From the Deep.

Hello. I have not updated in quite a bit, if you hadn't noticed. Life changed unexpectedly, and I haven't had many moments to think.

I have a new job!

But who would have thought I would be here?

To reward myself, I bought myself a new MacBook, which I am typing on right now as I use the wireless Internet at a library. Lovely stuff. I'm updating my software, and there are a lot of updates...

I...obtained the new Kanye West album, Graduation, and I must admit I greatly prefer his two previous albums. There are some good songs on the new album, but mixed in are some truly horrendous songs, such as "Drunk and Hot Girls."

I'm close to getting a hold of the new Rilo Kiley album, Under the Blacklight, and I'm a bit nervous about it because, well, I've heard they've changed their sound significantly, in an effort to be more "mainstream," I presume, and that worries me. Rilo Kiley is my favorite band, and I prefer them just the way they are.

"How do you dream, when you can't fall asleep?"

My mom and I watched Becoming Jane in the movie theater today. All of my favorite authors in those times, Jane Austen, the Brontes, led such tragic lives. Of course, I'm sure most of this movie is speculation, but there were letters in Jane Austen's real life, leading me to think the basis of this movie isn't entirely radical, and she did die rather young, at least by our standards.

I hope no one ever makes a movie of the three Bronte sisters - that would be too depressing for words. All three of them die young, and within several years of each other (and their brother). Emily died shortly after she published Wuthering Heights. God, can you even imagine what else she could have written?

Anyway, the movie was good. Of course, I love those old England period pieces. I'm in the middle of watching the BBC's Persuasion miniseries from...geez, probably the '70s. I can't wait until the new adaptions air - sometime this year! I heart the BBC.

"How do you dream, when you can't fall asleep?"

My mom and I watched Becoming Jane in the movie theater today. All of my favorite authors in those times, Jane Austen, the Brontes, led such tragic lives. Of course, I'm sure most of this movie is speculation, but there were letters in Jane Austen's real life, leading me to think the basis of this movie isn't entirely radical, and she did die rather young, at least by our standards.

I hope no one ever makes a movie of the three Bronte sisters - that would be too depressing for words. All three of them die young, and within several years of each other (and their brother). Emily died shortly after she published Wuthering Heights. God, can you even imagine what else she could have written?

Anyway, the movie was good. Of course, I love those old England period pieces. I'm in the middle of watching the BBC's Persuasion miniseries from...geez, probably the '70s. I can't wait until the new adaptions air - sometime this year! I heart the BBC.

Like Christmas.

Ahahahaha.

I love it.

Michigan lost to a little I-AA team! At Ann Arbor! Oh, that is hilarious. Poor little Michigan, who was supposed to be better than The Ohio State this year, who was supposed to win the national championship. Hahaha. Their season is DONE. They might as well pack it up and not even play another game this season.

From Sept. 10 issue of ESPN the Magazine:

NFL 2007
14% believe the Browns have finally found a way to stop Jamal Lewis

Haha. Poor Browns.

A book.

I'm reading Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body by Courtney E. Martin, and I am incredibly disappointed. I'm not going to finish reading it, because I don't like having a scowl on my face the entire time I'm reading something. I was so looking forward to reading this book, but it's such a failure at what I assume the author was trying to accomplish. Here's this young woman, writing about eating disorders and the emphasis on women to be "perfect." I would think that I would come away from this book feeling as though beautiful women come in all shapes and sizes, but I don't. I would think that I wouldn't encounter sizest language and comments, but I do (however unconscious they may be). I can't imagine how this book would be helpful to anyone. Every women she mentions is divided into "thin" and "fat" - I wonder why there is no in-between, what her divisions are based on, and why can't a woman just be? She doesn't challenge what is considered beautiful or healthy, and when she makes some half-assed attempt, I don't believe her. There are much better books on weight issues out there that aren't written by someone who seems to want to make both "fat" and "thin" women feel ashamed and worthless.