What I Need and Want

Here's another fun activity: Google "Your Name + Needs" and "Your Name + Wants," then compile a list of the results. Funny stuff. Apparently, I'm pretty needy and I want a lot of stuff.

Caroline needs to be more sexy.
Caroline needs new management. So who's to blame for the contamination of the sewer system?
Caroline needs to calculate an hourly heat input rate for her natural gas.
Caroline needs at least ten frogs from each location.
Caroline needs a job.
Caroline needs the money but is reluctant to take from a child.
Caroline needs an MRI every year for the rest of her life.
Caroline needs to be able to trust her heart.
Caroline needs help to deliver food and medicine to the starving Cheyenne people, to whom she owes her life.
Caroline needs to help the cake loosen slightly before it comes out of the pan.
Caroline needs some work on her teeth.
Caroline needs a kiss...
Caroline needs a better fiancee!
Caroline needs to be prevented from leaving the house.
Caroline needs to learn, roses really smell like poo poo.
Caroline needs to come get dirty with us one week!
Caroline needs boys, preferably ones in bands and floppy hair.
Caroline needs the support of the local farming community.
Caroline needs some Fanta too.
Caroline needs to be mocked for saying this.
Caroline needs to ask, “Do we want to end up like that?"
Caroline needs to have some good food in her.

Caroline wants to know why you called her a dork on my myspace?
Caroline wants advice on what to do about the stolen parcels.
Caroline wants a baby but she's confused.
Caroline wants you to send her email – that’s entirely consistent with her character.
Caroline wants to talk to Michael, she has something important to tell him but he wants to know more about her. Why is she so mysterious and secretive?
Caroline wants to be recognized for the patterns of light in her paintings and drawings.
Caroline wants to buy her own tuba.
Caroline wants to wear her leotard and tutu to school every day until she makes prima ballerina.
Caroline wants to skip college and become a runway model.
Caroline wants to be a pilot.
Caroline wants you to know just how awesome we are.
Caroline wants to drive from Fairbanks, Alaska to the tip of Chile.
Caroline wants to visit the Cotswolds, she heard it was “edgy” 500 years ago.
Caroline wants to know what love is like.
Caroline wants to see you in your hot and sexy boxers and a smile...and nothing else!
Caroline wants to be known as Carlo von Tiedemann.
Caroline wants me to learn to play "Sweet Home Alabama."
Caroline wants to make love to Matt’s car, or in Matt’s car, or on Matt’s car.
Caroline wants me to look at how high she can swing.
Caroline wants you?
Caroline wants to contribute to world domination.
Caroline wants to point out that there was also a scorpion, though that was lurking under the bed in our room.
Caroline wants to study botany and is accomplished at mathematics - not desirable traits in a woman in Regency England.
Caroline wants to go back to New York.
Caroline wants him, but he definitely doesn't want her.

I Walked on the Moon

If you feel like doing something really sentimental but kind of cool, here's what you should do. Off the top of your head, make a list of the first 50 children's books that you remember reading (or listening to) when you were young. I'm taking a Children's Literature class, and although the activity I just described was not assigned (well, not exactly, we do need to choose 50 children's books to read, so I made the list to brainstorm some ideas for that), I really enjoyed doing it. It's crazy to think about, because I've always been a voracious reader, and my childhood was when it all really started and it's kind of cool to look back and see how it affected who I am now. Anyway, so I'm looking forward to rereading some of my favorite books from back then, but also ones I don't remember as well or have never read. It's crazy, I looked up a book that I remember my fourth grade teacher reading to us, but I never read it myself. So it will be interesting to see how much I remember. I also found one that I did a book report on in sixth grade, that I remember nothing about. So, should be interesting.

Actually, it got me thinking. How cool would it be to design a class (probably as a psychology class) that forced students to look back at their own childhood and own development to find the things that shaped them - their opinions, interests, etc. For me, the books I read were a huge part of that. For someone else, maybe it was the TV shows they watched, or the places that were familiar to them, a sport they used to play, etc. I just think it is an amazing activity to look back at something you haven't thought about in years, and it would be interesting to see if it still seems familiar, possibly affected your development in some way, or if it seems completely foreign and apparently didn't affect you. Anyway, enough about whatever. Just if you feel like being sentimental (and a touch egotistical), then you should do it sometime.

I have another current event!! I'm not sure how long this trend will last, but I guess if there is something interesting to talk about, then I'll bring it up. So, apparently there's going to be some sort of collaboration between Google and NASA. Can you think of anything more awesome? I think they're just at a stage where they're throwing out ideas, but they sound pretty awesome to me ("awesome" twice in two sentences, terrific grammar, really). They are talking about commercial space travel, possibly some extreme sport team that plays in zero gravity, etc. Anyway, so I'm definitely looking forward to that. I wouldn't mind a vacation to the moon, personally.

Hmm...that just reminded me of Brian Regan's DVD of one of his live shows. If you have not heard of this man, you are missing out. He's a comedian and I think that he's hilarious. He has a way of pointing out the humor in everyday life. Anyway, he talks about wishing he was one of the astronauts who has been to the moon, so that he could top any story at a dinner party with just the line, "I walked on the moon." It's funny stuff, you should really look it up.

Anyway, that's it for today, I have class in about 9 minutes, so bye!