Not sure how I ended up here, but according to this NYT blog post

80 percent of women and 67 percent of men agree that women can hold paying jobs and also be good mothers.

Is it just me, or is 67% not quite supermajority enough in this instance?

An amusing conversation set off by the now-famous elaborate movie trailer proposal:

guy: whenever i see stuff like that i think to myself, “i hope not all women expect that”
guy: sets the bar too high!
me: come on, let’s be honest here
me: when it comes to men, sometimes expecting competence is setting the bar too high
guy: if only more women understood that, things would be easier!

And of course, this all goes back to a topic I know very well, one which my roommate and I discuss almost constantly: Are the women of today partially responsible for setting the bar so low for men? Because…

guy: among other men, we think we’re all competent.. enough

Hi kids! I know I’ve been a bit absent here, but people like Jack keep telling me that sleep is important, so I’ve been attempting at focus. Not sure how successful I’ve been.

But, I have very exciting news to share! I’ve managed to fill my happy little Android phone full of apps, and one recently acquired utility was this lovely WordPress app, so posting has just become a whole lot mole mobile, and theoretically convenient. It should be fun, don’t you think?

Everyone who knows me at all has probably already realized that I act like I’m a million years old. As a teenager, my beliefs and attitudes could probably have been easily described as positively middle-aged, and nothing has gotten better since then. When your mother displays younger online behavior than you do, you know something’s wrong. For example, my mother loves Farmville, whereas I ignore all the Facebook app requests I receive.

So, very fittingly, despite my love for instant gratification, I have this bad habit of judging people based upon the grammatical mistakes they make in their texts and IMs.

It’s not that I’m constantly walking through our entire chat looking for case agreement, but if all your messages look like some permutation of “wr r u gon b,” I just might jump out of a window. Anyway, today, I finally found some moral support! (Ok, actually it’s the first person aside from MX, but who’s counting?)

From my beloved NY Times:

Adam Horowitz, 23, spends all day on e-mail at his office. When he leaves it behind, he picks up his phone and communicates with friends almost entirely via texts.

Yet he sometimes feels caught between the two, as when he texts with his younger brothers, ages 12 and 19, who tend to send even shorter, faster messages.

“When they text me, it comes across in broken English. I have no idea what they’re saying,” said Mr. Horowitz. “I may not text in full sentences, but at least there’s punctuation to get my point across.”

Oh, my poor neglected blog. Yes, it’s true that I barely even take the two minutes to create twitter updates anymore, but that’s no excuse for not showing you the proper love you deserve!

Let’s see, what have I been up to? Eating, cooking, working, not so much sleeping. But every once in a while, usually just after I talk to people about how Colin Firth is my favorite actor and they remind me that I’m a 50-year-old on the inside, weird things happen that remind me that I’m not so old after all.

What was on the plate this week? How about healthy servings of angst, confusion, self-discovery, heartache, regret, and the first blushes of love floating all around me? Combine all this with long conversations lasting till the break of dawn and the corresponding lack of sleep, and suddenly the swirls of drama start to feel a bit too much like high school all over again. So instead of my cordless dorm phone with its 4-digit campus extension beeping from the battery drain, I had my dear laptop complaining that my Skype video chat had sucked away all its power.

In the end, the topics don’t seem so changed. As always, they seem forever centered on some permutations of girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys. I really oughtn’t go around complaining about people who display no more maturity than they did at age 14, because honestly, I look at my life, and really can’t help noticing that the more things change, the more they stay exactly the same.

• Sleeping in a tent is awesome! #
• Obsessed with crime procedurals. Help? #

• Just realized that Lady GaGa's Alejandro sounds so much like Ace of Base's Don't Turn Around. A bit slow on that one, I was #

• @numinous25 Aww, poor Mimibot. I'll be learning your lesson soon! in reply to numinous25 #
• Dad buys tons of ice cream when others are bundling up. Now I know where I get it from #
• Addicted to Chinese snacks and candies, and now I've managed to scale the Wall. It's happy time! #
• Attempt to install Ubuntu and dual boot with win7 = fail. Also, CO ate my seat assignment for return flight. Tears! #