, by Evan Wright
::How to Be Lost, by Amanda Eyre Ward
::Jane Austen in Scarsdale, by Paula Marantz Cohen
I've just seen...
::The Devil Wears Prada
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Random Question: Something That Struck Me and Made Me Wonder As To What the Answer Might Be Is it just me, or have subtitles of books become longer and longer? I've been catching up some of my DVR'ed episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and I can't help noticing that their guests have books with really long titles to the point where they barely fit on the book cover.
A sampling:
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe
The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future
I mean, look at that last one. Is that verbiage really necessary? Really? Or is it an attempt to save trees by printing the introduction on the book cover? Just wondering.
On Effective Snobbery. I think that when you are going to be snobby and criticize others, you should probably try to avoid making errors that might undermine your credibility.
For example, if you are going to write a review in a public forum such as Yelp.com and criticize a restaurant for not clearing dishes from your table, I would suggest that you do not repeatedly and vehemently type, "Mis en place. Mis en place." For one thing, it is spelled "mise en place." (Yeah, I took French in high school.) Also, "mise en place" has to do with preparing and organizing your ingredients prior to cooking them, not table settings. If you had followed my suggestion, you might have seemed like less of an ass-clown.
I'm just sayin'.
When Life Gives You Plums... ...And you have freaky food allergies that prevent you from eating certain raw fruits, make dessert! The excess of fruit and its ripeness instilled in me an urgency to do something with them, lest they all go to waste. My solution? A plum tart. I messed up the recipe because I was engrossed in a movie while making it (note to self: pay attention to the recipe, not the TV), but it was a minor error which did not alter the tastiness factor at all.
I distributed the tart to my coworkers, who enjoyed it. Little do they know that it's all part of my evil plan to have them under my spell...
Berry Nice. Excess fruit seems to have been the theme for my weekend. In addition to the Kubota farm fruit, I also bought a lot of raspberries and blueberries. They looked so good; they were just asking to be bought...but once I took out all of the boxes, I quickly realized that there was no way I could singlehandedly eat them all. What's a girl to do? Obviously, make a dessert that she can share. I got a recipe from one of my favorite cupcake websites and made mint cream filled cupcakes with raspberry mousse frosting. Light and perfect for a summer day...
It's Good to Know People. 
Happy Belated 4th of July! While I always appreciate holidays, I would prefer that they fall on those dates that enable me to have a long weekend. The middle-of-the-week break is nice, but...you know what I mean.
So, back to knowing people. Through a mutual friend, I met a really nice girl whose family has a farm. They grow all sorts of fruit on the farm: plums, peaches, cherries, and more. She's been helping out at the farm this summer, and this weekend she brought back LOADS of fruit and invited people to stop by and just take what they wanted. Soooo delicious! Like I said, it's good to know people. Being one person, I didn't want to grab too much fruit, but she insisted I take more --- more than I could possibly eat myself --- so my family and coworkers will be the lucky people who know me. Then again, it's always a privilege to know me.
Take a look at the fruit goodness:
Sweet fruits of summer...
The Horror... After a beautiful day outside barbecuing, I went back home and turned on the TV. I went into the kitchen to put away our barbecue leftovers and returned to the living room. To my surprise, the television screen was completely black except for one brightly colored horizontal line. "It's an old TV," I thought, "Maybe I need to do the usual." I whacked the top of the set. Nothin'. I turned it off, gave it a couple of minutes, and turned it back on. Lo and behold, the picture was back!
Thirty seconds later, it was gone, and the dreaded horizontal line was back.
A day later, I had to face the cold, harsh reality that my TV was gone. And it wasn't coming back.
I'm so depressed.
Alec Baldwin...terrorist? Wow, the media cannot get enough of Alec Baldwin tearing his kid a new one over voicemail. I come home yesterday, grab my TV remote and press the numbers for what I think is CNN, but accidentally get the Fox News Channel instead. And what I see is either Hannity or Colmes (I don't know which is which) doing the usual Fox News Channel talk show thing. You know, where they invite a guest with an opposing opinion, ask the guest a question as if they actually want to hear the answer, and when the guest starts to answer, they talk/scream over him (which my mom taught me was rude), refusing to let the guest say a word, and then interpret this exchange as them "winning" the "debate." Hannity/Colmes is super pissed and thinks that the police need to investigate Alec Baldwin. After all, according to Hannity/Colmes: "'I'm gonna straighten your ass out.' Isn't that a terroristic threat?"
I hate these people.
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