January 2011
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Lauren: The Peace Corps is trying to recruit me, bro.
Kim: Go for it. See if they'll send you to Kenya. Get in on some refugee action and get a wicked tan- oh, wait.
Lauren: Is the Peace Corps not a singles matchmaking organization?
Kim: That's the Piece Corps.
Lauren: I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.
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Lauren: The Peace Corps is trying to recruit me, bro.
Kim: Go for it. See if they'll send you to Kenya. Get in on some refugee action and get a wicked tan- oh, wait.
Lauren: Is the Peace Corps not a singles matchmaking organization?
Kim: That's the Piece Corps.
Lauren: I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.
December 2010
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day 25- tell us about the last book you read (for...
Kim: I sort of simultaneously was reading "Say You're One of Them" by Uwem Akpan and "The Half-Mammals of Dixie" by George Singleton over the summer (I'm a sloooooooooow reader). Both are collections of short stories. One book centers around children trapped under the terrible circumstances of slavery, prostitution, and ethnic violence in diverse parts of Africa. The other one sarcastically chronicles a childhood spent in a barely-integrated, fictional town called "Ninety-Six" in Pickens Co., South Carolina. I'll let you guess which is which. I'd only recommend them if you're bored, really. I wasn't blown away by either. (Yes, I'm saying that about a book that included a child prostitute: B-, could have been better.)
Currently in the midst of "The Extended Phenotype" by my crush (see #19) Richard Dawkins.
Lauren: Grad school doesn’t have text books, grad school has a shit ton of scientific articles. I recently read one called “Accumulation of paralytic shellfish toxins in digestive gland of Octopus vulgaris during bloom events including the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum”. Does that count?
For leisure, I plan to read Kim’s copy of "The Selfish Gene". It will be leisure reading because I’ll be wearing sweatpants. I'm also jazzed to read Markus Zusak's "I Am The Messenger" over winter break and I hope it lives up to "The Book Thief" which is my favorite novel of all time. Of all time!
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“My new term for people who fail at life is vapid shell people. They’re...”
– Steve
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day 24- tell us about the last movie you saw in...
Kim: Inception, twice. I LOVE movies that make you concentrate, movies that reveal their details a little more every time you watch them. Christopher Nolan has always been amazing, starting with Following which is one of those wonderful movies that unravels all it’s secrets in the last five minutes!
No one asked but the last movie I saw at home was Hombre which, if you haven’t seen...
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day 23- your opinions on Lady Gaga
Kim: There is only one appropriate opinion to have: she compensates for her total lack of creative musical talent with her outrageous image. She can’t pull off sexy (and apparently doesn’t realize you don’t have to if your music has any kind of substance), so she resorts to, I guess, lampooning sexiness. I don’t understand the cult of personality that has developed around...
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Watcha great TMZ spoof
“I’m embarassed to tell my friends what I do for a living.”
via The High Definite
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day 22- something about sports or hobbies or...
Kim: Lifting weights, CrossFit stuff, climbing mountains, portraiture…
Lauren: I tried to play soccer and basketball as a middle school super student, but my dad made me wear goggles to protect my eyes, so I quit pretty early in the season. I was judged enough without props to add to my embarrassment.
We’ll call my current “hobby” of scientific diving a sport. Basically, you strap obscene...
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day 24- tell us about the last movie you saw in...
Kim: Inception, twice. I LOVE movies that make you concentrate, movies that reveal their details a little more every time you watch them. Christopher Nolan has always been amazing, starting with Following which is one of those wonderful movies that unravels all it’s secrets in the last five minutes!
No one asked but the last movie I saw at home was Hombre which, if you haven’t seen...
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day 23- your opinions on Lady Gaga
Kim: There is only one appropriate opinion to have: she compensates for her total lack of creative musical talent with her outrageous image. She can’t pull off sexy (and apparently doesn’t realize you don’t have to if your music has any kind of substance), so she resorts to, I guess, lampooning sexiness. I don’t understand the cult of personality that has developed around...
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day 22- something about sports or hobbies or...
Kim: Lifting weights, CrossFit stuff, climbing mountains, portraiture…
Lauren: I tried to play soccer and basketball as a middle school super student, but my dad made me wear goggles to protect my eyes, so I quit pretty early in the season. I was judged enough without props to add to my embarrassment.
We’ll call my current “hobby” of scientific diving a sport. Basically, you strap obsence...
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day 21- your favorite subject to study
Kim: Maybe the mechanics of language or anything in the spectrum of organic chemistry to biochemistry to higher-level biology. Historical novels are great, too, but then, I guess this wasn't a question about my favorite books. I spent several hours last week (re)reading up on binary search algorithms, so I'm all over the place, but I'm firmly in the camp of being science-minded. I cannot imagine having been an art or a lit major. Nothing is more mind-numbing to me than analyzing a century-and-a-half old Jane Austen soap opera or cooing over Basquiat just because he was the first person to think of ripping a urinal off a restroom wall and putting it in a museum. I mean, with all due respect, who gives a shit?
Lauren: I’m in grad school. None of my subjects are “fun” to study. I’m just finished a class called Experimental Design, y’all. It’s about using statistics to analyze and design scientific experiments. “Fun” will never factor into that, not as long as I have to write papers about the statistical significance of non-lethal predation risk and temperature on snail respiration rates. But I’m still a nerd at heart, and I truly enjoy learning about crazy animals in the oceans (cephalopods, I’m looking at you!) and I geek out about mammalian toxicology and all the way stupid humans are destroying the fur covered bodies of snuggly marine mammals.
(I want to compare our answers to that of the tween set for which this challenge is targeted. Kim and I are smarter than you, tweens!)
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Stephanie: It's okay, I'm just eating a whole bag of white chocolate flipz, my feelings are being hidden by 7.5oz of pure carbs.
Lauren: I'm single handedly destroying the candy population at my dad's house. Pure sugar and forever alone, y'all!
Stephanie: Ahhhh yes, the other great part of my life, I am terminally single
Lauren: Last weekend, my grandparents requested I try to get married before their imminent death. (They're only in their 70s, super healthy and overdramatic.)
Stephanie: I basically told my family I was asexual, they were really happy to hear that, oh and that I'm an alcoholic... but apparently they all knew that already
Lauren: "Why don't you ever bring anyone home for us to meet?" Oh, I don't know granny- maybe because I don't even like the guys I date, why would you?
Stephanie: I avoided a lot of the inquisition this year by accidently falling asleep after dinner... it worked!
Lauren: Your narcolepsy is one of your most attractive qualities.