Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Thursday, 22 January 2009
closer
My right foot hurts and this time it's actually my own fault. (No idea why it hurt last time, but that was probably my fault aswell seeing as it's my foot and I'm me.) You see, yesterday, or well, this morning at 1:30:ish am, I decided to get some rice cookies from one of my cupboards. Since I like to make things difficult I decided to sort of "climb" the bench up to the cupboard. That wasn't one of my best ideas. It started with me jumping up and hitting my forehead on one of the shelves (I have a mark there now), which isn't all that bad I suppose, but when I jumped down I think the carpet slipped under me and I somehow twisted my foot and ended up laying on my kitchenfloor with a hurting rightfoot and staring up in the ceiling while thinking "this is why you stand on the chair". This does seem like a really stupid thing, but it's still better than explaining to people who I got a scar on my thigh; "I dropped a bowl".
In other news: I think I might've destroyed 90kg red paint today, the Thaifood wasn't all that and I still wanna set my neighbours' apartment on fire. Of course, that'd drag my apartment down aswell, which I think would be a bit sad. On the good side I did standardise two colours and my weekend starts in 2 hours and 57 minutes.
In other news: I think I might've destroyed 90kg red paint today, the Thaifood wasn't all that and I still wanna set my neighbours' apartment on fire. Of course, that'd drag my apartment down aswell, which I think would be a bit sad. On the good side I did standardise two colours and my weekend starts in 2 hours and 57 minutes.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
natural
I've always been against plastic surgery. Mainly because I've had the "well, this is how I look, I just have to deal with it" and mainly because my problem with not liking myself never really was purely physical. I think it's like that for a lot of people who have plastic surgeries. They have a picture of how they look and they don't see the reality. So imagine my surprise when I browse around our daily newspaper (same as always, of course) and find this:
HOLLYWOOD. Here's the site that entices free plastic surgeries.
Behind the bizarre idea in Los Angeles are two Scandinavians.
'We want to make the world a little bit prettier', says one of the two founders,
Behind the bizarre idea in Los Angeles are two Scandinavians.
'We want to make the world a little bit prettier', says one of the two founders,
Swedish Martin Wahlström.
"Operation perfect" is intended to men. The duo use pictures of semi-naked women in order to get the visitors to open their wallets.
'Yes it's like that. The girls want to be seen and the guys want to look', Wahlström says.
The idea, which is launched this week, is built on donations.
Without contributions there will be no operation.
'Yes it's like that. The girls want to be seen and the guys want to look', Wahlström says.
The idea, which is launched this week, is built on donations.
Without contributions there will be no operation.
First out is a Swedish girl who calls herself "Thina". "Today I live in Stockholm. I'm 20. WIth bigger, rounder and sexier breasts I would feel so much sexier" she writes on the site.
So far she has gotten a little more than a percent of the total sum.
'It is up to the girls themselves to decide what kind of operation they want to do. It doesn't have to be breasts. It can be liposuction, butt, thighs.'
No marketing
Wahlström claims that girls are standing in line to be a part of this.
'Without us having done any marketing we've already recieved a few hundred applications. That a Swedish girl is the first one out is a mere coincidence.'
So far she has gotten a little more than a percent of the total sum.
'It is up to the girls themselves to decide what kind of operation they want to do. It doesn't have to be breasts. It can be liposuction, butt, thighs.'
No marketing
Wahlström claims that girls are standing in line to be a part of this.
'Without us having done any marketing we've already recieved a few hundred applications. That a Swedish girl is the first one out is a mere coincidence.'
'The goal is to establish the site all over the world. We already have girls from Italy, Germany, South America...'
Promised nightclub life
The girls who are chosen for operations will be sent to Los Angeles, California, where they'll be operated without costs. They are also promised modelling photographing, make-up and nightclub life.
'We have discussions with plastic surgeons who have participated in American "make-over"-shows. They are very interested in this, Wahlström says.
Also the ones who vote or donate can win trips to Los Angeles. On the site two nights at a hotel and a dinner with the girl who won an operation is promised.
'For us the income will be with the advertising on the site, Wahlström says, who has a past at Slitz Magazine and who has launched the now resting project "Glamour of Sweden".
'We have discussions with plastic surgeons who have participated in American "make-over"-shows. They are very interested in this, Wahlström says.
Also the ones who vote or donate can win trips to Los Angeles. On the site two nights at a hotel and a dinner with the girl who won an operation is promised.
'For us the income will be with the advertising on the site, Wahlström says, who has a past at Slitz Magazine and who has launched the now resting project "Glamour of Sweden".
I know that I'm a naïve woman who thinks that everyone should love the world and themselves and that my way of viewing the world might not be they way everyone else sees it, but this... I mean, wouldn't it be better to offer the poor girls therapy? Heck - I'd teach them the phrase "I am great just the way I am" for free.
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
crackpotland
You know, I still feel wonderful. I feel like I did when I went to high school, but better. I was on the top of the world then, but now... Now it feels so much better than it did then. It's "crackpotland" times a thousand. Being me, I'll probably crash really hard some day, but you know, I've been there before and I can manage. And you know what? It isn't fate, it isn't karma - it's just me and my attitude.
I read an article about the guy who writes the speeches for Barack Obama. I want that job.
If you ever need a speech-writer you know here to find me. I'm very good at speaking. And writing. And combining those two.
People run from me. They really shouldn't do that. I'm nice. I'm friendly. And I tend to hunt them down and ask them why they run. At least I used to. Lately I've been trying the "let them come to me"-thing and it's not going that well. So I'm gonna hunt them down again.
I read an article about the guy who writes the speeches for Barack Obama. I want that job.
If you ever need a speech-writer you know here to find me. I'm very good at speaking. And writing. And combining those two.
People run from me. They really shouldn't do that. I'm nice. I'm friendly. And I tend to hunt them down and ask them why they run. At least I used to. Lately I've been trying the "let them come to me"-thing and it's not going that well. So I'm gonna hunt them down again.
Monday, 19 January 2009
hunter
Lately I've been feeling like "a million bucks". Seriously. I've been feeling wonderfully, amazingly, incredibly fantastic and beautiful. I think it's my attitude towards life and other people that makes me feel this way, because nothing has changed really.
Still, I can't help wondering what I've done to make people ignore me. Or well, they say they don't, but I still can't help feeling that there's something they're not telling me.
Oh well, if they don't wanna speak to me they don't have to. I'm through with forcing people. I'm through with chasing people. I'm through with caring about people who doesn't give a fuck themselves.
And I still feel fabulous!
Still, I can't help wondering what I've done to make people ignore me. Or well, they say they don't, but I still can't help feeling that there's something they're not telling me.
Oh well, if they don't wanna speak to me they don't have to. I'm through with forcing people. I'm through with chasing people. I'm through with caring about people who doesn't give a fuck themselves.
And I still feel fabulous!
Sunday, 18 January 2009
flawless
I have a bunch of weird ideas. Or well, they seem weird to others - they're perfectly understandable to me. Just take the one about me not wanting a headset because that'd make me one of the geeks you see at the Internetcafés late at night when normal people sleep. The fact that I'm virtually one of them already (well except that I'm at home), doesn't matter. Then my parents gave me a headset for my birthday... It almost made me cry inside - I'm one of them now.
I also have this idea about baking. As you probably know I'm completely useless when it comes to making dinner. It's all about chemistry and feeling so technically I should be really good at it. It's just that... I don't know - I suppose I just don't have the love for it. Well that and the fact that knives and frying pans scare me.
Anyway, when it comes to baking I don't mind that it takes time, so I never make things that are like "shake and bake". I make my cakes and desserts from scratch. (Well, I don't make my own butter or flour, but you get the idea.) I brag about how good I am at baking and how perfect my cakes are and I look down on everyone who doesn't put the true effort in. (Of course... if you confuse baking powder with vanilla sugar that effort might not be worth much...)
Yesterday my mom bought me pie-thingies. The shake and bake-way.
I have to stop being this arrogant.
I also have this idea about baking. As you probably know I'm completely useless when it comes to making dinner. It's all about chemistry and feeling so technically I should be really good at it. It's just that... I don't know - I suppose I just don't have the love for it. Well that and the fact that knives and frying pans scare me.
Anyway, when it comes to baking I don't mind that it takes time, so I never make things that are like "shake and bake". I make my cakes and desserts from scratch. (Well, I don't make my own butter or flour, but you get the idea.) I brag about how good I am at baking and how perfect my cakes are and I look down on everyone who doesn't put the true effort in. (Of course... if you confuse baking powder with vanilla sugar that effort might not be worth much...)
Yesterday my mom bought me pie-thingies. The shake and bake-way.
I have to stop being this arrogant.
Friday, 16 January 2009
sillyness
We've got cookies (well more biscuits, but you get the point) from some German company here. They taste... interesting. So interesting that I took one bite and then threw the cookie away - we're speaking big cookies. A million spices, chocolate cover and then some form of paperlike material for the bottom. Remind me to never end up like an old lady who's having "coffee and biscuits" in the afternoon. I had way too many of those biscuits as a kid.
The 'daily article' from our sensation paper is about why some women have a body shaped like an hourglass and why they're monogamists. After some searching I found the original article and after reading through it I realised that yes, once again our daily paper is making stuff up. You really gotta love the amazing news coverage they have.
Biology, not heart, provokes infidelity
Beautiful women who have affairs can now blame it on their sex hormones.
Women with higher levels of oestradiol, a form of oestrogen, not only look and feel more attractive, they are also more likely to cheat on their partners, a new study has found.
One-night-stands are not what interest these flirtatious females, who tend to have bigger breasts, relatively small waists and symmetrical faces as a result of their high levels of oestradiol.
Rather, they adopt a strategy of serial monogamy, say the researchers, led by Kristina Durante of the University of Texas.
"Without necessarily being consciously aware of their motives, highly attractive women are probably able to capitalise on their desirability and continually acquire a higher-quality long-term mate by trading up when the opportunity arises," said Dr Durante.
A James Cook University psychologist, Frances Quirk, said Marilyn Monroe, with her hourglass figure, was a classic example of a high-oestradiol female. "And her relationship history is a fairly good match," she said, noting the actress's marriages and affairs with increasingly important men.
Associate Professor Quirk said the study added to other evidence that hormones such as testosterone and oxytocin influenced the sexual and social behaviour of men and women. "The bottom line is that we are driven by our biology a lot of the time."
Dr Durante's team tested the level of oestradiol, which is linked to fertility,
Women with higher levels of oestradiol, a form of oestrogen, not only look and feel more attractive, they are also more likely to cheat on their partners, a new study has found.
One-night-stands are not what interest these flirtatious females, who tend to have bigger breasts, relatively small waists and symmetrical faces as a result of their high levels of oestradiol.
Rather, they adopt a strategy of serial monogamy, say the researchers, led by Kristina Durante of the University of Texas.
"Without necessarily being consciously aware of their motives, highly attractive women are probably able to capitalise on their desirability and continually acquire a higher-quality long-term mate by trading up when the opportunity arises," said Dr Durante.
A James Cook University psychologist, Frances Quirk, said Marilyn Monroe, with her hourglass figure, was a classic example of a high-oestradiol female. "And her relationship history is a fairly good match," she said, noting the actress's marriages and affairs with increasingly important men.
Associate Professor Quirk said the study added to other evidence that hormones such as testosterone and oxytocin influenced the sexual and social behaviour of men and women. "The bottom line is that we are driven by our biology a lot of the time."
Dr Durante's team tested the level of oestradiol, which is linked to fertility,
in the blood of 52 women aged between 17 and 30.
Those with higher levels rated themselves as more desirable than average, and were judged to be significantly more attractive by others. They had had more long-term relationships than those with lower levels of the hormone, and "reported a greater likelihood of flirting, kissing and having a serious affair with someone other than their primary partner", Dr Durante said.
The results were consistent with the possibility that "highly fertile women are not easily satisfied by their long-term partners and are especially motivated to become acquainted with other, presumably more desirable, men", she said. "Importantly, such motivations do not seem to stem from a greater interest in casual sex."
Those with higher levels rated themselves as more desirable than average, and were judged to be significantly more attractive by others. They had had more long-term relationships than those with lower levels of the hormone, and "reported a greater likelihood of flirting, kissing and having a serious affair with someone other than their primary partner", Dr Durante said.
The results were consistent with the possibility that "highly fertile women are not easily satisfied by their long-term partners and are especially motivated to become acquainted with other, presumably more desirable, men", she said. "Importantly, such motivations do not seem to stem from a greater interest in casual sex."
This is the actual article. According to our paper these women might also belong to the category that other women dislikes. Do you have any idea how much this would explain if it was true? That would mean that the women here at work who absolutely detest me (they're quite many) do it because I have a high level of oestradiol in my body. Interesting.
We had a test of this ourglass-thing when I went to high school. Our psychology teacher showed pictures of two women. For me they looked exactly the same, but the guy next to me instantly said that the right one was more attractive. When I asked him why he said that it was because she had a smaller waist. The female students didn't see this, but almost all of the male ones did. A bit strange when I come to think of it, but then again - a small waist means that the hips are shown as wider, which (as stated in an earlier entry) is a sign that a women is good with carrying children. So I suppose it all really does come down to biology in the end... Which means that this article didn't really prove anything at all. Way to go!
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