Honest Scrap

I have been tagged with another one of these "awards" that circulate around the blogosphere!

Thanks, Ivy :)

The rules of the Honest Scrap Award are:  divulge 10 honest things about yourself. Then pass the award on to 7 bloggers who you believe will be 100% truthful!

Well, I like talking about myself so here goes

1. The best thing only good thing about being in a long distance relationship is having the opportunity to slack off in the leg-shaving and hair-washing departments (hey, it saves H2O and products!!)

(Ivy--I ONLY shower after working out too! Otherwise I don't feel dirty and it seems like a major waste of effort. 

Everyone else--don't worry, I work out almost every day)

2. I am a BOTTOMLESS PIT when it comes to baked goods. Dangerously so. The synapse or whatever that sends the signal of "I'm full" from your tummy to brain ceases to function when I am eating cookies, scones, cake, etc etc. When it comes to pancakes I can out-eat my ragingmetabolismed boyfriend. Which disturbs him. Because of this dieting trigger/addiction, I seldom bake cookies because I will stand over the stove and not be able to stop eating the dough. nomnomnom cooooooookies

3. I am so easygoing that I can't think of any specific person I actually dislike, but when someone proclaims that they do not believe in global warming (usually via college newspaper op-eds) I want to STRANGLE THEM. It pisses me off so much.  Dude, don't be stupid.

4. I express all strong emotions by crying (frustration, anger, trying to explain a cause that I am passionate about, shock of sudden happiness, love)

5. I also spontaneously start crying when a loud bang goes off by my head, and am terrified of popping balloons and champagne corks. (it's a lonnnng story.) 

6. I would call myself an environmentalist, but I feel like I can't because I am totally sucked in by the media and consumeristic culture, and I rely on globalization to bring me my delicious bananas that are probably destroying some native subsistence village and its soil.

7.  Like baked goods, I have NO CONTROL over myself whenever I step into Bath and Body Works (see #6...)  IT ALL SMELLS SO GOOD AND IS PRETTY

8.  I love my family best from a distance, and have come to appreciate and love them so much more since striking out on my own.

9. When my sister and I are together for too long we get really weird, (like, weirder than you can even imagine), and usually end up making up silly songs in baby voices. 

10. ummm I can't think of anything else.  Ask me something!!

TAG,  YOU'RE IT:

back at ya Alex from Happy Go Lucky

Abbie from AbbieBabble

Rhianne from For the easily distracted

Vanessa from Caramel Colored Photographs

Caitlin from The Twenty-Fifth Year

Laura Marie from A diary of little things and curiosities

and real life friend and baby-blogger Ella

whew!

Today was a RIOT of productivity!

Aaand now it's getting late eek so I am going to blow through this post AFAP (as fast as poss.)

SO I can continue my new wake up routine!

I have discovered that for me, 6:30 is the perfect time to wake up.

(I know it's not excruciatingly early compared to some people but I haven't really woken up that early since summer for work so there.)

After the first five minutes of disbelief and confused tiredness I am so motivated to start my day, since I don't want to waste the time that I woke up extra early for.

This morning I went to my all-time favorite coffee shop Webster's to do some spreadsheeting

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AND IT WAS AWESOME

to get out of the windowless lab

to hear the buzz of people and smell delicious coffee

and sit in front of the picture window and watch everyone walk by on the street

(WHY are leggings as pants the new fad for college girls? Last year they at least wore clothes OVER the leggings)

and drink my delicious double latte out of the rustic-ish earthenware crockmug

Webster's makes the best lattes in State College, and yes I HAVE tried every single coffee place, thank you very much.

PLUS did I mention it is also a used bookstore???!?

AND serves all local vegan food?

plus 80 kinds of tea

Yeah it made a great office for mind-numbing work, and I was able to feel productive while still giving my brain a chance to relax and think!

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Here is some food for thought from articles I read today (on cultural geography)--

"we call India the land of the sacred cow because some Hindu customs seem strange- this animal is allowed to wander where it wishes, despite being edible it is not eaten, and it defecates wherever it goes. Of course...by the same criteria we could marvel at the USA as the land of the sacred dog"

-Marshall Sahlins, in Crang 2008

Also, a group of British Muslim businessmen started a new soda brand, Mecca Cola, to directly compete and take revenue from Coke because it epitomizes the "excess of corporate America" and thus all things neo-conservative of course.  Sales are significant in the Middle East and also in France, where there is a strong anti-American sentiment.

-Clennell 2003, in Sharp 2008

Are you a fan of Indiana Jones?

Can we say neo-imperialism??

"the films illustrate the triumph of the western individual hero...also of western knowledge and leadership," as "Indy rescues artefacts from the colonised world for the benefit of science...and to recognise the value of artefacts that the indigenous people otherwise do not value" (as well as saving the blonde female and the village).  Hmmm and the colonial-istic paternalism seen as the "good" natives are children under Indy's reluctant guidance, while the rest of the Orient are "bad guys"

-Sharp 2008
[I know you might want to debate this Ben ;)]

Don't you love it when your mind is opened?

Daylight Savings, you are annoying.

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A personal quirk I don't understand is that I can't force myself to get to bed when there's no one else around. I used to go to sleep around the same time as my roomies because I felt lonely up all by myself, but when it's just me, I would evidently rather do anything to stay awake. 

(As long as this anything is not productive or useful, of course)

I am going to cold-turkey shift my sleeping patterns by forcing myself to wake up extra early, in hopes that I will eventually be tired enough to go to bed earlier and fall into a routine.

And also to conserve daylight from the devious and intrusive darkness of annoying winter.

Blahhh.

p.s. More recipes coming soon, most importantly the infamous bran muff.