Lady in the Water= Life Inspiration?

I saw the BEST movie yesterday. My friends and I rented Lady and the Water which is this crazy fantasy/thriller/really cool movie by M. Night Shamylan (duh spelling issues there). I won't spoil the ending since I'm planning to buy said movie and force you all to watch it with me, but there's a theme in it about dying for the benefit of the world, kinda MLK style, which brought up this discussion with my friends about whether you'd be willing to do sacrifice your life if you knew that it would cause the world to change and become a better place. They both said no. Any thoughts? We can have a night when I get back (the 7th) where we watch the movie, have friday night wine and philosophically discuss the meaning of life. It'll be shweet.

I'm SOOO excited to see every last one of you again. It's nice being home, but it's weird at the same time, and every one of my friends has been boyfriended and spends 80% of their time on the phone with said boyfriends. That's weird too. CANT'T WAIT TO SEE YOUUUUU!

-ATA

Lady in the Water= Life Inspiration?

I saw the BEST movie yesterday. My friends and I rented Lady and the Water which is this crazy fantasy/thriller/really cool movie by M. Night Shamylan (duh spelling issues there). I won't spoil the ending since I'm planning to buy said movie and force you all to watch it with me, but there's a theme in it about dying for the benefit of the world, kinda MLK style, which brought up this discussion with my friends about whether you'd be willing to do sacrifice your life if you knew that it would cause the world to change and become a better place. They both said no. Any thoughts? We can have a night when I get back (the 7th) where we watch the movie, have friday night wine and philosophically discuss the meaning of life. It'll be shweet.

I'm SOOO excited to see every last one of you again. It's nice being home, but it's weird at the same time, and every one of my friends has been boyfriended and spends 80% of their time on the phone with said boyfriends. That's weird too. CANT'T WAIT TO SEE YOUUUUU!

Resolve to Evolve

New years resolutions, anyone???

ps sunny eggs what do i do with your bag baaa send it to your house in that case whats your adress ???

pss peace and fro yo the id/money is in the mail!

up to date...dates are good, but not as good as raisens

Last night I partied in a Marriot hotel room with 9 other jews and 6 (real deal) arabs.If only the world could throw a giant hotel party, everything would be okay.

One of the jews (shes actually the president of Hillel at UofO) wants to go into middle east peace conflict, so shes learning arabic. The 6 arabs were UO students in her class.

It was a baby step. We were all in the same room, opposite sides of the room mostly, but we share a balcony when we wanted to smoke.

It was cool.

Group question: is there such a thing as TOO honest with mothers? I put some of that delicious red robin seasoning on some popcorn and my mother asks: what did you put on this?
Me: "red robin seasoning"
Mom: "Oh, hmm. did you buy it?"
Me: "No, I put it in my purse."
Mom: ( response-less)
That on top of being open about my recent liking to cigarillos....should i start lying, or at least, masking the truth? My philosophy is usually, don dont it if you couldnt admit it to your mother. it just so happens i admit everything to my mother so...fuck. i dunno. i iss yall, take 'er easy.

-BHG

my dad might be god? or jesus?

SO as many of you know (shout out to my WA homie Sunny Eggs), us here in seattle have experienced the Katrina of the Northwest complete with a black out across like 4 counties. Our power had been out for 2.5 days and it was the 3rd night of hannukkah. As we crowded around the fireplace for any semblance of warmth, my dad jokingly said "Let there be light!" I looked at him and said, "Dad, if that happened, I would believe." All of the sudden the lights went on!! Then my sister goes "Woah, dad, you're god!" and the lights go back off!! Woah. crazy. Like because she said something sacreligious the lights died again. They came back on about 3 hours later, but as this is the most interesting thing that has happened to me in seattle so far, i felt as if you'd all enjoy hearing it. Love/miss each and every one of you.
-Awkwardly Tan Aristotle

Death, you bitch, get out my way!

I dont know if this is crying wolf or just crying.

I WANT TO STOP HAVING NEAR DEATH EXPERIANCES!!!!!

I almost died again tonight driving home from the movies on a dark windy icy road. My car lost control. I swerved sideways into the other lane. This was the better of 2 options, because on the other side of me was a cliff*. there was a car about 15 feet ahead of me which obviously had trouble like i did, expect their car was hanging off a cliff by two side wheels and the people had gotten out and were waiting in the freezing elements trying to aviod cars like myself from hitting them in the spare time before Help came.

if i make it through the week, ill consider myself fucking blessed. happy fucking shabbat.

*cliff in portland is like a 45 foot nearly vertical hill of folliage,trees and the like.

death is only a minor detail

Today, i became a real woman.
To review ( especially for the goyim....), i officially became a woman chanting a dueterotomy torah portion as an awkward 13 year old behind the Havarah Shalom faux-wood biema. That day, i saw life from the top of roller coaster about to delve in the fast paced,exciting possiblities that layed ahead.
Cathliocs get 2 confirmations, so why shouldn't I? Like a bat mitzvah second coming,today i confronted life once again, but this time, i was sorounded by a hundred strangers and crying todlers instead of old jewish men in suits and birkenstocks. But both times people were praying .

Desipte the cheesy melodramtic tone, this is a true story. It didn't just happen in my bubble; i didn't dream it and someone convinced me it was life; i have the urine stains on my pants to prove it. ( okay, not really, but seriuosly it happened.)

By now you're either curious...or opened up facebook instead...as to what "it" was. What the fuck happened? Well, to start, It was suprisingly comical, and not just here in retrospect. As the flight attendents got everyones attention they retaught us how to sit when a plane crash's and how to jump off the bouncy exit slide. I wanted to ask a) if we crash, does the way we sit actually matter? and b) volunteer to be a bouncy slide manager because of my extensive experiance with inflatable toys. But i did neither, because i was scared and confused. The semi undecipherable god-like voice of the loudspeaker enlightened us all soon:" Fire...plane...can't land...turn...try lax...sorry...soo sorry...listen to the flight attendents."

Someone would assume at this point there would be mass chaos. I mean, i would. But nope. The opposite.Silence. I was sitting next to a 20 something asian lady who taught japaneese children english over in japan and an advertising hot shot about a year out of grad school who spent the 10 hours we spent together either sleeping or dopey and dazed. The three of us hadn't exchanged a single word until this point, but something happened in those few minutes when we thought we could, possibly die, if not get injurged. We all started making these disturbily hallirous jokes about our own demise, the plane crashing, and "at least we can go down with a laugh" attiude.It was amazing.

Eventually we did land back in la, we did have to evacuate the plane because it was unflyable, and a firetruck did come rushing up as soon as we landed and went RIGHT UNDERNEATH where my window was. Yup, i was sitting on top of the fire....sweeeeet.

So, moarl of the story- about 10+ hours spent in airports and flying and landing and flying and landing again- is that laughter is miraculous, able to lighten a lethal situation. even with strangers. laughter is so fucking awesome. yeah....

-bhg