<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835</id><updated>2012-02-16T02:21:26.389-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Don't Stop</title><subtitle type='html'>'Til You Get Enough</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-449589017220220584</id><published>2011-01-03T06:56:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T07:47:12.972-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Words</title><content type='html'>This post is inspired by &lt;a href="http://www.reocities.com/sogna/august.html"&gt;the middle school days&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I woke up probably around 10am (after setting an alarm for 7am with the hopes of maybe going to the gym) and have spent the day eating, cleaning, and perusing the internet, much like yesterday.  Though yesterday I watched three episode of glee and the movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is now about 3pm and I have a load of laundry in both the washer and dryer and all my dishes are done except one knife that I just used to put some peanut butter on a banana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as I can bring myself to say about the passing of Dave Marriner: &lt;br /&gt;Somehow I imagine a TMB wake is in order.  If it would happen for anyone, it would happen for him. Two things I couldn't get myself to tweet: "The Trojan Family has lost a hero." and the eerie fact that I heard this news and watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on the same day.  Two stories of the tragic death of a compelling man.  Which drove me to contemplate whether the comparison of the two men was in fact flattering or offensive.  Gut reaction is flattering, but again, I didn't know Dave well.  I basically knew him well enough to  wish I knew him better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although it is a Monday it is a bank holiday here in England, which means no one has any expectations for me to be productive, though I have some expectations of my own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Had a completely awesome time with Heather, Erin, and Craig visiting Monday-4am Sunday.  We were in London til Thursday, and then chilled here in Oxford on Friday and Saturday.  London involved lots of being angry at craig and eating mediocre food, but we did see some ridiculous historical things (rosetta stone, magna carta, st. paul's, buckingham palace, the Elgin Marbles, etc.) and learned about the shows 'distraction' and 'sugar rush' while meeting ridiculous people from all over the world at the hosel.  Oxford was more relaxed, but we still had to suffer the walk from my place to town whenever we went in.  We cooked full English breakfasts both mornings we were here, and then cooked a chicken on Saturday night.  We also took some tours of cool Oxford stuff, focusing on Christ Church College, cause I could get us in for free, and because it's the coolest one (harry potter, alice in wonderland, henry VII, etc).  We also ate and drank at the Turf Tavern, the pub where Bill Clinton 'did not inhale' and The Eagle &amp;amp; Child, the pub where The Inklings (a writers group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein) used to meet on Thursday nights in the 30's according to Wikipedia.  New Years Eve didn't turn out quite how I expected, but it was probably better in many ways.  We ended up having a dance party in the Christ Church Graduate Common Room, which was Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)'s former room, that was also the guest room for Einstein when he visited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also we ate Kidney. Yum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I'm going to check my Laundry, try to write a script for a short film, and make an outline for that article I said I'd write. Maybe I'll also do some work or go grocery shopping. In reality I'll probably just watch the last three episodes of glee.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-449589017220220584?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/449589017220220584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-words.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/449589017220220584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/449589017220220584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-words.html' title='Some Words'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-1583020635166921893</id><published>2010-09-05T21:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T21:50:52.190-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thinking about England again</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;When I first got back from England October last year.  I was homesick for the place as if I had lived there for years.  I listened to the song's on this band stornoway's myspace page and lilly allen's myspace page and vampire weekend's myspace page over and over again, just because they made me feel like the place. Dunno why, but they did.   I have since gotten over this.  It almost seems like a hassle to go back right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 212px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/TIRxLCes39I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/IgU6tzpAnW8/s400/stornoway.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513656278266470354" /&gt;Until recently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now it all seems just right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've started lis&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;te&lt;/span&gt;ning to Stornoway again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNS3_eRQspc"&gt;FUEL UP - Stornoway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Curled up in the back of the car&lt;br /&gt;Nine years old you don't know where you are&lt;br /&gt;And your head's on the window, your eyes are just closed&lt;br /&gt;There's a voice in the front and a hush on the road&lt;br /&gt;You're a passenger but your mind is travelling on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open your eyes and you're nine years older&lt;br /&gt;Hands on the wheel and you're racing on over&lt;br /&gt;To lie with your first love, you can't wait to see her&lt;br /&gt;You borrowed the car and you think you're the driver&lt;br /&gt;But now you're the passenger to your own heart&lt;br /&gt;and it takes you travelling, travelling on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the morning broke and the sky fell down&lt;br /&gt;It went black as night and the wind blew round&lt;br /&gt;And stole your directions, you lost your way home&lt;br /&gt;And you felt like a passenger left by the road&lt;br /&gt;But I'll tell you the reason you couldn't get home&lt;br /&gt;Cause there's nowhere you've been and it's nowhere you're going&lt;br /&gt;Home is only a feeling you get in your mind&lt;br /&gt;From the people you love and you travel beside&lt;br /&gt;You may feel like a passenger but now you're the driver&lt;br /&gt;You've got to go travelling, travelling on&lt;br /&gt;Because if you break down, it's a cold, hard shoulder&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/TIRxp-dxc_I/AAAAAAAAAKA/kzL3nnMNUvk/s400/StornowayA3Low.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513656809764778994" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "&gt;So fuel up your mind and fire up your heart and drive on&lt;br /&gt;Drive on, drive on&lt;br /&gt;And when your days are darker, put your foot down harder&lt;br /&gt;Drive on, drive on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it's nine more years you've been driving now&lt;br /&gt;But tonight you're stumbling through your old town&lt;br /&gt;You met up with a schoolfriend who's still just the same&lt;br /&gt;And you talked all the same shit you talked in those days&lt;br /&gt;And now you're drunk and you're sad for the old times passing you by&lt;br /&gt;For there's no rewind so you might as well play while your time is rolling away&lt;br /&gt;And get back on the road, it's a beautiful day&lt;br /&gt;Pick up all the friends you can find on your way&lt;br /&gt;And if you lose direction they'll be there guiding you on&lt;br /&gt;Guiding you, guiding you on.&lt;br /&gt;Because we're all going the same way down this long road&lt;br /&gt;Yes, we're all bound the same way down this long, long road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So fuel up your mind and fire up your heart and drive on&lt;br /&gt;Drive on, drive on&lt;br /&gt;And when your days are darker, put your foot down harder&lt;br /&gt;Drive on&lt;br /&gt;Fuel up, and drive on&lt;br /&gt;Fuel up, and drive on&lt;br /&gt;Drive on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-1583020635166921893?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/1583020635166921893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/09/thinking-about-england-again.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1583020635166921893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1583020635166921893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/09/thinking-about-england-again.html' title='Thinking about England again'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/TIRxLCes39I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/IgU6tzpAnW8/s72-c/stornoway.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-1398548160317161159</id><published>2010-09-02T10:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-02T11:10:38.691-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I like blogger</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/TH_mtg99ZwI/AAAAAAAAAJw/TWmgSmH5Hu0/s1600/twitdaga.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 190px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/TH_mtg99ZwI/AAAAAAAAAJw/TWmgSmH5Hu0/s200/twitdaga.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512378138543089410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I'm in the process of trying to make like... a "public persona" on the internet.  It's so bizarre to like... decide which parts of me should be shown to the public and which shouldn't.  The weirdest part about it, is that the people whose tweets I follow and whose blog posts I read occasionally really seem like they leave nothing except their exact name and location at the door.  But it's obviously not the case.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's confusing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, dunno if this blog will continue, or if I will decide to use IT as a part of my public persona.  But then I'll have like four million avatars.  Maybe I'll migrate this blogspot thing to "frostedbeagels.blogspot" so that my frosedbeagels twitter coordinates to my personal blog and my thegreatantidote blog coordinates to my &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/dagreatantidote"&gt;dagreatantidote&lt;/a&gt; twitter.  One public and the other private.  Note: there is apparently a character limit on twitter account names, such that I had to use "da" instead of "the".   When I realized this I got a little happy inside, cause it meant that I could use the nickname "Lady daGA".  Lol.  Dork.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also.  I like blogger.  I've been checking out posterous and wordpress for this more professional internet Sonya, and so far I am not impressed.  We'll see.  I feel like blogger is increasingly becoming extinct, but I'm not quite sure why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least it's not Xanga.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-1398548160317161159?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/1398548160317161159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-like-blogger.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1398548160317161159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1398548160317161159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-like-blogger.html' title='I like blogger'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/TH_mtg99ZwI/AAAAAAAAAJw/TWmgSmH5Hu0/s72-c/twitdaga.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-3140832784494264156</id><published>2010-06-17T09:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T09:10:36.807-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Not about women and kids</title><content type='html'>I almost posted this as a comment on someone's blog who was legimately having a conversation about it and talking about women and kids and work and whatever.  Really I respect that, but this is more about the conversation in general than the place of women and kids, which I think is a much more complex issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want to say this, almost to see if I'm the only one who feels this way.  I just started grad school a year ago, and at that time the place I'm at had all these things about the "work-life balance" and I thought it was great. I was like "yay, they DO care about me."  Now one year in, I'm pretty tired of hearing about it, and am not looking forward to having the discussion every year of grad/postdoc/assprof/prof as if it is some sort of new phenom that is exclusive to academia.  It's just life. Work is a part of life, if your having a problem and wish you watched more TV with your hubby, then do it. If your job doesn't let you do that and you want to, find another job. I don't mean to sound bitter, but I guess I am reminded of that time when I was a senior in high school and there was a "what to expect in college" forum for a bunch of us nerds, and this girl asks if there's time to have a social life in college, and the guy just looked at her as if she was crazy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-3140832784494264156?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/3140832784494264156/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/06/not-about-women-and-kids.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/3140832784494264156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/3140832784494264156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/06/not-about-women-and-kids.html' title='Not about women and kids'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-2092517375408484553</id><published>2010-02-15T19:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T19:10:20.075-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I think I just got something...</title><content type='html'>So Coach Taylor in&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; Friday Night Lights&lt;/span&gt; likes to talk about, you know "Going back to why we PLAY football in the first place."  It's just a game, it's just for fun.  We PLAY it because we like it, because it's a game kids start to play after school in the yard.  Forget all this politics and crap, and play the game you love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it's the same with scientists (and probably any other field, too).  It's all just a game, just puzzles, just problems you have fun solving.  Like a crossword or chess or sudoku, or trying to guess the end of a movie.    I think all too often people get bogged down in the seriousness of it.  In the money, in the personal reputations, in the livelihood they hope to gain from it.  Joy is much simpler than that.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway.  I think I've still got that UAH shooting on my mind. Crazy shit, that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-2092517375408484553?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/2092517375408484553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-think-i-just-got-something.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/2092517375408484553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/2092517375408484553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-think-i-just-got-something.html' title='I think I just got something...'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-1884957050623082443</id><published>2010-02-12T06:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T07:04:25.922-08:00</updated><title type='text'>First official work day of the week...</title><content type='html'>... AND IT'S FRIDAY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S3Vq-ceBczI/AAAAAAAAAIs/uZwKlC-FICQ/s1600-h/IMG_1855.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S3Vq-ceBczI/AAAAAAAAAIs/uZwKlC-FICQ/s320/IMG_1855.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437369746146292530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been going a little nuts.  Just you know... where you start getting pissed at people for no real reason, and get a little passive aggressive.   It's happening right now between me and my housemates because we're not used to spending this much time together. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pictures are from a walk with housemates on Saturday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S3VttxaKDLI/AAAAAAAAAI0/1-9UFfWwJis/s1600-h/IMG_1852.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S3VttxaKDLI/AAAAAAAAAI0/1-9UFfWwJis/s320/IMG_1852.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437372758244330674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-1884957050623082443?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/1884957050623082443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-official-work-day-of-week.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1884957050623082443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1884957050623082443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-official-work-day-of-week.html' title='First official work day of the week...'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S3Vq-ceBczI/AAAAAAAAAIs/uZwKlC-FICQ/s72-c/IMG_1855.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-3818436324275519157</id><published>2010-02-10T12:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T13:18:57.340-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snowed-in Thought of the Day</title><content type='html'>If Dan is right, and he may just be, especially considering &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html"&gt;the recent supreme court decision&lt;/a&gt;, consumers should seriously be thinking about where they spend their money.  I'm not sure exactly how I started thinking about this just now, but part of the development of my train of thought took me back to some stuff in the movie Food Inc. that rung particularly true.  Consumers need to treat every dollar they spend as a vote.  If you buy a Big Mac, you are saying it's okay for the owner of McDonald's to determine national policy.  If the placement of power is determined almost solely by the placement of money, we really need to seriously consider how and where we spend our earnings.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is possible that a consumer shift toward more responsible companies (I don't know what this would actually entail) could help prevent future fiscal crises. I guess the main problem with this is that if a company (like McDonald's) offers things cheaper than anyone else, than people are more likely to spend their money there, whether or not the company has integrity, especially if they are poor.  An interesting problem, though it could probably be better articulated.  Anyone have arguments or comments? Economists?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FYI: You can check out the pdf version of the article below &lt;a href="http://www4.bioch.ox.ac.uk/oubs/phenotype.php"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  It just came out last week.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-3818436324275519157?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/3818436324275519157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/02/snowed-in-thought-of-day.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/3818436324275519157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/3818436324275519157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/02/snowed-in-thought-of-day.html' title='Snowed-in Thought of the Day'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-5494673702768184758</id><published>2010-01-09T10:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T13:30:05.011-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Something wicked this way comes.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I said I'd do it so here it is: the article I just finalized for the Oxford University Biochemical Society's termly magazine &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Phenotype&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;. The editors were oddly professional, I was rather impressed. You should eventually be able to see this article along with its friends &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www4.bioch.ox.ac.uk/oubs/phenotype.php"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;in the Hilary 2010 issue. 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&lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !vml]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:61.5pt;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;ive years ago, when graduate student Alice Pawley started her blog&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;( &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/"&gt;http://scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/ &lt;/a&gt;) about being a woman in science, finding a community to share her experiences with was not easy.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It took weeks, she wrote, to find even one blogger in a similar situation.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Now she is an assistant professor and last December she posted that she would soon stop blogging, bidding farewell to a now large blogging community that continues to expand. While the number of people who have taken their personal and professional lives to the internet is staggering, what is more relevant is the growing number of tools we have to organise this information for ourselves, maximising the information we can gather from the internet while minimising the time we spend on it. &lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Although it may be hard for some to admit, it seems that in the last few years the internet has become increasingly useful. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S0jJPLC0FRI/AAAAAAAAAIc/gtpNI9CbNHo/s1600-h/PhenotypeWebScience.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S0jJPLC0FRI/AAAAAAAAAIc/gtpNI9CbNHo/s320/PhenotypeWebScience.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424807013667575058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-indent: 0.5in;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;As young scholars of biochemistry, we are in a privileged position to take advantage of these tools, and to incorporate them into our routine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Our peer-to-peer networks are becoming increasingly web-based, top tier scientists share their interests openly via easily accessible sites and high impact journals are beginning to grasp the power of new technologies. This means that having even a loose handle on these newer methods of communication can make all the difference. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-indent: 0.5in;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The fact is we are now much more likely to spend our time browsing the internet than we are a library.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Unlike a library, however, we are each charged with the task of designing our own personalised Dewey Decimal system to organise our resources.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Some will keep it simple and stick to getting e-mails or RSS feeds of a PubMed search, an almost effortless way to be kept up-to-date on topics of interest.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Others might go a little further and listen to &lt;i style=""&gt;Science&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i style=""&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt;’s weekly podcasts.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Those who are already acquainted with Twitter may feel most comfortable following a few of their favorite scientists, @Naturenews or @AdamRutherford, a &lt;i style=""&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt; editor who gave a talk in November 2009 to the Oxford Biological Society.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Those with a penchant for blogging, and perhaps a little too much time on their hands, may start delving into the enormous scientific blogosphere from which websites such as &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;http://scienceblogs.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.postgenomic.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;http://www.postgenomic.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; try to provide highlights. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Others might try to collect all this information to view at a glance on their Google Reader and iGoogle homepage.&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;However you go about it, it now seems like almost everyone is finding a preferred way to organise their internet resources.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-indent: 47.6pt;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Of the many &lt;/span&gt;questions we could ask of these new tools and their application to our lives, one stands above the rest: is all this really going to increase our productivity and make us better scientists? A particularly compelling story I found was of the blog of Fields Medal recipient Professor Timothy Gower of Cambridge University. Through his blog, a collaborative community was formed that within six weeks came up with a new proof to a long-standing mathematical problem. Having been fruitful in their experiment to bring expertise together through the internet, they are now trying their luck with a new format: a Wiki.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;While it is still unclear if biomedical science can benefit in the same ways as the mathematical community, there is certainly scientific potential in this new connectivity, however you choose to harness it. •&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-indent: 47.6pt;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-5494673702768184758?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/5494673702768184758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/01/something-wicked-this-way-comes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/5494673702768184758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/5494673702768184758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/01/something-wicked-this-way-comes.html' title='Something wicked this way comes.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S0jJPLC0FRI/AAAAAAAAAIc/gtpNI9CbNHo/s72-c/PhenotypeWebScience.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-4420943812040795863</id><published>2010-01-05T21:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-05T22:03:36.254-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to the future.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S0Qhhte6ibI/AAAAAAAAAIM/-J67koUkt64/s1600-h/Celtic+Manor+TwentyTen_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 219px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S0Qhhte6ibI/AAAAAAAAAIM/-J67koUkt64/s320/Celtic+Manor+TwentyTen_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423496714289580466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I was just invited by Heather to write a "Young Lady's Guide to Science in 2010" for the &lt;a href="http://youngladiesofquality.wordpress.com/"&gt;newish blog&lt;/a&gt; she is doing with Erin and Courtney.  This prompted me to catch myself up on what they've been writing lately.  In the process I came across a video mash-up of the major pop songs of the year in Erin's post 'Wrap It Up, 2009', and realized how much more I can link experiences to pop music this year than usual.  And it is TOTALLY a good thing.  I highly suggest you watch the video (DJ Earworm - United State of Pop ...) , cause it made me super happy about 2009, however morally depraved it might have been.  Between ill-advised encounters with boys, a rave, beer pong, spontaneous dance parties, the Gold Room, Hawaii, Oxford, NaNoWriMo, the Pac-10 tournament, making out with a basketball player at the tournament in Minneapolis (oops), Graduation, Obama becoming president, driving to 'work' in Beverly Hills over the summer, the fact that the band is actually going to be on Glee, and realizing that I can use twitter for science, everything seems very incredibly surreal and amazingly possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know all of these things are super shallow, and not really important.  But they still make me happy.  Another thing that makes me happy: &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6973994.ece"&gt;dolphins are people, too?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-4420943812040795863?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/4420943812040795863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/01/welcome-to-future.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/4420943812040795863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/4420943812040795863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2010/01/welcome-to-future.html' title='Welcome to the future.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/S0Qhhte6ibI/AAAAAAAAAIM/-J67koUkt64/s72-c/Celtic+Manor+TwentyTen_logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-1101091013818687697</id><published>2009-11-20T20:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-09T10:45:06.779-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Taste of England</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Haven't posted in a while.  I thought I was going to be all good about it, and post things from England, like how lena, courtney, and kate did on their travel blogs during semesters abroad.  Not so much.  Here's one of my favorite pictures from England, just so I can pretend I did this while I was there:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:left;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/Swdx8Va8D0I/AAAAAAAAAH0/HydQ_bnrp5g/s320/IMG_1321.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406415159037792066" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Instead, as of October 1st, I started keeping a diary of sorts.  Mainly, I bought a book at Blackwell's that has a page reserved for each and every day. I think its designed to keep track of homework or something.  Lame. Whatever it's supposed to do, it's been very good at getting me to write or draw something every day.  Twice I have made other people write in it, so I don't have to.  It's nice.  Maybe I'll have my grandma write in it over Thanksgiving.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, I have agreed to write an article about Web 2.0 and its influence on biomedical science for the Oxford Biochemical Society's termly journal.  It is incredibly interesting to learn enough about this topic to write a semi-coherent article.  The ideas of open source computing, twitter, blogging, podcasts, etc. are having real effects on scientific communication.  I just have to figure a thesis around which I can organize these thoughts and facts.  I will probably post it, or a semblence thereof, on here when I'm done.  It's due November 27th, so that's not too long from now.   Another picture just for the hell of it:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:right;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/Swd0hy0LyfI/AAAAAAAAAH8/K0blDwyY2Gs/s320/IMG_1350.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406418001606724082" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Regarding the whole computers are becoming more and more important thing, I am hoping to become much better at the internet in the near future.  For one, I'm planning on getting a brand new shiny macboook pro over Thanksgiving.  I currently am unable to do many things like watch videos and run iTunes smoothly.   Really, I think these are both fixable problems, but it's about time for me to get a new computer anyway.  Secondly, I now own sonyahanson.com and I need to figure out something to do with it.  Lastly, my mom gave me this sweet digital SLR as a graduation present, and I might start a flickr page on which to post my good pictures, since I kind of dump everything on facebook regardless of how I feel about its quality.  We'll see if I follow through on any of these things, but I certainly enjoy day dreaming about them.   Especially the new computer thing, and I don't think I can really survive if I procrastinate on that for much longer. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-1101091013818687697?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/1101091013818687697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/11/taste-of-england.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1101091013818687697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1101091013818687697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/11/taste-of-england.html' title='A Taste of England'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/Swdx8Va8D0I/AAAAAAAAAH0/HydQ_bnrp5g/s72-c/IMG_1321.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-6019700916786480516</id><published>2009-07-07T07:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T08:24:56.495-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A few twitters</title><content type='html'>You ever feel parts of your life are like a soggy puzzle?  Every piece you try kinda fits... but not really. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I may, perhaps, be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.  But then... if I am, maybe we all are in our own way. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking about this on my ride home: &lt;a href="http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/2008/06/is-brevity-dumb.html"&gt;Was Nietzsche the first blogger?&lt;/a&gt;  So I decided to find an article to post that could articulate my thoughts better than I have the energy to.  I was just thinking about how some of Nietzsche's books, really read like a twitter page. APHORISMS = I Heart Nietzsche.  Twitter is such a fascinating thing, I wonder if they had any idea when they started it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also, do you think men would feel threatened by a woman who drives this car?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SlNoPl74xgI/AAAAAAAAAHo/QpZvVZ6E1-o/s1600-h/x_1964_pontiac_gto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SlNoPl74xgI/AAAAAAAAAHo/QpZvVZ6E1-o/s320/x_1964_pontiac_gto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355738998964274690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(brrp)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-6019700916786480516?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/6019700916786480516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/07/few-twitters.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/6019700916786480516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/6019700916786480516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/07/few-twitters.html' title='A few twitters'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SlNoPl74xgI/AAAAAAAAAHo/QpZvVZ6E1-o/s72-c/x_1964_pontiac_gto.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-311665312801956559</id><published>2009-03-10T15:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T15:46:22.609-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I don't</title><content type='html'>ever want to feel stressed out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't ever want to feel like I have to do something that I don't want to do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-311665312801956559?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/311665312801956559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-dont.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/311665312801956559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/311665312801956559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-dont.html' title='I don&apos;t'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-3491578361503570911</id><published>2009-01-29T01:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T02:03:55.920-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I feel like this means something.</title><content type='html'>My two favorite Beatles songs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O9PLTIQXKUs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O9PLTIQXKUs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this has nothing to do with my current situation right now, or anything.&lt;br /&gt;They've been my favorites since I was like 14.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tSn3w_ZlJSo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tSn3w_ZlJSo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't get me wrong, it's not like I don't like Hey Jude or When I'm Sixty-Four or any of their 400 million other amazing songs, it's just that these have always stood out to me.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I've never been a fan of I Want to Hold Your Hand.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-3491578361503570911?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/3491578361503570911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-feel-like-this-means-something.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/3491578361503570911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/3491578361503570911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-feel-like-this-means-something.html' title='I feel like this means something.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-4605557267805223328</id><published>2009-01-21T23:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T23:39:09.015-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Way better than the moon landing.</title><content type='html'>hahahaha.  The Daily Show half hour summary of yesterday is hilarious.  This British dude is having people compare Obama's inauguration to the moon landing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mom called today and said, "Hi Sonya, this is mom, I was just wondering if you celebrated for that... you know... how do you say? Obama becoming president thing. I still can't believe it really happened.  Anyway, call me later."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On that same topic:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SXgfMCvWE1I/AAAAAAAAAHI/q8om5OC1c5M/s1600-h/Obama-limo-609.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 469px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SXgfMCvWE1I/AAAAAAAAAHI/q8om5OC1c5M/s400/Obama-limo-609.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294015653728359250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama's limo would be a Cadillac.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the theme of this post is that today was a super good day, despite the fact that I turned in a physics homework that I know I didn't do correctly, mainly because I didn't start it til this morning.  Just getting the shitty out of the way, on the first graded item of the semester.  That's how that works right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of the reason I didn't really care about my physics hw was that I was finalizing my travel plans for das two grad school interviews Feb 10-12 and Feb 12-14.  I'm so stoked that that's done, now I just have to go interview clothes shopping, and do a shit ton of research on the interests of the people who are going to be interviewing me and... on what I should pretend my own interests are.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SXgglQ6Z5YI/AAAAAAAAAHY/FcPKp4LFdls/s1600-h/n45014389346_7301.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SXgglQ6Z5YI/AAAAAAAAAHY/FcPKp4LFdls/s400/n45014389346_7301.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294017186541200770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today being good was not based solely on money, BUT I did make $110, BITCHES!  In addition, I  found the $100 bill in my drawer that I had forgotten I was saving for Vegas this weekend, BITCHES!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPS and friends went out to dinner for Bickers' Birthday at El Cholo with bunches of his current and former students.  It was great.  I think he had like three margaritas, and was working the table like mad. There were some old, old students there (like from 98, FUCK that's old).  They told us stories about how they used to do the wave during class, and how apparently people used to go drinking at La Barca with Bickers. We're so bringing that back!  w00t!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-4605557267805223328?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/4605557267805223328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/way-better-than-moon-landing.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/4605557267805223328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/4605557267805223328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/way-better-than-moon-landing.html' title='Way better than the moon landing.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SXgfMCvWE1I/AAAAAAAAAHI/q8om5OC1c5M/s72-c/Obama-limo-609.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-7740311453509141058</id><published>2009-01-20T21:33:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T23:41:20.284-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bringing Back "Kill Whitey"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SXgi9EEUR5I/AAAAAAAAAHg/_fAttnZccCs/s1600-h/UDAlumnusJoeBiden2a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 345px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SXgi9EEUR5I/AAAAAAAAAHg/_fAttnZccCs/s400/UDAlumnusJoeBiden2a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294019794433230738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hey Guys!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a little over 12 hours now that Obama's been president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so far...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AWESOME!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently watching MSNBC wondering where Rachel Maddow went.  Is this the B Team?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also looking at pictures of young Biden:&lt;br /&gt;Look at those cheek bones!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway.  Obama is giving his last pre-ball speech.  That's right.  Go HOME!!  Be the first black man to fuck your wife in the Lincoln Bedroom    Just do it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-7740311453509141058?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/7740311453509141058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/bringing-back-kill-whitey.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/7740311453509141058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/7740311453509141058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/bringing-back-kill-whitey.html' title='Bringing Back &quot;Kill Whitey&quot;'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SXgi9EEUR5I/AAAAAAAAAHg/_fAttnZccCs/s72-c/UDAlumnusJoeBiden2a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-5467457754465053164</id><published>2009-01-19T00:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T00:26:22.266-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This isn't the time for U-G-L-Y, You Ain't Got No Alibi.</title><content type='html'>So this kinda goes along with my idea of having my facebook status be:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sonya is a hot blonde, LA, 21, just wants to have fun.  I stay up late.  XOXO"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this one is more like a line from a movie from the perspective of say, you know, that girl from Clueless, maybe:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Just cause you're ugly doesn't mean you wanna be pretty.&lt;br /&gt;Just cause you're fat doesn't mean you wanna be skinny.&lt;br /&gt;Just cause you're dumb doesn't mean you wanna be smart.&lt;br /&gt;But I know for a fact that everyone at this school wants to be me."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other things to think about:&lt;br /&gt;Just cause you're nice doesn't mean you want to be mean.&lt;br /&gt;Just cause you're poor doesn't mean you want to be rich.&lt;br /&gt;Just cause you're locked up doesn't mean you want to be free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can do the race and gender thing with it, too.  It's sort of fun to think about things when you phrase 'em this way. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, I'm not high.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-5467457754465053164?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/5467457754465053164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-isnt-time-for-u-g-l-y-you-aint-got.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/5467457754465053164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/5467457754465053164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-isnt-time-for-u-g-l-y-you-aint-got.html' title='This isn&apos;t the time for U-G-L-Y, You Ain&apos;t Got No Alibi.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-8858195039259573455</id><published>2009-01-12T19:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-12T19:52:57.283-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Try not to engage in wishful thinking.</title><content type='html'>-Prof. Hogen Esch, Chem 322b (2nd semester Organic Chemistry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it seems I would actually love to go to the drag art show I mentioned earlier.  It opens on January 15.  I'm not really available this weekend or next, but maybe the weekend after that or sometime on a weekday we could arrange a field trip.  Courtney and Heather have expressed interest. I would also like to bring as many sophomores and freshmen as possible.  Corrupting the youth is in.  The juniors are a lost cause.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://worldofwonder.net/?tag=rupauls-drag-race"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 491px; height: 331px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWwMAxF00lI/AAAAAAAAAG4/W37LUNsWwfs/s400/2ed76a6b_620.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290616869570794066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-8858195039259573455?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/8858195039259573455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/try-not-to-engage-in-wishful-thinking.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/8858195039259573455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/8858195039259573455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/try-not-to-engage-in-wishful-thinking.html' title='Try not to engage in wishful thinking.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWwMAxF00lI/AAAAAAAAAG4/W37LUNsWwfs/s72-c/2ed76a6b_620.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-1233182705364774435</id><published>2009-01-11T22:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-11T23:39:46.721-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.</title><content type='html'>- C3PO in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm still really impressed with this movie. I think a lot of it has to do with John Williams' music.  It may be totally corny, but it works so well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So... my facebook status right now is about how I am watching &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/span&gt;, and like within seconds after I posted it, an acquaintance of mine (below)from high school (I seriously don't think I ever had a conversation with him) responded with a very positive "Fuck yes!".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWrrbUO5YHI/AAAAAAAAAGg/hAR-tRDOhrs/s1600-h/n50401477_31334249_9449.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 198px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWrrbUO5YHI/AAAAAAAAAGg/hAR-tRDOhrs/s320/n50401477_31334249_9449.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290299566820253810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When I was home over break and drinking beers with my band director and the rest of my marching band class, we started talking about this guy, and apparently he is in a band now with a few current high school students. Dubie (high school band director) told us the whole high school like worships him now cause he's some badass drummer.  We had no idea! He just played keyboard in the pit in marching band!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's also highly possible that he's not really that good, and high schoolers are just dumb, but it makes me think about my hopes and dreams for the following year and upcoming future. I hope to continue playing French horn, probably mellophone, perhaps dabbling in trumpet (I know they suck, but I have my reasons), to the point where I'd love to be in some makeshift funk band or something. I don't care how good it really is, it just seems like it'd be fuckin' awesome.     Like a random stress reliever and something to care about other than work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a reference point, this is pretty much how I envision my future:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWrtH9ZR5uI/AAAAAAAAAGo/U1vdQsWvS7A/s1600-h/BluesBrothers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 254px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWrtH9ZR5uI/AAAAAAAAAGo/U1vdQsWvS7A/s320/BluesBrothers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290301433295529698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-1233182705364774435?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/1233182705364774435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/its-against-my-programming-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1233182705364774435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/1233182705364774435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/its-against-my-programming-to.html' title='It&apos;s against my programming to impersonate a deity.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWrrbUO5YHI/AAAAAAAAAGg/hAR-tRDOhrs/s72-c/n50401477_31334249_9449.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-653135858188228199</id><published>2009-01-07T10:26:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-07T10:59:31.981-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Internet is a Wonderful Place Full of Rainbows and Puppies</title><content type='html'>So, although officially it may seem like my brother is unemployed, he introduces himself as an 'internet entrepreneur'.  He even has business cards!  Yesterday at the bank when asked his title he said 'President' and after I, he, and the banker had a good laugh, he showed me his card for this company called &lt;a href="http://www.reduciblesystems.com/"&gt;Reducible Systems Inc.&lt;/a&gt;  Apparently it's 'one of the first quantum computing companies'.  I like to think he's full of shit, but I have no idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a similar entrepreneurial note, today he's borrowing my car to go to lunch with someone interested in this domain name that he owns: &lt;a href="http://www.mathissexy.com/"&gt; http://www.mathissexy.com&lt;/a&gt;   If you click on it, it will take you straight to my brother's homepage, which honestly is not that interesting, other than the fact that has a picture of him on it that prompted Courtney to comment on how we look a lot alike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWT2jNvCCGI/AAAAAAAAAFw/_qIfGd_bgyk/s1600-h/8R8933rZscypriq80tb75zI2_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 237px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWT2jNvCCGI/AAAAAAAAAFw/_qIfGd_bgyk/s320/8R8933rZscypriq80tb75zI2_500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288622947282585698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did a search for 'math is sexy' on google, and came up with some interesting things, such as the blog at &lt;a href="http://calculust.com/"&gt;http://calculust.com/&lt;/a&gt; which provided me with such interesting things as the holiday classic above entitled &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Present Parallel Universe&lt;/span&gt;, and the inspirational video below, which is corny, but whatever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;align="center" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-031752105549213516 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/0yetHqWODp0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/align&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0yetHqWODp0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0yetHqWODp0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also this quote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally, a great picture from the google image search for 'math is sexy':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWT4vGy2OeI/AAAAAAAAAF4/AbnLb-9E_is/s1600-h/future-dad-math-tshirt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 234px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWT4vGy2OeI/AAAAAAAAAF4/AbnLb-9E_is/s320/future-dad-math-tshirt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288625350601226722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So, my brother just got off the phone with said partner in his mathissexy.com venture, and apparently the lunch date is off: they talked about everything they needed to talk about over the phone.   All I have to say about that is that I kept on hearing my brother say '&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Algebra is for Lovers&lt;/span&gt;'.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-653135858188228199?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/653135858188228199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/internet-is-wonderful-place-full-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/653135858188228199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/653135858188228199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/internet-is-wonderful-place-full-of.html' title='The Internet is a Wonderful Place Full of Rainbows and Puppies'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWT2jNvCCGI/AAAAAAAAAFw/_qIfGd_bgyk/s72-c/8R8933rZscypriq80tb75zI2_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-517959740953347635</id><published>2009-01-07T00:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-07T00:43:21.670-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Scientology: Funny and then not so funny.</title><content type='html'>So after the World of Wonder my brother and I walked to the Psychiatry Museum on Sunset:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRny2rceeI/AAAAAAAAAFI/n1wCi9pBuLk/s1600-h/industry_of_death.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 60px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRny2rceeI/AAAAAAAAAFI/n1wCi9pBuLk/s320/industry_of_death.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288465985808660962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As suggested by Pepper Ann, sometime during bowl week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was sweet.  I mean, granted, hilarious, and ridiculous, and you wonder how much money they put into it.  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPUHUpfDVgY"&gt;Just check&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPUHUpfDVgY"&gt; out how well done it is.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure there is some truth to it.  The abuse of mental patients back in the day a la One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  And the abuse of the words ADD and depression nowadays to sedate the human population into robot functionality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But... Scientology, I'm sorry, you've gone too far with things like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRp9_pGkjI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/uRDAQwxGldc/s1600-h/elli_ad_med.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 179px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRp9_pGkjI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/uRDAQwxGldc/s320/elli_ad_med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288468376216572466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRqYPHba5I/AAAAAAAAAFY/yrfs8m52P9M/s1600-h/AidsScam.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRqYPHba5I/AAAAAAAAAFY/yrfs8m52P9M/s320/AidsScam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288468827046898578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-517959740953347635?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/517959740953347635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/scientology-funny-and-then-not-so-funny.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/517959740953347635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/517959740953347635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/scientology-funny-and-then-not-so-funny.html' title='Scientology: Funny and then not so funny.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRny2rceeI/AAAAAAAAAFI/n1wCi9pBuLk/s72-c/industry_of_death.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-3339989670676354043</id><published>2009-01-06T23:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-07T00:00:35.308-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Little Foot is da bomb shizzle. So is Ducky.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRgjDSh_bI/AAAAAAAAAFA/wJnF3p3nqKw/s1600-h/n1242870273_30353087_7415.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 153px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRgjDSh_bI/AAAAAAAAAFA/wJnF3p3nqKw/s320/n1242870273_30353087_7415.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288458017734524338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today I hung out with my brother (left).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is, after catching a little bit of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Land Before Time&lt;/span&gt; on TV while eating leftover pizza for breakfast.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRdGWVOx8I/AAAAAAAAAEw/r-ATCS10Lx4/s1600-h/BatmanRobiden.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 198px; height: 301px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRdGWVOx8I/AAAAAAAAAEw/r-ATCS10Lx4/s320/BatmanRobiden.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288454226095032258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because there is nothing to do in Riverside, we ended up driving back to about 15 minutes away from my apartment to go to an art gallery called the World of Wonder in Hollywood.  We almost bought this print (right), but then we realized neither of us had a good place to put it.  At least not a good enough place to spend $50 each.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was also one of those art galleries with lots of pictures of genitals, gay sex, girls fingering themselves, and transvestites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWReGSFNgyI/AAAAAAAAAE4/hakCC94NeWI/s1600-h/RuPaul.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 149px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWReGSFNgyI/AAAAAAAAAE4/hakCC94NeWI/s320/RuPaul.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288455324465726242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHICH reminded me that we haven't taken the freshmen to Hollywood nearly enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a similar note, these are the last few days of this particular show, and on January 15, the World of Wonder is hosting a &lt;a href="http://worldofwonder.net/?tag=rupauls-drag-race"&gt;NEW exhibit featuring DRAG QUEENS&lt;/a&gt;.   Anyone else interested?  The collage of RuPaul on the left is a sneak preview of what you would be missing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-3339989670676354043?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/3339989670676354043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-foot-is-da-bomb-shizzle-so-is.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/3339989670676354043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/3339989670676354043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-foot-is-da-bomb-shizzle-so-is.html' title='Little Foot is da bomb shizzle. So is Ducky.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWRgjDSh_bI/AAAAAAAAAFA/wJnF3p3nqKw/s72-c/n1242870273_30353087_7415.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-4648110511398214909</id><published>2009-01-05T16:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-05T16:50:15.372-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Killing Time with my Rhymes.</title><content type='html'>I'm going to my mom's tonight to see my brother in the first time in like a year. My christmas present to him was a ticket to the Rose Bowl, so he's in town right now (well, he's in Riverside, with my mom).  He's also unemployed, so has nothing better to do than hang around.  I'm ready to leave for the side of R now, but I can't because I would get stuck in traffic:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWKnmuVA-WI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/YvvTHD7uNqk/s1600-h/traffic-accidents-picture1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 163px; height: 159px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWKnmuVA-WI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/YvvTHD7uNqk/s320/traffic-accidents-picture1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287973196199426402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So I'm killing time for the next few hours, by doing a bunch of &lt;a href="http://x5e.xanga.com/286832e645010163249773/z54512700.jpg"&gt;random shit&lt;/a&gt; while listening to this &lt;a href="http://www.scadradio.org/"&gt;radio station&lt;/a&gt; that I found a while ago, and I don't remember why or how.  It's SCAD Radio, from the savannah college of art and design in savannah, georgia.  It has single-handedly increased my respect for that area of the country.   It also reminds me of NPR, but for cool people, which is like the story of my life right now:&lt;br /&gt;JADED about the liberal college life of my dad (etc), which is basically NPR in life form.&lt;br /&gt;BUT at the same time realizing that there are some good things about it, and&lt;br /&gt;TRYING to figure out how to incorporate them appropriately into a life of awesomeness:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.40cozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/awesomeness.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 145px;" src="http://www.40cozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/awesomeness.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;AKA: music, drugs, alcohol, violence, and nudity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-4648110511398214909?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/4648110511398214909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/killing-time-with-my-rhymes.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/4648110511398214909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/4648110511398214909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2009/01/killing-time-with-my-rhymes.html' title='Killing Time with my Rhymes.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SWKnmuVA-WI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/YvvTHD7uNqk/s72-c/traffic-accidents-picture1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-6498017481167671963</id><published>2008-12-27T11:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-27T11:49:53.478-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah! Get some!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVaGin7EycI/AAAAAAAAAEA/VwgX0SC4Goc/s1600-h/kim_jong_il_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 338px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVaGin7EycI/AAAAAAAAAEA/VwgX0SC4Goc/s400/kim_jong_il_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284559142156290498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-6498017481167671963?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/6498017481167671963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2008/12/la-aretha-franklin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/6498017481167671963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/6498017481167671963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2008/12/la-aretha-franklin.html' title='Yeah! Get some!'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVaGin7EycI/AAAAAAAAAEA/VwgX0SC4Goc/s72-c/kim_jong_il_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-2219814718790218962</id><published>2008-12-25T20:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-25T21:27:06.642-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Imagine if you just didn't have to decide.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVRiftac_-I/AAAAAAAAADQ/Iv_8OMpy1m0/s1600-h/decision.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 261px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVRiftac_-I/AAAAAAAAADQ/Iv_8OMpy1m0/s400/decision.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283956559718449122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The fewer decisions I have the more free I feel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVRingssj6I/AAAAAAAAADY/cZKH9fj2A0k/s1600-h/dishonor.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 140px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVRingssj6I/AAAAAAAAADY/cZKH9fj2A0k/s400/dishonor.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283956693744258978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my screenwriting profs said something about this. Like if you follow the rules of writing, you actually feel more free to write what you want.  Seems &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;counter intuitive&lt;/span&gt;, but I think I just got  it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-2219814718790218962?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/2219814718790218962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2008/12/decisions-decisions.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/2219814718790218962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/2219814718790218962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2008/12/decisions-decisions.html' title='Imagine if you just didn&apos;t have to decide.'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVRiftac_-I/AAAAAAAAADQ/Iv_8OMpy1m0/s72-c/decision.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267977946968503835.post-557909224657677189</id><published>2008-12-25T13:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-25T13:56:20.497-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Special Gift</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/hangover/cures-interactive"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 412px; height: 319px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVP7aWawnvI/AAAAAAAAACQ/VNdO6C9_9KU/s400/4843873aeacbbdf864d44323ac955887.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283843217948712690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helpful tips from National Geographic (click on it and get transported!). My mom has been getting me a subscription to the magazine for Christmas for years, and I don't have the heart to tell her I never really read it.  I do, however, like the pictures.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/267977946968503835-557909224657677189?l=sogniamo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/feeds/557909224657677189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2008/12/hangover-helpers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/557909224657677189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/267977946968503835/posts/default/557909224657677189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sogniamo.blogspot.com/2008/12/hangover-helpers.html' title='A Special Gift'/><author><name>sonya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06199866293388415071</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rear7f-mhV0/SVP7aWawnvI/AAAAAAAAACQ/VNdO6C9_9KU/s72-c/4843873aeacbbdf864d44323ac955887.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
