Friday Fragments//Jumu'ah Jottings #4- None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds

The week has trickled off to an ending and instead of feeling my usual ecstatic self all I know is that I need more than this. Somewhere between procrastinating, crying, and episodes of House I realized I've got to be more than the change I see in the world. I've got to be the world.

So perhaps, I won't be the entire world but, I've got to be a piece larger than I am now. So double the fragments, and double the possibilities!

Friday Fragments//Jumuah Jottings #4

My brother is becoming increasingly ignorant. I think Rice was a complete waste of money. I asked him why he has yet to marry to which he answered "Oh her shipping and handling price was too high." :|

I instructed him that this was ridiculous females do NOT have shipping and handling cost. He said, "No? Because this broad said I'd have to move her here, and deal with her." He said he'd ship her but, refused to handle her.
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The Nuns from Saint Marys came to visit the class this week. I'm not sure what happened to separation of church and state but, there they were in a public school. They gave the children 'holy water.' Billy asked if the whole school was holy. Apparently the sisters were running low on supplies as we caught them filling the small bottles in the school fountain.


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Over Heard Moments @ the Elementary School:

Student # 1: So...how do blind people wipe their ass?
Student # 2: The same way everyone else does. Oh...oh my god, that's gross, Wendy. Most people don't look at it.

Hot Male Parent # 1: Have you read or seen He's Not That Into You?
Random girl, to uninterested guy: No.
Hot Male Parent # 1: Well, I highly recommend you read it!

My sister to my brother: "You shut up! I'm genetically superior" -- who says that!? lol
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Did You Know?!

• Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter.
• It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced!
• Cows don't have upper teeth.

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I went to see one of my best friends Zahra over S.break. We thought it would be funny if we could both fit into my old 'obese' sweatpants. When we tried to take a step, she fell on top of me. She started peeing uncontrollably.


We had to cut ourselves out of the sweatpants.

-FML

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Over S.Break I went to get my nails done. I got a pedicure because not only did I want it but, I needed it. The lil Asian man doing my nails keep exclaiming how I needed to get them done more often....I beg to differ. Nails are not a medical condition. Anyways I told him that my feet were in such a bad condition because I'm a dancer. He said, "You either come mo often or you no dancing." I told him to stop dancing wasn't an option. I think he thought if I don't dance I won't have money, which means I can't get my nails done. This is also code for him basically thinking I was stripper :|
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I bought this snazzy bracelet inspired by Twilight on Etsy.

Jealous?

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Word of the week

Recessionista - A person who is able to stick to a tight budget while still managing to dress stylishly.

see also: Octomom
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This week was about sharing, sharing with the world whatever you have to offer. Two students shared similar stories of death. I didn't know at the time they were the murders. One girl hugged her cat to death while the other placed her bunny in the family dryer. I felt bad but, laughed. It wasn't a quite laugh either.

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There’s this whole movement about bringing back nature into the concrete jungles we’ve built in the past 100 years but this is probably the most direct yet indirect way of doing it. Those painted line dividers we see everywhere serve a huge purpose but in an attempt to humanize and naturalize them, designer Ji-Hye Koo covers them with Nature On A Tape - essentially a pre-potted strip of grass that’ll grow with no effort.



It’s sculptural and 3-dimensional but who’s gonna trim it tho?
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I love when my grandma speaks to me in Spanish except when it's angry spanish. That usually ends crazy. Abuela quote of the week "In a calm sea, every man is a pilot."
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I saw this little girl outside of the post office with her mom. She was in tears. Apparently she had discovered her first love and of course he disappointed.Her mothers snapped at her "Jessie, stop pouting! Boys never actually love girls. The heart of love is fear."

I scribbled she's wrong one a post-it note and tapped it on the window. I wonder if she believed me.
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Ron Paul doesn't go the gym. He stays fit by exercising his civil rights.
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This week in 4th grade we read Harriet the Spy. The children wouldn't stop calling her Whore-iette.

I don't like how the girl in the book behaves.
So I let them keep doing it.


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I gave up Oreos and Pizza for Lent, I gained 14lbs.

F my life.

I'm not even Christian

and I'm still hungry...


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Instead of having the D-bag of the week I'm introducing

Useless information I learn as a Marriage and Family Relationship therapist

1.)In India it is cheaper to have sex with a prostitute than buy a condom!

2.)There are men in Guam whose job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the 1st time.

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Signing off , wishing each of you a lovely and blessed weekend.

And so the lion fell for the lamb...

Twilight, is a tale of a normal high school girl who falls in love with a not-so-normal high school boy. The saga of Bella Swan and the bloodsucking Edward Cullen gained Meyers a Beatle-esque following of fans. With that kind of built-in fanbase, who could blame Hollywood for wanting a bite of that juicy, red money-making apple? The thirst for money over content becomes blatantly apparent within the first 10 mins of film.

Twilight is a thematically flawed film based on a book that was ingenious in conceit but generically written. The strengths of one are the flaws of the other, and vice versa.For the most part the characters, setting, and plot remain the same. The movie begins to loose it's touch rushing through a series of characters, locations, and scenarios making the story line difficult to follow.

Edward comes across as 100ish-year-old albino who likes classical music and deer blood while Bella is a quiet teen from a broken home who likes sweaters, ballet and alone time. The most crucial aspect of Twilight is the love of Bella & Edward. In the movie however all of that seems minor at best.

Sure, the basic premise of vampire meets girl, both fall madly in love is buried somewhere in the shotty acting, distorted time line, and weak production. But, that ladies and gents is why Twilight failed in the manner in which it has. The details are in the fabric and it seems the script-writer didn't get the memo "Hey, P.S. Twilight is based on a BOOK."

• [Screen Writer]Remember back in middle school when you forgot to read the actual book? Well let's just say that the screen writer did alot of texting Cha Cha/ Spark Notes reading.
  
• The editor doesn't get off so easy either. He came across as a procrastinating college student who turned in Twilight as a rough draft for an 8 am midterm with no sleep and less than 24hrs notice. [Since when can Vampires fly?]
  
• The actors get no blame from me. But, this isn't because they have talent. This is because between the bore of a script that was 'dialogue' and horrid timeline they weren't given an opportunity to perform as they should--Save the exception of "Charlie".
  
• The Production Team should have the insight to recognize potential conflicts between characters & scenarios.Seems to me that somewhere during production a person was missing to ask a simple, "seriously, what the hell?!"

**When Bella and Edward share their first kiss they come across overtly sexual and entirely too eager, most importantly, Bella appears without pants on. If he's so afraid of her fragile state and beauty then why approach her alone, at night, in a dark bedroom, while she wears no pants?!

**Rosalie cooks dinner, with winter mittens on. Who wears mittens indoors? Jasper has all of 3 lines in the film. 'Billy Black' is apparently fluent in Ebonics. Jacob, a main character in the 2nd book, appears but thrice- each for less than 5 mins and , is she seriously gonna try and convince me that in a town of 3k people there's a minority around every corner?

** Bella and Edward go from from near-restraining orders to a boundless love.Seriously who do they think they are fooling? The Cullen's seem too eager to accept Bella as 'family'-- despite the fact that they have known her all of a week. They risk everything they've built within Forks AND their very lives to protect her. Uh, seriously? Way to be expedient with your trust and affections, folks.

**The best part of Twilight had to be the height and texture of Robert Pattinson's hair.The utter defiance of gravity to the beautiful R. Pattz's haloesque coiffure is truly the most magical thing in the film. He plays on screen as a total babe but, this is the extent to his 'talent'.Much of Bella's action takes place during a turrets-like seizure occurring from a 'venom' bite.Kristen Stewart is a cutie but her character is whiny, clingy and has a nearly unbalanced obsession. I'm glad there were other voices of reason within the theater moaning ,"The hell is wrong with this brod she known him for 8 mins!?"

Twilight is a decent movie.With it's unintentional humor, subdued wit, and enticing scenery Twilight definitely posses the ability to be a beautiful movie. In fact, I would watch the film again. Books can be made into movies without completing loosing all dignity: Harry potter,LOTR,X- Men, Sisterhood of... etc. Twilight fails.Of all scenes 'Family baseball' is a sure fan favorite. But, that's because it's true to both the characters and the novel. Much of the budget was spent on expensive scenes/angles while the rest of the movie (including it's entire plot) suffered.Twilight wasn't disappointing, it is dissatisfying. In all realism I didn't expect the movie to be half as mind blowing as the book. But, there is a line between a movie which interrupts the vision of the book and that in which the movie doesn't do (the book) it justice.

The cinematography, soundtrack, and location were not only a huge plus but probably what saved the little of Twilight that's decent.The deal with Apple and Google remain disgustingly apparent and obnoxiously noted. Twilight is just awkward.It has 'fangs that aren't bared, and a bloodlust that isn't indulged.'The entire movie becomes not only, hard to follow but, a struggle. I read the series and while I appreciate Stephanie Meyers as a writer I wish she had the insight to fight for the film Twilight could have--better yet, should have, been. The movie unintentionally plays out as a parody to the book. And, that's venomous.

This film gets: C-