Rest in Power

They may not be life changing but they are surely words of wisdom.

BRIDGING MADNESS

I THINK THIS IS SO FUNNY. HAHAHAHAHA. (MANIC LAUGHTER.)

(Thanks Ynes!)

Edit: more fine print: at first I wrote and published "I THIS IS IS SO FUNNY" ...bridging madness.

Good Reads

A Jonny Wilkinson article full of on point reflections

My obsession to win has, in the past, made my life hell. My whole self-worth was caught up in that for a while but I've learnt to maintain perspective. 

"Why I Retired At 26" By Rashard Mendenhall, NFL Running Back, Arizona Cardinals

Let's a go!

Saw this video here on Gizmodo

And while Googling for this post I stumbled across this pool of nostalgia ^^: Mario Kart sounds

LOTRTDMME ROUND 2 THIS WEEKEND HYPEHYPEHYPE

New Year, New Inspiration

Aerial Boston (Fenway & Boston Common) from Above Summit on Vimeo.

The Meanings of the Selfie, by James Franco :)

"Asians are the Wedge"
Lots of good stuff, but also I've heard people try to put Asians down as an immigrant group by saying "you know, you guys have the highest median income - even higher than Whites!" but this article makes the important clarification - "However, per capita income of Asian Americans is lower than for whites. Asian households make more because they contain more earners, probably as a result of living in households that benefit from the retirement incomes of elders." 

and continues on to say:

More troubling, according to the report A Community of Contrasts, the 2011 per capita income of Taiwanese Americans was $38,312. However, per capita income of Hmong Americans was only $10,949. That makes the Hmong the lowest per capita earners by ethnicity among all Americans. And Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Bangladeshis are pretty much in the same boat, earning even less than African Americans.
Worse yet, the model minority myth is dehumanizing. Casting us as super human is the flip side of casting other people of color as less than human, making all of us strangers to a normative standard that is white.
As long as we are treated as exotic others, the script can be switched, and Asians may find ourselves back where we started, cast again as foreign invaders. Either way, we’re still a wedge in the hands of white supremacy.

Dreams

And I quote,

3 major dreams: 

1. being chased through snowy trails and streams in the dark of night by brown and polar bear cubs + moms 

2. a brief rugby scenario where brian earley was also there and did not acknowledge me, no dogs. i was pleasantly surprised 

3. damn i just forgot! dana called while I was chopping food for mom cooking, some weird stuff while laying over in philly while I hooked up the phone to my computer but kept getting pop ups and fighting viruses while she sang a song with psychedelic electronic visuals, also faxed Meesh / the team's fax machine?? ("tell emhsieh she left some of her stuff at our house, the place is messy but not trashed though") and I was all huh??? I've never been to Germany let alone her house hahaha and I def didn't trash the house either lol meesh and I were so confused... also where did she find her/our fax number?? so smart. 

3.5 some big man coach was teaching some high school boys about lineouts and making zero sense, spewing wrong information and tactics everywhere. sue parker and I were both like wtf 

4. battle around school area / tower where got shot but still teleported enemy to hospital afterward with dream apparition powers 

5. running through the deserted empty streets of providence to try and get back to my car but the streets are pitch black and no lamp posts. super scary so I turned around to head back under the bridge to thayer street district where things are lively and poppin' and brightly lit. 

6. stan was back in town! and told someone to read her blog 

that was more than 3.

Some background: To hold all of the [non-zero (but likely less than 1) number of] fans over until my next update... here's exactly what I wrote down in my overflowing dream log on Monday when I awoke with sickness and promptly went back to sleep. In my very brief and blurry moments of consciousness I managed to get all of this down in a somewhat clear and organized manner. I was pleasantly surprised when I emerged from deep slumber 5 hours later to find this window into my subconscious brain. Enjoy!

ps. I have a lot of things in the blog pipeline, I promise! ...just a little too lazy (read: disorganized) to get myself together and post. They're coming soon! Happy holidays :)