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(10/25/12 8:58pm)
My older sister has four children. This year Ahava, Cirillo, Alejandra and Jose will be nine, three, two and one years old, respectively. She lucked out since she has the best of both worlds, two boys and two girls. Anyways, these rascals keep us all young with their endless energy. Not to mention, they’re also the ultimate form of entertainment.
(10/04/12 11:57pm)
Whether it’s ooVoo, Skype, Facebook, or FaceTime, nearly everyone has had a taste of online video chat. It’s nice seeing people that are far away on a screen and getting a little bit more than you would by phone. It just so happens that this past week was a busy one for FaceTime.
(04/28/12 5:00am)
I detest talking on the phone almost as much as I hate texting. Texting leaves too much room for people to misinterpret words and then you have to worry about diffusing unnecessary arguments. That's why people include smiley faces everywhere, beware of using the winking face though, that one's creepy. While tiptoeing around words ruins texting, cautious pauses ruin talking on the phone. I can attest to the fact that 90 percent of the time that I'm on the phone with someone, I ultimately interrupt them because I thought they were done. As for the other 10 percent of the time, I wait too long and the conversation enters the realm of awkward. Luckily for me, I'm blessed with a family that is just as socially inept at phone conversations as I am. Last week was my little brother's spring break and as a sophomore in high school I foresaw him hanging out with his friends and playing ball. That was wishful thinking. Living with him all my life, I know playing games has evolved into something bigger than an ordinary addiction for him. Therefore it was no surprise when my dad affirmed my belief that he had confined himself to his room playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. My brother and I have an "extreme" sibling dynamic. One minute we can be expressing our mutual love for one another by hugging, talking about sneakers and reliving past memories. Then the next, we're verbally assaulting each other, using every curse word you can think of and even making some up. This usually escalates to physically inflicting harm on each other, which I still get yelled at for doing. There is no middle ground for us. We're either bonding or fighting. The rest of the time we don't acknowledge each other's presence. I figured I would call him at home and make sure he ate something. When he's in the zone he won't conjure up the energy to even go get a bowl of cereal. Naturally, he only picked up after I started yelling on the answering machine. I proceeded to interrogate him with the usual "Did you eat? What did you eat? Have you started your homework?" Even though it only lasted a minute, we proceeded to talk over each other and get the gist of what we were saying without a hitch. I know I'm not alone in my feelings about talking on the phone. It's awkward. Don't you hate that the other person is purely going off of what you're saying, and not in accordance with your reactions (don't start arguing for the use of inflection and tone of voice conveying your reactions, it's not the same)? It's severing an important connection, which is why I would rather talk in person. If you happen to be a content phone talker and you have the ability to go and see the person you need to talk to, try talking in person. You never know, you may build a stronger relationship.
(03/28/12 5:00am)
By now, it's common knowledge that kids these days are way more grown than we all were a decade ago. The evidence lies in Facebook relationship updates, risqu?? attire, potty mouths, references to sex and drugs, etc. But that still didn't prepare me for my niece, Ahava, and her scolding me this past weekend.
(03/14/12 5:00am)
As a freshman, coming to college was scary. Not because I was moderately far from my family, but because my willpower to not eat all the good tasting stuff would be tested. In high school, when college students came back to visit, the majority of them were out of shape. When we saw some that managed to be in better shape we were like, "Oh wow! That's possible!" Already almost halfway through my second semester, I'm seeing more and more people getting fit. At first, I thought with all this work and stress, it's no wonder people have no time to work out. But after talking to my friends, I realized that they want to get healthy because there are no parents around to force us. You'd be surprised to know how many people make the effort to get up early and trek to the Rec Center - and now in Wolman students need only stroll downstairs. Some have built-in exercise since many of them are involved in sports and dance teams that meet later on in the day. It's great that a lot of us are trying to live a healthy lifestyle because when we get older keeping our bodies right will not be so easy, as my mom likes to constantly remind me. Seeing as how my mom is no longer as young as we college students are, she joined a Weight Watcher's group at her job. Every two weeks, a Weight Watchers consultant comes to my mom's job, weighs everyone and jots down any progress that they're making. Lately, my mom has been seeing a noticeable change in her body. Well, when I called her up the other day, she exclaimed that she lost two pounds. I congratulated her, but she wasn't finished yet. She then started to tell me how the scale initially said that she only lost 1.6 pounds, but she knew she lost more so she stepped off the scale, took off her earrings and went back on to see 1.8 lbs difference. Her heavy earrings weighed .2 lbs! She was so shocked that it made such a difference, that she proceeded to go down the line of the rest of the ladies waiting to be weighed and ordered them to take their jewelry off if they wanted an accurate reading. So for all of you Hopkins students, if you're trying to get in shape, make sure you take off your jewelry. Better yet, weigh yourself naked so your numbers are very accurate.
(02/22/12 5:00am)
You know how some things land on either end of the spectrum?