Girls crave ice cream on their periods? And other astounding news.

Whenever I find out something incredibly amazing (or, more likely, incredibly stupid to the rest of the world), I take some time to tell everyone about it. I don’t know why, especially because I always get this response of “what the heck, really?”. But I really had no idea that girls crave ice cream on their periods…or at least that’s what one person of that gender proclaims. I wonder what kind of ice cream though…cookies n’ cream? vanilla? strawberry? cherry garcia? Would froyo count as a substitute? (I’m sure for Stacy it would…but it’d have to be Red Mango. The spoons at Mochi piss her off…although they have changed recently).

Anyway, a big welcome to Marilyn for joining the blogosphere! I really find her blog, Cupcakes for Cupid, to be quite the cute one; everything from name to design is just absolutely terrific haha. I also like how she tells a little bit about her personal life in them…but not too much so we don’t end up all creeping on her. I know personally that if I ever told anything of my personal life, viewership on this blog would go from the very little it has to absolutely nothing, haha.

Bored? Trying to procrastinate? Trying to procrastinate on studying like I am? Here ya go.

• There is still much unrest in Tunisia and in the capital Tunis after President Ben Ali fled after nearly three decades of what some might say was authoritarian rule. While the nation is not considered among the most wealthy of Arab nations, it definitely was not third-world or rundown by any means. Economic development was steady, but the youth were growing increasingly furious about the rampant unemployment. The soup was bubbling…until a fruit vendor couldn’t take it anymore. When he set himself on fire in protest after being kicked off the street for not having a permit to sell fruit on the street, he may have not thought his actions would have carried any momentum. Little did he realize that he may have not only changed Tunisian history forever, but may have also set the wheels in motion for other revolutions in the future in the Middle East.
• I finally wrote my first poem today for my Creative Poetry class. It’s about mud. No, seriously. I’ll show it later after it gets critiqued. I’m sure it’ll flop.
• The Tucson shootings finally revealed for the first time the presence of the Radical Left. The Radical Right has shown itself plenty of times in the past few months and years (aka the Tea Party Movement and its more radical followers). But the Radical Left is, quite frankly, a little more frightening. As much as I hate Sarah Palin and her lack of noggin in her head, she has her right to speak her mind. I do believe genuinely, and obviously, that no one spearheading the movement, not Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin, wanted anyone to be physically afflicted from their idea of a revolution. They do not deserve the blame that they are the ones who caused the Tucson shootings to occur; this was simply the idea of a crazed man who took it way too far.
• Of course South Korea would have a guy named Mr. Toilet. Of course Mr. Toilet would have a house in the shape of a toilet. And lastly, of course South Korea would make a museum out of Mr. Toilet’s House. My god.
• Help me out, French friends (Natalie? Stacy? etc.?). A bunch of French kiddies were shown “vintage” electronics, aka what we used to use when we were their age (floppies, Game Boy (non-colors), etc.) and asked what they thought these things were. The answers will make you crack up just a little bit.
• Woman walks straight into a fountain while texting. Enough said.