baby got back

I know I'm bottom-heavy, okay? My roommate legitimately thought for the first 2 months when we lived together that I was part Puerto Rican until I mentioned my real heritage. (I have not one iota of hispanic blood in me. It's all white English/Swedish...so exotic.) I have had other (male) friends also remind me of this detail most likely followed up with some inappropriate insinuation. I'm not sure how to feel about it, but they are my friends, so I do not take too much offense.

However, if we are not friends, you do NOT have the right to comment about the junk in the trunk.

While I was dancing in the RB, some guy--albeit an aquaintance--told my partner to stop looking down as he followed me in a hockey stick to spiral, overturned syncopated cha-cha lock section. The guy said, "I know she has a big one, but you have to look up."

Cue nausea and discomfort and red face and confliction of internal vs. external reaction.

My poor partner is this little freshman, and was probably just looking at the ground, as many unfocused or concentrating dancers are wont to do at times. He's also not the type to laugh at those kind of "jokes." It was awkward to say the least. And not just awkward. It was humilliating, but if I were to express this, then I'm the prude who can't take a joke. Now I see how easy it is to get away with sexual harassment.

So I know this post kind of has a mixed message. I'm being light-hearted and serious at the same time. It's probably because society would tell me to lighten up, but my psyche is a bit more sensitive than that. I guess people just need to know their boundaries. All I know is that I felt uncomfortable today, and I should have said something.

Oops

To the onlookers of the Regency Apartments at approximately 12:13 a.m. January 7, 2011:

I'm sorry that you saw more of me than you cared to know. Please accept my sincerest regrets.

Love, Tanya



So, my apartment window faces the road and sidewalk that everyone files through to get to their apartments. Sometimes my roommate leaves the blinds open. I forgot this one night, and got completely undressed when I looked up and realized that my room was a shining beacon to the viewers of the night. Merry Belated Christmas.

Karma is sometimes kind

Guess what? I found a $20 bill in almost the exact spot I wiped out yesterday. It was folded very thinly and blended in the sidewalk quite well because most people walked right past it. I'm glad I took a double take. One up for low self-esteemers or the overly paranoid of ice who look down when they walk! (I was of course the latter.)

I know it's probably really annoying to read when other people get lucky. But this seriously never happens to me. (I know they say that too.) I was, however, unlucky in other (more meaningful) aspects of life today, so I'm not going to feel too bad for this one.

'Tis the season

First day of school. Thanks to the blizzards over break and the persistent below-freezing weather that has created massive ice/snow chunks all over the sizewalks, this was me this morning:

It's going to be a looooonnngggg winter.

(P.S. I want to give a shout out to the random boy that I involuntarily grabbed on my way down. It saved me from completely wiping out in front of the large crowd trudging to school. Sorry I was too embarrassed to look at your face to thank you.)

Bleh November

Netflix just added a bunch of new movies on their "watch instantly" feature. I use someone's username and password, so I can't rent movies, but I can watch whatever is on their internet selection. Most of the time it's a couple good movies among a bunch of lame or straight-to-DVD kind of movies. I feel like I've watched everything worth watching on Netflix, so that is why it is a pleasant surprise when they periodically add more.

I watched Sweet November. Ugh. I should have read Ebert beforehand. He is [almost] always a trustworthy critic. Keanu Reeves? Romantic? Really? I didn't buy it. It was somewhat painful and dull.

Meh. You win some. You lose some.

P.S. I'm also mad that last month I rented An Education. I mean that I actually went to Blockbuster and paid a whole 3 dollars because it was nowhere to be found in the plentiful Redboxes around town. If I had only known it would be on Netflix a month later... Oh well, it was still a delightful movie. I'll write about it sometime.

New Years Resolutions: Day 1

Eat more vegetables.

I'm not a photographer, and so this probably doesn't look that appetizing, but I'm trying to put more pictures on my blog to make it more interesting now that I have a working camera. As you can see, that is a full plate of salad and steamed vegetables. Not to mention lentil soup on the side, which can also count as a serving of vegetables according to the Food Guide Pyramid.* This ratio of regular food: vegetables is going to apply to all my lunches and dinners until further notice. (Ideally it would be my whole life, but I don't want to give myself too daunting of a goal.) I'm also trying to cut out flour and sugar, which I was once successful at doing, and my body thanked me tremendously. I'll have to finish off a couple of items in my pantry, but soon I will be a flour-free, sugar-free, dairy-free herbivore. Bring on the spinach. Happy living!

*I normally don't follow the Food Guide Pyramid because I believe it mainly to be a bureaucratic device with a political agenda. Okay, that's maybe a little too cynical, but in a nutshell it is not the end all to human nutrition. As Michael Pollan says, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

New

I'm thinking about cutting my hair.

I just might make it a New Year tradition.