mostly unedited
here are some shots i took in the fens today. some of them are edited, most are not. i'll probably sit down and work on them over the weekend, but i just wanted to post them up hur for now
VIRGIN SHAMING
It never ceases to amaze me the reactions I get when someone asks me about the "dudes currently in my life." It's a pretty happenin' topic amongst my friends, and the first one that usually comes up during family dinners and holiday parties. Sometimes, my friends and cousins even go as far as reassuring me that's it's okay to be single, and it'll happen when the time is ripe. Okay, to start off, who ever said that the number one rule of being a freshman is to have an extensive hook-up list of somewhat correct first names and displaced nights in some type of order that somehow correlates the amount of "fun" I'm having in college?Just because I'm a virgin does not mean a) I'm a devout believer in Christ and I'm waiting for marriage b) I never go out and have fun or c) I'm a lesbian(my personal favorite.) Sometimes, it even goes as far as virgin shaming. That's right- virgin shaming. I don't understand why people feel the need to judge others based on the amount of sexual activity they choose to engage in, or in my case, not engage in. It's none of your business, and it says nothing about the person besides his/her personal preferences. Virgin shaming, slut shaming - they're both derived from the idea of judging a person because on something like how much sex he/she has, which is stupid. Some people have more morals than others, and that's perfectly okay. Some people really enjoy sex, and that's okay too. We're all different and believe in different things, so who gets to constitute what is "normal" and what is "slutty" or "too weird?"
To wrap it up, I just wanted to say that virgin shaming is a real thing, and something I occasionally deal with, which to me is absurd, but WHATEVER. I AM WAITING ON THE RIGHT PERSON, AND I AM NOT ASHAMED OR A HERMIT (can't vouch for the latter but w/e).
Unfortunately, spring break is over, and I am currently sobbing as I watch the videos I took of my cats sleeping/dying from the earlier seasons of Community. Some people (the majority of the population) think my undying love for my cats is, ya know, somewhat atypical and "really weird" but I like to think of it as an idiosyncrasy. It was really great to be back home though. I really missed my family. A large portion of my extended family frequent my house on Sundays including my nephew and niece, Daniel and Emma. I took them out on a walk, caught up with their busy social lives, and bought them some treats.
I didn't get to take a lot of photographs over break, and my scheduled shoots didn't pull through, because of my intensive, boot-camp esque week full of driving lessons and rescheduled dinner dates with friends/good company/older cousins/random strangers. I went through a lot of practice with my teacher and basically relearned how to drive in a few days, because a) i am a horrible driver in general b) i basically forgot how to drive since the last time i touched a steering wheel was in July c) i suck. at. driving. Anyways! My test was scheduled for Friday morning, and of course, in the middle of March, it would start snowing during the that entire morning. My family had 0% hope in me anyways, and now that the snow was just making it's way in Philly, my mom reminded me to renew my permit and schedule another driving test.
OH BUT GUESS WHAT?! I PASSED. AND THE INSTRUCTOR SAID I DID A VERY GREAT JOB. I went through all of Friday telling my family members that I failed then bam. bam. bam bam. Anyways, I am still a terrible driver, so I advise the people of the greater Philadelphia area to indefinitely consider the roads during the summer months.
SPRING BREAK 2K13 NEVER FORGET.
Round the Web: First Week of March
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Happy (three days into) March! I've settled into my permanent residency in my bed with my two cats, eaten an unnecessary amount of Korean food/Chupa Chups lollipops, and have taken one too many photos of my babies sleeping.. Anyways, I wanted to post this week's links!
Do you know what throws me into an uncontrollable rage of giggles and smiles? ANIMALS. Especially cute photographs of cats, dogs, animal friendships - basically, anything that isn't a human and has fur will throw me into a full-fledged daze much like a play-by-play stream of a middle schooler in love.
Candice, proud owner of Champ, takes very beautiful photographs of her dog whilst smiling. This impressive shot with a butterfly on his nose was not Photoshopped, but a purely natural incident!
You can find these majestic, surreal-looking ice caves in Kamchatka, a peninsula situated in Eastern Russia. Volcanoes and glaciers have aided in the formation of these beautiful caves, and due to global warming/the business of volcanoes melting glaciers in recent years(look at the former), these caves provide a wonderful look into the convergence, diffraction, and divergence of light meeting ice. Definitely putting this on my list of places to visit.
How can you spend(waste) 1-2 million dollars? A letter by Francis Crick to his son, Michael, is being auctioned off at Christie's on April 10. This letter was written post-hey-we-discovered-DNA-Michael!-deoxyribonucleic-acid-for-the-win! Why am I so bitter, you ask? Because everyone knows that Francis Crick and James Watson are the founders of DNA even though they stole 50% of the work from Rosalind Franklin, who indefinitely helped them achieve the end result without any due credit. Thanks, dudes. More about that later, but anyways, I really dislike Watson & Crick, especially the former since he is a raging d-bag, but whatever, check more out on that here.
AND JUST TO STATE MY UTTER GRIEVANCES FOR THE WORLD AND A CALCULATED MISTAKE, "Keep Calm and Hit Her" oh, and "Keep Calm and Rape on" were just removed off from Amazon. I know it was a mistake, but I mean... Still. Let's just take a moment to think about other facets of society that take rape as "an experience every college student should experience" and one that is now starting to gain more prominence. Kudos to the House for passing the VAWA. Love you.
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