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By Lena Walsh This time honored question has plagued the great philosophers of the centuries as THE topic for their discussions since the beginning of humankind (and if not, then I’m sure they were thinking about it!). I am a strong follower of the Yes They Can! Camp but I will never leave my sentiments at that because this issue- as all good debates in life should be- is not black and white, but everything in between.
I am a red-blooded straight woman who also happens to count many straight males as friends. One in particular does stand out--for the purposes of discussion let’s call him Man X--and this seriously complicates my understanding of men and women as friends. Let me begin with the fact that I love being such great friends with men, Man X in particular.
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Over the years, I’ve had the chance to visit New York City a number of times thanks to my aunt and sister who live there. To be honest, I couldn’t imagine ever loving the city when I first visited as a child. Even though I had grown up in cities like Seoul and Hong Kong, I found New York City to be too chaotic! After spending a few weekends and finally a whole summer in the city, I fell in love.
Although I enjoy trying new restaurants, I often times find myself returning to my favorite spots a little more often than I should be. So without further adieu, here are five of my favorite dining spots in downtown Manhattan. By Jessica Tincher of Rose Colored Glasses Thanks, sassy fortune cookie. I have had a lot of jobs in my day, and probably half of them were unpaid internships. The oddest internship that was ever offered to me was a summer research job studying cranberries with my Sri Lankan Plants, Soils and People professor… I respectfully declined.
The runner-up for oddest internship that I was ever offered was for a ‘comparative cognition’ psychology lab that my super cool Brain and Behavior professor worked in, and I actually took that one. To translate, the lab researched the way that dogs process information so that it can be compared to humans. Further translation, they play games on a computer to get treats. I’m NOT an animal person. At all. So taking that internship was a real testament both to how cool that professor was, and how badly I wanted a letter of recommendation for graduate school. [There is a reason that I am telling you all of this, there is. And it has to do with breakups, promise]. From this quirky little internship I picked up a catch-phrase that has stayed with me and greatly influenced both my interpersonal interactions and style as a therapist. It is what I was taught to say to dogs when they made an incorrect choice on their computer game, therefore passing up an opportunity for a treat. The phrase? THAT IS UNFORTUNATE. By Valerie Frost I was a Sims addict between the ages of 11 and 15. There was a phase when I turned down several of my friends’ invites saying, “Sorry man, I’ve been thinking about The Sims all day, I’ve just got to go play it.” It was the perfect game for me: I would spend hours making mostly versions of myself with various future husbands, along with Sims versions of my friends and family so they could interact with me in the game. I didn’t spend much time playing as other people, but created them only to be in the lives of the Val Sim. Besides designing the characters to look as similar to their real-life counterparts as possible, I spent the majority of my Sim time creating houses and furnishing them. I usually spent just enough time playing to make my characters fall in love and “woo -hoo.” Since I used cheats to acquire unlimited Sims currency, money was no object. Their objective was to be happy and in love. I wanted all of their “needs” bars to be completely lit up and their relationship to be at 100% with a smiley face and a heart.
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