Do people not read?:

I was jus watching Jeopardy! and not only was there shocking geographical ignorance displayed (no one got the Final Jeopardy, with answer the Arabian Sea after a good description of its location) but nobody knew anything about European authors.

I mean, I'm not very literary, but I knew that Kundera was Czech, Raskolnikov was the main character in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and Gunther Grass wrote the Tin Drum. These aren't hard, but they all went dead (some guessed Tolstoy on Raskolnikov and Hesse on Tin Drum, but no one even guessed on Kundera).

Maybe I should go on Jeopardy!

Plastic surgery shows:

Thanks to my current roommate, I've developed an addiction to the plastic surgery shows on Discovery Health Channel.

It turns out I feel pretty strongly about this. The 18 year old girl who just had a nose job and is now having a breast augmentation, the woman who's had about 15 procedures in her life, the overweight (and probably already at least a C cup) woman who's getting a breast augmentation, it all just makes me so sad.

There are plenty of people on these shows who really need plastic surgery. There will be someone who lost a lot of weight and has a lot of excess skin, or someone with a big birthmark on their face or a small young woman with DD breasts who needs a breast reduction or something.

But most of them, well, they don't really need a brow lift, or a breast augmentation and afterwards it looks fake, because, well it is. They can't really fight time, and the more they try, the worse it looks and the older they look.

Maybe it's easy to say this when the flight attendant still asks me if I'm at least 15, though. Maybe I'll be just as afraid of looking old when I hit 50.

No more UChicago email:

NSIT figured out that I graduated, so I no longer will have UofC email. I spent some time dealing with that, so no pictures are up yet. Sorry. I did put them on my parents' computer and some of them came out really well, so hopefully soon I'll have time.

Got sick on NYE and didn't go out at all. Oh well, there's always next year.