today in property Erica and I played who do you think is cute (regardless of taken/single/gay/whatever) slash secret non-crush
stupid property actually wasn't that bad today. yay.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
quote, un quote
Love is the only thing in this life that definitively and triumphantly answers the problem of boredom. Only what you love never gets boring — until you stop loving it. Only what gets old gets boring. And love never gets old. Love is always young, always new, always beginning.
Friday, September 25, 2009
best week ever?
last weekend:
went home
Friday went out
Saturday watched UW beat USC!!!! and place us #24 in the nation, with Brian
Sunday hung out with Brian, went to John and Kerry's, ate blizzards :)
Monday:
surprise date with Wally
brought me flowers and wine
took me to Pearl Jam (and ben harper)
backstage passes
he knew the bassist - who I got to meet :):)
best concert ever
This week:
I'm in law school!!!!!!
got to hang out with Katie
babysat Abbey and Amelia <3
Today (Friday):
I'm going to San Fran
I get to see Danielle!!!!!!!!! And Steffen!!
I'm going with Kylee, Ali and Erin!!
UW v. Stanford game
really, best week ever. Stoked.
went home
Friday went out
Saturday watched UW beat USC!!!! and place us #24 in the nation, with Brian
Sunday hung out with Brian, went to John and Kerry's, ate blizzards :)
Monday:
surprise date with Wally
brought me flowers and wine
took me to Pearl Jam (and ben harper)
backstage passes
he knew the bassist - who I got to meet :):)
best concert ever
This week:
I'm in law school!!!!!!
got to hang out with Katie
babysat Abbey and Amelia <3
Today (Friday):
I'm going to San Fran
I get to see Danielle!!!!!!!!! And Steffen!!
I'm going with Kylee, Ali and Erin!!
UW v. Stanford game
really, best week ever. Stoked.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Goooooo... Huskiesssssss
On Saturday the Huskies won their first Football Game since November 2007, and I was there to experience it. Glorious day.
contageous
I just read this article in the NY times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13contagion-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&em
it talks about how your friends and even friends of friends and friends of friends of friends can influence your lifestyle: whether you gain or lose weight, whether you're happy or lonely or depressed, etc. So strange but SO interesting...
here are some of my favorite points (copied and pasted as it was a 10 pg long article):
By analyzing the Framingham data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses. The Framingham participants, the data suggested, influenced one another’s health just by socializing. And the same was true of bad behaviors — clusters of friends appeared to “infect” each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking. Staying healthy isn’t just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people.
Paul Lazarsfeld, a sociologist at Columbia University, who analyzed how a commercial product became popular; he argued it was a two-step process, in which highly connected people first absorbed the mass-media ads for a product and then mentioned the product to their many friends. (This concept later bloomed in the 1990s and in this decade with the rage for “buzz marketing” — the attempt to identify thought-leaders who would spread the word about a new product virally.) Lazarsfeld also studied how political opinions flowed through friendship circles; he would ask a group of friends to identify the most influential members of their group, then map out how a political view or support for a candidate spread through and around those individuals.
A 2000 study of dorm mates at Dartmouth College by the economist Bruce Sacerdote found that they appeared to infect each other with good and bad study habits — such that a roommate with a high grade-point average would drag upward the G.P.A. of his lower-scoring roommate, and vice versa. A 2006 Princeton study found that having babies appeared to be contagious: if your sibling has a child, you’re 15 percent more likely to have one yourself in the next two years.
Over the next few years, Christakis and Fowler managed a team that painstakingly sifted through the records. When they were done, they had a map of how 5,124 subjects were connected, tracing a web of 53,228 ties between friends and family and work colleagues. Next they analyzed the data, beginning with tracking patterns of how and when Framingham residents became obese. Soon they had created an animated diagram of the entire social network, with each resident represented on their computer screens as a dot that grew bigger or smaller as he or she gained or lost weight over 32 years, from 1971 to 2003. When they ran the animation, they could see that obesity broke out in clusters. People weren’t just getting fatter randomly. Groups of people would become obese together, while other groupings would remain slender or even lose weight.
When a Framingham resident became obese, his or her friends were 57 percent more likely to become obese, too. Even more astonishing to Christakis and Fowler was the fact that the effect didn’t stop there. In fact, it appeared to skip links. A Framingham resident was roughly 20 percent more likely to become obese if the friend of a friend became obese — even if the connecting friend didn’t put on a single pound. Indeed, a person’s risk of obesity went up about 10 percent even if a friend of a friend of a friend gained weight.
Smoking, they discovered, also appeared to spread socially — in fact, a friend taking up smoking increased your chance of lighting up by 36 percent, and if you had a three-degrees-removed friend who started smoking, you were 11 percent more likely to do the same. Drinking spread socially, as did happiness and even loneliness. And in each case one’s individual influence stretched out three degrees before it faded out. They termed this the “three degrees of influence” rule about human behavior: We are tied not just to those around us, but to others in a web that stretches farther than we know.
experiments have shown that if a person is seated next to someone who’s eating more, he will eat more, too, unwittingly calibrating his sense of what constitutes a normal meal. Christakis and Fowler suspect that as friends around us become heavier, we gradually change our mental picture of what “obese” looks like and give ourselves tacit permission to add pounds. With happiness, the two argue that the contagion may be even more deeply subconscious: the spread of good or bad feelings, they say, might be driven partly by “mirror neurons” in the brain that automatically mimic what we see in the faces of those around us — which is why looking at photographs of smiling people can itself often lift your mood.
The subconscious nature of emotional mirroring might explain one of the more curious findings in their research: If you want to be happy, what’s most important is to have lots of friends. Historically, we have often thought that having a small cluster of tight, long-term friends is crucial to being happy. But Christakis and Fowler found that the happiest people in Framingham were those who had the most connections, even if the relationships weren’t necessarily deep ones.
When it came to drinking, Christakis and Fowler found a different kind of gender effect. Framingham women were considerably more influential than Framingham men. A woman who began drinking heavily increased the heavy-drinking risk of those around her, whereas heavy-drinking men had less effect on other people. Why? In the age of frat-party binge drinking, you might imagine that hard-partying men are the most risky people to be around. But Fowler says he suspects women are more influential precisely because they tend to drink less. When a woman starts drinking heavily, he says, it sends a strong signal to those around her that it’s O.K. to start boozing too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13contagion-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&em
it talks about how your friends and even friends of friends and friends of friends of friends can influence your lifestyle: whether you gain or lose weight, whether you're happy or lonely or depressed, etc. So strange but SO interesting...
here are some of my favorite points (copied and pasted as it was a 10 pg long article):
By analyzing the Framingham data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses. The Framingham participants, the data suggested, influenced one another’s health just by socializing. And the same was true of bad behaviors — clusters of friends appeared to “infect” each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking. Staying healthy isn’t just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people.
Paul Lazarsfeld, a sociologist at Columbia University, who analyzed how a commercial product became popular; he argued it was a two-step process, in which highly connected people first absorbed the mass-media ads for a product and then mentioned the product to their many friends. (This concept later bloomed in the 1990s and in this decade with the rage for “buzz marketing” — the attempt to identify thought-leaders who would spread the word about a new product virally.) Lazarsfeld also studied how political opinions flowed through friendship circles; he would ask a group of friends to identify the most influential members of their group, then map out how a political view or support for a candidate spread through and around those individuals.
A 2000 study of dorm mates at Dartmouth College by the economist Bruce Sacerdote found that they appeared to infect each other with good and bad study habits — such that a roommate with a high grade-point average would drag upward the G.P.A. of his lower-scoring roommate, and vice versa. A 2006 Princeton study found that having babies appeared to be contagious: if your sibling has a child, you’re 15 percent more likely to have one yourself in the next two years.
Over the next few years, Christakis and Fowler managed a team that painstakingly sifted through the records. When they were done, they had a map of how 5,124 subjects were connected, tracing a web of 53,228 ties between friends and family and work colleagues. Next they analyzed the data, beginning with tracking patterns of how and when Framingham residents became obese. Soon they had created an animated diagram of the entire social network, with each resident represented on their computer screens as a dot that grew bigger or smaller as he or she gained or lost weight over 32 years, from 1971 to 2003. When they ran the animation, they could see that obesity broke out in clusters. People weren’t just getting fatter randomly. Groups of people would become obese together, while other groupings would remain slender or even lose weight.
When a Framingham resident became obese, his or her friends were 57 percent more likely to become obese, too. Even more astonishing to Christakis and Fowler was the fact that the effect didn’t stop there. In fact, it appeared to skip links. A Framingham resident was roughly 20 percent more likely to become obese if the friend of a friend became obese — even if the connecting friend didn’t put on a single pound. Indeed, a person’s risk of obesity went up about 10 percent even if a friend of a friend of a friend gained weight.
Smoking, they discovered, also appeared to spread socially — in fact, a friend taking up smoking increased your chance of lighting up by 36 percent, and if you had a three-degrees-removed friend who started smoking, you were 11 percent more likely to do the same. Drinking spread socially, as did happiness and even loneliness. And in each case one’s individual influence stretched out three degrees before it faded out. They termed this the “three degrees of influence” rule about human behavior: We are tied not just to those around us, but to others in a web that stretches farther than we know.
experiments have shown that if a person is seated next to someone who’s eating more, he will eat more, too, unwittingly calibrating his sense of what constitutes a normal meal. Christakis and Fowler suspect that as friends around us become heavier, we gradually change our mental picture of what “obese” looks like and give ourselves tacit permission to add pounds. With happiness, the two argue that the contagion may be even more deeply subconscious: the spread of good or bad feelings, they say, might be driven partly by “mirror neurons” in the brain that automatically mimic what we see in the faces of those around us — which is why looking at photographs of smiling people can itself often lift your mood.
The subconscious nature of emotional mirroring might explain one of the more curious findings in their research: If you want to be happy, what’s most important is to have lots of friends. Historically, we have often thought that having a small cluster of tight, long-term friends is crucial to being happy. But Christakis and Fowler found that the happiest people in Framingham were those who had the most connections, even if the relationships weren’t necessarily deep ones.
When it came to drinking, Christakis and Fowler found a different kind of gender effect. Framingham women were considerably more influential than Framingham men. A woman who began drinking heavily increased the heavy-drinking risk of those around her, whereas heavy-drinking men had less effect on other people. Why? In the age of frat-party binge drinking, you might imagine that hard-partying men are the most risky people to be around. But Fowler says he suspects women are more influential precisely because they tend to drink less. When a woman starts drinking heavily, he says, it sends a strong signal to those around her that it’s O.K. to start boozing too.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
active am
did some on demand workouts after legal writing this morning.
AND
I can still do the splits! haha!
P.S. Husky Football Saturday! Here I come! Stoked!
AND
I can still do the splits! haha!
P.S. Husky Football Saturday! Here I come! Stoked!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
argh
my back just gave out
dropped me to the floor immediately
my body thinks I'm 40 yrs older than I actually am
it was super scary (what if it was worse and I couldn't get up after)?
and I still hurt like a mo fo
give me a massage?
dropped me to the floor immediately
my body thinks I'm 40 yrs older than I actually am
it was super scary (what if it was worse and I couldn't get up after)?
and I still hurt like a mo fo
give me a massage?
go, go zeta
I went to alumni mock recruitment at Zeta Tau Alpha tonight. The house looks SO nice (they did SO much to it over the summer, yay re-models)! Afterward a bunch of the alumns went to Piatti in U vill for wine and dinner. I had the bestttt Gnocchi in a pesto cream sauce and a marinara sauce :) andddd some super yummy Cabernet! so so good.
I had a really long day of class.
Now I'm watching some of The Office :) and getting ready for bed. Also, I turned on the heat in my bedroom and shut the door so it'll be cozy for sleep. Wish I had my fav cuddle partner here with me. Sooo bad.
I had a really long day of class.
Now I'm watching some of The Office :) and getting ready for bed. Also, I turned on the heat in my bedroom and shut the door so it'll be cozy for sleep. Wish I had my fav cuddle partner here with me. Sooo bad.
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