| 8 more days of classes...
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| i think we'll use an ivy-style inflated grade scale centered around a B.
1. shooter (r): A-
definitely worth seeing... mark wahlberg is a stud... snipers are pretty friggin baller... i like the erudite indian guy (let's call him gopal)... keeps u at the edge of your seat...
2. reign over me (r): B-
wasn't bad, but wasn't very good... the plot progressed really slowly and wasnt terribly interesting... saffron burrows (played the psycho stalker) is pretty hot.... http://www.askmen.com/women/galleries/actress/saffron-burrows/picture-3.html
3. 300 (r): F (i guess u can fail in the ivy league)
this is like jurassic park 3 bad. redeeming/amusing qualities: imitating the "spartan" accent, the fact that black ppl and ugly people are unambiguously bad, wondering whether they had a chest shaving/airbrushing session before each battle; jabba the hut (from star wars), golum (from lotr), the cave troll (from lotr) and dhalsim (from street fighter) are all cast in the movie...
4. 24 season 6 (tv): D+
i can still sit through it... though instead of eagerly waiting for the commercials to be over, i swiffer my room. i like how any non-white person can play a terrorist e.g. kal penn (quintessential indian) playing a middle eastern terrorist, ah good ole fox.
5. prison break season 2 (tv): B+
schofield is a genius, but sucre is my favorite. and the doctor is amazing too.
6. grey's anatomy season 3 (tv): A- (if you ignore the 3 part mini-series where ___ drowns)
it seems as if white people sleep with each other very easily... hm, maybe i should make more white friends instead of have grey's be a representative perspective on caucasian social affairs.
7. heroes season 1 (tv): A-
pretty good, but u have to accept the whole "supernatural" deal... it was so much easier when u were younger and it was animated.. but nonetheless, its pretty quality. and the protagonist "hiro" is written based on my current roommate, jia hu.
*its kinda sad that i am so caught up on so many shows... ah seniordom.
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| i think im gonna start writing in this guy again. . .
i found out that i got a fulbright fellowship today so im gonna spend next year in china (in yunnan and beijing mostly). i think my roommate jia will join me for the year. woot. and my friend meg got into stanford med... mad props... now im depending on her to pull me in when the time comes =).
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| from the same article that anq cited on burn out-
"If one of the surest recipes for burnout, as Michael Leiter has said,
is the sensation of inefficiency—particularly if we're still expending
energy and seeing little in return—then there may be something about
the modern office that conspires to burn us out. In 2005, a
psychiatrist at King's College London did a study in which one group
was asked to take an IQ test while doing nothing, and a second group
to take an IQ test while distracted by e-mails and ringing telephones.
The uninterrupted group did better by an average of ten points, which
wasn't much of a surprise. What was a surprise is that the e-mailers
also did worse, by an average of six points, than a group in a similar
study that had been tested while stoned.
That's right. Stoned. Those people were literally burned out, and they
did better."
http://nymag.com/news/features/24757/
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