Thought Question Thursday

Down in the Valley-The Head and the Heart

What is this...a blog post!?!

So lack of updates in over a month....
I do have a good excuse, my internet is horribly slow at home and having to wait ten minutes for the page to load kind of kills any inspiration I have to post, but I am going to try to do better. I will be in Maine for another month or so and then moving to my new apartment, which I almost put my address up, but decided that might not be the thing to put on a blog, so I will just say my new apartment: Apartment 209. Until then, I am going to try harder to update regularly, I cannot promise daily, but we will see how it goes.
For the summer I plan on continuing my Thought Questions, maybe not every Tuesday and Thursday, but more often. There will be no music or playlists...which is a fail of a music blog...but I do not have the bandwidth to upload music. I have been reading a lot, thanks to an account with Paperbackswap.com and I do plan on doing some book reviews to make up for the lack of music, not that it is the same at all.
In the fall I will continue my Thought Questions and should be back to making playlists. I will hopefully become apart of my new school's radio station, which does online streaming, if I have the time for that. The book reviews may stay, but will surely be less often, unless I do reviews of my books for class. I do not have the time for pleasure reading like I do now.
That is the outlook of the blog, but no promises. :)

Thought Question Tuesday

Love

Happiness

Health

Money

Fame

Sorry for the lack of life on my blog... I am not lacking in life. I've been busy with packing, graduation and avoiding thinking while in Ithaca, other than thinking about yummy food. There will be updates soon. Hopefully a new playlist by Monday when I am flying back to Maine. Once I am in Maine, due to limited internet, there will be few playlist updates, but lots of text. :)

Get Out of this Place While we Still Have Time

I graduate from college on Sunday. Two more nights at a place I have spent the past four years. So many mixed feelings. I really can't put into words how I am feeling right now. I'm at a point where I am going to miss what I've had here...but I am so thankful it is almost over. There are so many people I can't wait to escape from, and while I will miss the awesome ones, they are not really gone. I can still call and email and write and all of those things. This week has put me in a Jimmy Eat World mood, which I am going to share with you...

Work-Jimmy Eat World

And the acoustic version

Thought Question Thursday

Sorry this is late. I've had a very busy day, enjoying the last time I have with my EC friends... :(

Capitalism

Good Day

Today was a wonderful day, I actually managed to forget that in a few days I am leaving all kinds of wonderful people. Part of the night was a party at my favorite professors house. Here are two photos that were given to another professor by a friend and I.

Good Day-Jukebox the Ghost 

Thought Question Tuesday

Get settled into my new life. By that I mean, make new friends and connections. Feel at home in a new city. Feel comfortable in the department and as a graduate student. I want as smooth as a transition to my new life as possible.

Hot Farmers

Tonight I discovered some photographs of old men who were farmers who were naked, doing farm chores. I sent these pictures to select people and it was funny. To make up for it I am now going to post some hot farmers on my blog, by some, I mean one. I could only find one picture of a hot farmer in the ten minutes I looked. I must say that all farmers are hot, even if they do not look that way in pictures. I am very much into a man that gets dirty and works to produce the food I eat. Plus I would like to live on a farm and having a relationship with a farmer would be a great way to do that.

Men I Would Like to Have Children With, But I Can't:Abe Lincoln

So I'm starting a new feature on my blog... Men I Would Like to Have Children with, But I Can't. If you have any suggestions be sure to let me know.
The first man on my list, is Abe Lincoln.

If you don't know who this man is and you are an American citizen, then you fail at life. If you are from another country, I will give you some key facts...

His full name was Abraham Lincoln and he was born February 12, 1908. He was the 16th president of the United States and the president during the Civil War, which he won. His life was ended prematurely when he was assassinated April 15, 1865. He is one of the most celebrated presidents and is featured on the penny.

Old Abe Lincoln-The Instruments Band

I am going to mention why I can't have his children first, cause it is so much shorter...he is dead.

Why I want to have children with this man:

1.His beard. I am a huge beard fan, beards are probably what keep me heterosexual. While I will admit, kissing men with beards doesn't always feel so hot, they are hot to look at. President Lincoln's is one of his trademarks and one of the reasons I want to have his children. I would not worry about being attracted to him, which makes making children more fun. More importantly, if we had children together I wouldn't have to worry about our sons having an inability to grow glorious facial hair. There is power in the beard.

More reasons after the jump...

Better Life?

I'm not a fan of living in the United States. I disagree with many of the cultural values. Where in the world could I go where I would have fewer qualms with the culture? Well I discovered, with the help of an article from fastcompany.com... this article, a really awesome tool for comparing other countries.
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/

So let me describe it. This is the OECD Better Life Index. The OECD is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and is a group of 34 countries. The index covers 11 categories that are used to measure quality of life. Each country is ranked in each category, then you get to rank how important each category is to you. When you are done you get a visual of what country, based on these categories, would you be most happy living in. The website does a better job explaining it.
The most interesting thing is how they are using the users rankings. By seeing how you rank the categories, the OECD Better Life Initiative will be able to better understand what matters to people. So if most people rank income high and education low, for example, that means to make citizens happy more effort should be put into raising the income.
I really love this index. I love how fun it is for me as a user to see what countries can better provide what I look for, but even more for how it is working as a research tool. While you can only go so far to categorize happiness, I think this tool is useful to learn what really matters to citizens. What does make our life better.
For me Canada, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark all ranked high, with Turkey failing.

Empty

I know I said I would try to do a cheerful playlist, but not happening. We had a memorial today for Dr. Michael J. Kiskis and it made me reflect on my whole life. Not only was it about the loss of an amazing man for me, but how in a week I am losing so much of what I hold dear. My life is changing and I have so many mixed feelings about it. I am going to let the playlist speak for itself, but expect more reflections soon...

Playlist if you continue