Room to Think

So...it's 2am and I just got into bed after leaving a wonderful party with some friends who don't hang out nearly often enough.  =)  I hope you all got home safely!  =P You know the rule--I haven't gone to sleep, therefore, it's still Friday, and I'm still doing Florence Friday, despite being rather exhausted.  My exhaustion spawns from the upcoming week, and all the things I need to finish for classes, not necessarily from the wee hour at which I am writing.  But that, dear readers, is a rant for another time.  Maybe I'll even include a list. For those of you who know me, you know that I got into cars because a boy I liked liked cars--I've acquired quite a few passions because of boys--specifically, this car.  The Lamborghini Gallardo.  I'm quite fond of it in orange, but I believe Jeffo would prefer his as a shade of white (it's a specific white, I can't remember), though he doesn't mind looking at it in other colors as well. H...

Happy Tuesday everyone! The 2012 Bi-annual TED conference started today! My facebook news feed and blogger reel have exploded with updates from TED, and it's great.  It also means I've spent close to three hours watching TEDtalks today.  It was wonderful and awful at the same time, because I know how much homework I'm putting off right now.  It's even worse that I can write off watching so many TED videos as "doing homework" for this blog. Most of the TEDtalks I've watched tonight pertained to dance, or music, or the arts.  They were brilliant, interesting, and captivating.  I even found that if there was a speaker involved with the dancing, or with the music-making, I was more prone to remembering what they were saying, even if the talks themselves were over 30min long. I guess there's an element of hybridity that's encouraged in TEDtalks.  We've moved beyond that phase of Orator + Powerpoint = presentation.  (thank god) TED en...