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Sunday Summary #12: What’s On the Internet

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Articles

1|  I went to a baby shower this weekend, so Amanda Machado’s article about the cultural values we learn by celebrating weddings and babies and bypassing career accomplishments and life experiences hit especially hard.  I live for the day that I can attend a Travel Shower or a New Job Shower.

2|  WOW, what a beautiful description of the pain that comes at the intersection of mental illness and faith.  Molly Polig opens up about her lifelong struggles with depression, anxiety, and self-harm, and how trusting in God through all of that makes it both better and worse.

And now, the Star Wars-related things on the Internet!

1|  S. Jae Jones has the same reaction I did while watching the movie: delighted disbelief at seeing herself (as a female) all over the screen!

2|  Tasha Robinson counters the claims that Rey is a Mary Sue with the admission that hey, haven’t male characters been overly competent/skilled/suave FOREVER?   I’m perfectly happy to sit back and enjoy a female character that is too good to be true.

3|  John Green nerds out about how The Force Awakens brings back the mythic quality of the original trilogy that was so lacking in the prequels.

Letters Between Friends: HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE!

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Last week Lindsay answered some hilarious questions in her letter to me.  This week I complained and celebrated in my letter to her!  Check it out on her blog, Wild Ginger.

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Ten Years Ago…TEENAGE THOUGHTS ON LOVE

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TEN YEARS AGO

Friday, December 23, 2005

Last night was my favorite moment of Roy/Carrie visiting.  Why?  Because Roy asked Mom and I to watch some Lost with him (he’d watched the first six episodes while sick).  So we watched one, and when it was over, Roy sad, “Well, we can’t stop there!”  We really are siblings, after all.  So we watched another.

Today they’re gone for who knows how long.  It’s nice to be back to only-child status, being lazy, eating junk food, and using Roy’s computer and the TV all day without fear of disapproval.  Maybe I’ll miss them later.

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Here are some of my recent thoughts on my relationships with others: Continue reading →

Sunday Summary #11: What’s on the Internet

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Articles

1|  Rachel Held Evans wrote a really beautiful piece about how we can never escape the faith of our childhood or arrive at a new “better” faith.  Instead, we wrestle with acknowledging our privilege and interpretations as we seek deeper truths, celebrating and critiquing the Church as we do so.

2|  David Schell wrote about how the angst of Advent was transformed into joy when he heard about the warm welcome offered to Syrian refugees in Canada.  It’s a super heartwarming look at what happens when Advent becomes real.

3|  Jaya Saxena wrote a school report about the life of Alexander Hamilton based only on the musical with no historical context, and it is hilarious!

Today I am going to talk to you about America’s ten dollar founding father without a father, Alexander Hamilton.

Alexander Hamilton was an important figure in American history for many reasons. He was America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, founded the New York Post, and together with his friend and rival Aaron Burr invented rap in 1776.

Videos

1|  Buzzfeed has been doing a lot of amazing articles and videos for their Mental Health Week, and I especially loved watching the Try Guys go to Therapy.  Their videos are usually based on humor, so it was really cool to see them open up about themselves to each other in a group therapy session.

2|  Star Wars stars  (old and new) create an a capella music medley with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots!!

3|  Another Star Wars song!  This one is a parody/summary with killer harmonies.

Letters Between Friends: PLAYING HOOKIE AND THROWING COLD SPAGHETTI

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Last week I asked Lindsay some weird questions (stolen from Grace Helbig’s podcast Not Too Deep), and this week she answered them!  AFTER she emotionally toyed with me by almost committing to skipping work and hanging out in Chicago with me for a day, but I’ll forgive that because her answers are hilarious.   Continue reading →

Ten Years Ago…DREAMS OF ENVY

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TEN YEARS AGO

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

I have slept and read my free evening away.  It’s been wonderful.

Last night I had two really odd dreams.  In the first, Joel…my pastor…invited me to a bar because he had some huge, tragic news to share.  I assume to lessen the blow of the revelation, he bought me a green margarita.  I don’t remember anything but the drink–and that it surprised me that he would buy it, seeing as how we are Baptists and I’m a minor.

Secondly, I dreamed I was escaping from a concentration camp of sorts.  Of course it wasn’t so terrible as reality.  I remember planning secretly with a group of others, among them Allison Brown and Josh Ng.  We decided to paint ourselves green all over, which we did at a huge vat of green–something or other.  Then we paired up as if strolling around peacefully (I don’t remember if we were still green) and wandered nonchalantly to a nearby parking lot.  There we proceeded to cram over twenty people into a fancy car, somehow without problem or notice.  Then I woke up.

I’m not really a big believer of deciphering dreams and all that, though I do think people or situations that are a big part of your waking life can pop up in dreams.   Continue reading →

Sunday Summary #10: What’s on the Internet

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1|  This hilariously over-the-top description of one man watching Hamilton and being forever changed made me laugh out loud three times.

Intermission arrived. We all sat stunned in our seats, unable to move, unable to leave the temple that this theater had become. Many were rocking and weeping; others soiled themselves. I tried to recall the details of my life before this moment, but nothing came: All I was, all I ever would be, was a person seeing Hamilton.

2|  I’m guilty of under-appreciating Martha Jones (I mourned Rose for a long time), but this blog post helped me remember the Doctor’s companion’s awesomeness!

3|  The remake of Final Fantasy 7 is apparently going to be episodic.  I’m totally okay with paying all the monies, but I’m going to HATE waiting.  What a geeky conundrum.

4|  One of my favorite things in the world is when Stephen Colbert goes on a Tolkien rant, and this one (where he channels Atticus Finch in order to exonerate a Turkish man) is one of his best.

5|  WHAT A TRAGEDY.  On Friday, our last day in New York City, I said, “We should try to get on Stephen Colbert’s show like we did Seth Meyer’s.”  But it was north of everything else to do, so we passed the opportunity by, TO MY NOW IMMENSE REGRET.  Who appeared as a guest on Friday’s show and had a rap battle with Colbert?  Lin-Manuel Miranda himself.  THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE (uh, second best, after Hamilton itself).

Letters Between Friends: Q&A

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Last week Lindsay asked me some questions, and I commented my answers.  This week I asked her some…weirder questions!  Check it out on her blog, Wild Ginger!

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TEN YEARS AGO…Chicago Photography Field Trip

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I’m trying something different this week.  Instead of writing my response at the end of the post, I’m going to insert comments into the piece itself [TODAY: like this].  Hopefully this will flow a little better!

TEN YEARS AGO

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

It was a grand (but cold) day in the Windy City.  Seriously…I had so much fun.  Michelle and Jill are great people to wander Chicago with. [TODAY: When I was in Chicago with Kelly a couple weeks ago, I told her all about this field trip!  I didn’t realize that it had been exactly ten years…cute.]

The three hour ride up was less than thrilling.  We watched various Will Farrell stuff, and that was funny, but it got a little long.  [TODAY: Cue pretentiousness.]  Then we arrived at Navy Pier, where we (M, J, and Julia) ate lunch, took some pictures, and shopped a bit.  At first it felt really weird carrying a camera around my neck, but I got used to it.  It helped that there were 50 other kids in the near vicinity doing the same thing.

Around one we went to the art institute, which wasn’t very exciting at first, because we (M and J) didn’t know where to go.  So we headed to the cafe and ate a brownie.  [TODAY:  Hahaha, when in doubt – EAT!]  Eventually we found a section of paintings, which I really liked.  And it was even cooler because there were students there painting…paintings.  We took a couple pictures of that.  Then we walked over to Millennium Park and took pictures of crazy art forms, people, and ice skating.  It was freezing.  I ended up wearing a hat, it was so cold.  Crazy. [TODAY:  lol, this is an incredibly strange comment to make, but you just have to know I hate how I look wearing a hat, so it really was a big deal.]   Continue reading →

Sunday Summary #9: What’s On the Internet

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1|  Intrepid Travel has created a year-long adventurer’s trek across the world, and I want to go so badly!  Covering “34 countries, 5 continents and over 200 breakfasts” (lol) it’s not a bad deal at $75,000.  Anyone want to fund me?

2|  I am so late to the Kid President game, but his pep talk is a thing of pure beauty.  “We got work to do – we can cry about it, or we can dance about it.”

3|  J.J. Abrams explicitly says his new Star Wars movie was made so that women and girls would feel included in the universe, and my 8-year-old self is SO HAPPY.  I’ve seen commercials where a young brother and sister team up to take down Stormtroopers with lightsabers, and I’m so glad a new nerdy generation will be raised without all the “I’m a girl – should I like this?” shame that I did.

4|  I’ve never watched The Tudors, but this emotional reaction to the historical inaccuracies feels like it could apply to most TV shows (and movies.)

5|  One Direction was on The Late Late Show with James Corden, where Harry lost a game of tattoo roulette and Louis sat on James’s lap pretending to be a cat, and I had absolutely zero feelings involving tearing my eyeballs out of their sockets and/or shouting into the sun.

6|  White Walls & Wanderlust put together a list of Christmas gift ideas, and I fell in love with the Etsy shop ResilienceStreetwear, which has t-shirts that say things like “Single and ready to get nervous around anyone I find attractive.”