So I have a new blog, and it is at:

http://youngromantic.wordpress.com/

I don't want to say anything wicked about LJ, but I feel it's time to move on to the big bad world of WordPress.  I will still use this one to lurk other peoples' blogs and occasionally to write about that which is too personal for WordPress.

I've had this blog since my second- ( Read more... )

A year in review.

I think I do this every year.

Directions:
Go to your blog archives, and copy & paste the first paragraph from the first journal entry of each month for the entire year, and there you will have the year in review.

Proceed:

January
You know the year is going to rock when the first thing you see on TV after watching re-runs of "The ( Read more... )

Ironically, I just accidentally deleted this whole entry when I was cleaning my keyboard and clicked on an ad, thus erasing everything I wrote.  Lovely.

...

Life is not, nor should we ever expect it to be, perfect.

We are allowed to make mistakes, and make them with enthusiasm.

Since the Garden of Eden, life has not been perfect.  Why is it then that ( Read more... )

P.S. I Love You (2007) is not a good movie.

I wanted to like it.  It had a scant few redeeming moments that filled me with hope, with the possibility of liking it.

I know.  I'm a terrible girl.  I also did not like/did not see the point of Moulin Rouge (2001), but that's another film review blog for another time, my friends.

The whole movie felt way ( Read more... )

Here's my past few weeks, in a nutshell:

--finished 4 final essays (roughly 10-12 pages each), 1 take-home exam, 2 holiday articles for the holiday issue of The Brock Press, and 1 final project

--last Thursday: went to the Dinner of Miracles for Yad Vashem at the Sephardic Kehlia Centre in Thornhill.  First time Christians were invited to the event ( Read more... )

Ever listen to a piece of music that makes your soul leap, that brings tears to your eyes because of its beauty? 
Music that (sorry for being sentimental here) speaks to you and reflects your heart at that precise moment?

Why have I never heard "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel before today?

I came to this song in an odd and funny way.  I watched this ( Read more... )

Let's see.

3 essays, okay?  10-12 pages each.
One due Tuesday, one due Wednesday, one due Dec. 15.
Nearly halfway through the first one.
Getting over a nasty cold which has found its way to my head.

Finding absolutely anything I can find to distract me, mostly on the internet - the wealth of distractions.

This is how I roll, baby.  This is how I roll.

This is my current desktop background.
I found it when I was google-image searching "dreidel" for my Hanukkah article. 
You gotta love google image searches.

I also found this wonder of wonders:

I believe this is Mac the Magic Dreidel (sung to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon)
LOOK I'M PERSONALIZED!

There seems to be so much SMUT in popular culture lately (lately!  I know, I'm a little behind), that I feel is a little excessive.

And I'm not even a prude.

More later.

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
• Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall.

"One night, so great was the enthusiasm invoked by the young revivalist that, after his sermon which lasted two hours, the vast congregation remained praying and singing until two-thirty ( Read more... )