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My Nine Favorite Selfies

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I was recently deleting videos/photos from my iPhoto library, because our IT guy said, “Wow, your computer is slow,” and I respond quickly to criticism.  As I was scrolling through, I had a realization:  I’m super cute!  So in the interest of positivity and pro-selfie culture (which I’ve defended here), here are my nine favorite selfies.

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One of the first selfies in iPhoto, I think this really captures how hard I try to keep in my wild adoration of Rory.

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This is one of my favorite pictures of all time, documenting one of my favorite nights of all time: drinking wine with Michal Ann in Austin, binge-watching Hey USA on YouTube.  Continue reading →

4 Guilty Pleasures

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Whenever I feel guilty or ashamed about liking something, my coping strategy goes like this:  casually mention it in a way disassociated from myself.  Bring it up again, with a little humor added.  Talk about it ALL THE TIME ALWAYS until people beg me to shut up.  Write a blog post about it.

Although I have grown in self-confidence and I don’t quite care as much what people think about me or my opinions, my guilty pleasures are still pleasures that make me feel guilty, as though I am too old, too mature, too whatever to like the things that I like.  I will probably always have the spectre of Other People’s Judgments hanging over my head, but today I’m saying “I don’t care!” by fangirling real hard about the dumb things that I love.  Continue reading →

Selfie Culture: I’m a Fan

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It seems to be a cool thing to denigrate Generation Y as being self-absorbed and entitled.  A lot of this has to do with my generation’s love of social media and the rise of the selfie art form.  And sure, there are some problematic tendencies with my peers’ culture.  Are we sometimes self-absorbed and entitled?  Sure.  But I don’t think selfie culture is all bad.

Ezra Koenig, lead singer of the awesome band Vampire Weekend, once said something that completely solidified my positive opinion of selfies.

“I’m definitely pro-selfie.  I think that anybody who’s anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn’t people take pictures of themselves? When I’m on Instagram and I see that somebody took a picture of themselves, I’m like, ‘Thank you.’ I don’t need to see a picture of the sky, the trees, plants. There’s only one you.  I could Google image search ‘the sky’ and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can’t Google, you know, ‘What does my friend look like today?’ For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world – I think that’s a great thing.”

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