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New place, new food carts, new hipsters, but the same ol same ol...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:57:42 -0600

New place, new food carts, new hipsters, but the same ol same ol ;)

Pacific NW morning sky

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:38:28 -0600

Pacific NW morning sky

Tattoos on my mind

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:55:40 -0500

I really want an owl a bright and big one (crazy, but I want it on my back…my whole back)!

Time to start drawing and playing with colors!!

Barcelona, Spain May 2012 Wish I were there sipping fine wine...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:33:35 -0500

Barcelona, Spain

May 2012

Wish I were there sipping fine wine and enjoying the nice breeze!

Lunch

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:27:45 -0500

Today I only have steamed rice to eat for lunch, I am too poor to go out/order in to eat and then there is me being lazy and not wanting to walk in the sizzling heat!

…oh yea and I’m indecisive so it would take me 30-40 minutes to try to figure out what I want to eat.

Ugh it would be a lot easier if someone just handed me some food, without capers please :)

gastrogirl: mini strawberry pie pop.

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:25:48 -0500

gastrogirl:

mini strawberry pie pop.

latimes: Teens text for study and don’t hold back the...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:57:38 -0500

latimes:

Teens text for study and don’t hold back the profanity, sex, drugs: For the last four years, the University of Texas at Dallas professor has been collecting texts sent by and to 175 adolescent students at a large suburban Texas high school as part of a study dubbed the BlackBerry Project.

You’d think the students would self-censor their texts — since they know Underwood and her students are watching — but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

In an early look at the data, Underwood found that 7% of the texts contain profane language, and that 6.6% of messages contained sexual language, which is similar to what other researchers found when analyzing conversations in teenage chat rooms.

In fact, when a friend texted one participant about selling drugs, the participant wrote back, “Hey, be careful, the BlackBerry people are watching, don’t worry, they won’t tell anyone.”

Underwood has promised the participants that their privacy will be protected, but she has a researcher monitoring the stream of texts they send and receive each day to look for worrisome words like “rape,” “kill myself” or “older man.”

She has also intervened a handful of times when a student has run away from home.

So far, Underwood has been busy mostly with collecting the texting data rather than analyzing it.

And in fact, she says she has tried to limit the amount of time she spends reading the texts as they come in.

“I have someone who works for me who checks it everyday, but I don’t look at it too often because I’m immediately absorbed by it,” she said. “It is so rich and they say so much to each other, and they use such sophisticated language, it just sucks me in.”

Oof, I feel that last part. Sometimes I get sucked into reading the Tumblrs of teens who follow us.
— S.

Photo credit: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times

latimes: latenightjimmy: THIS IS HAPPENING! President Obama on...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:57:14 -0500

latimes:

latenightjimmy:

THIS IS HAPPENING! President Obama on Fallon tonight!!!

Guys, we hear the president will be slow-jamming the news tonight…

gastrogirl: chicken fried rice.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:41:19 -0500

gastrogirl:

chicken fried rice.

gastrogirl: honey lime chicken enchiladas.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:38:24 -0500

gastrogirl:

honey lime chicken enchiladas.

What The F***

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:39:46 -0500

Ugh some people are just so rude and act like they don’t want to hear your problems or feelings just because they keep theirs all bottled up inside like a 1970’s fine red wine!

I, on the other hand, am NOT like that! If I have something to say, damn right I am going to say it and tell people how I feel, regardless if it means I am taking things too personal.

If I weren’t a nice person I would tell you to GFY to your face and do it close to a door so I can then shut the door in your face and hopefully make you cry!

Ugh, asshole!

Opinion: Latinos Ahead of President Obama on marriage equality?

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:15:33 -0600

nbclatino:

President Obama has said his position on gay marriage is “evolving.” (Photo/Getty Images)

BY GARY SEGURA, CO-PRINCIPAL, LATINO DECISIONS

On October 27, 2010, President Barack Obama famously said that his opinion on marriage equality for same-sex couples was “evolving.”

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