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Name: Danna
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Chicago
Birthday: 1/19/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: I'm 21 years old. I'm an middle school education major/dance education minor, starting in August 2007 at Illinois State University. Cooking is my favorite thing to do, and after I graduate, I want to go to culinary school. I teach ice skating classes. I figure skate, dance, and sing. My favorite music genre is funky-alternative-leftover-disco-pop with a twist of the 60s. I'm a complete grammar nazi, and I can't stand it when people don't put two spaces after a period or when they put apostrophes where they don't belong. I want to learn how to surf. I can type 120 wpm. I can speak German. And Spanish. And sometimes I get them mixed up. I have my nose pierced. I love coloring books. I want five kids. I have a very low tolerance for stupid, annoying, and rude people. I like chocolate over vanilla, my favorite color is citron green, and if I could have lunch with anyone, it would be Richard Dean Anderson.
Expertise: Movie quotes, accents, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Eva Peron, Lord of the Rings, figure skating, ballet, astrophysics, history, movies, music, ice skating, travel, The Sims 2...
Occupation: College student, K-9 tutor, ic
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message meEmail: email me
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AIM:  AllCuteAndStupid
AIM:  EventHorizon1969
Member Since:
11/23/2004
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| So, no one really uses Xanga anymore...but for crying out loud, those pictures have been up forever. So I thought I would put at least a somewhat up to date entry up.
1. I'm 22 now. Yay for me.
2. I'm going to Elmhurst college probably next year.
3. I'M GOING TO BE A MODEL!!! AND I HAVE A PHOTO SHOOT IN THREE AND A HALF WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Scrooge
By Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Michael Medwin, Laurence Naismith, David Collings, Anton Rodgers, Suzanne Neve, Kay Walsh, Richard Beaumont, Frances Cuka, Karen Scargill, Derek Francis, Roy Kinnear, Mary Peach, Paddy Stone, Gordon Jackson, Geoffrey Bayldon, Molly Weir
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| Oh my gosh!!! I did a speech this morning, and for once, I was really happy with how it turned out! Which is really rare for me. Usually, all I can think about is what I could have done better, but today, I was really happy with what I did. The amazing thing was, I didn't practice at all. Not even once. But I was talking about organic milk and why people should drink it instead of regular milk, which is a subject I'm really interested in and I knew a lot about to start with, so it was a pretty easy and fun speech to give. My visual aid was the best part. It said:
got milk?
then you've also...
-got hormones
-got antibiotics
-got pus
Yeah, I was going for the gross-out attention-getting factor. And I'm pretty sure by the priceless looks on people's faces that it worked. I must say, I've never been happier in my life that a class was over. I mean, I still have a final next week, but it's freaking multiple choice, and it's going to be so easy I could do it in my sleep.
So, I'm going to go take a nice hot bath on this disgustingly cold 6-degree day, as a reward for taking, sticking it out through, and CONQUERING the worst class of all times! Wooo hooo!
A little overdramatic? Nah.
In other news, I saw this picture on Facebook, and it was too good not to repost. Sorry, Gwen, you'll probably hate this, lol...
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It's a Wonderful Life
By James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H.B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Todd Karns, Samuel S. Hinds, Mary Treen, Virginia Patton, Charles Williams, Sarah Edwards, William Edmunds, Lillian Randolph, Argentina Brunetti
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Alright, so I'm in a Women's History class right now. It's interesting...I love the professor, love the class...but after today's class, I've just about had enough.
Today was the women's liberation movement day. Okay, so women got the right to vote. Big deal. It didn't change the vote percentages. Just as many women are conservative and just as many are liberal as men. Now I'm not saying that women shouldn't be able to vote...I am just saying that that seems to be the beginning of what was a very slippery 20th century slope.
So then they were able to get the same jobs as men. Which is also a good thing. Absolutely! I know that there are some women who have to work for a multitude of reasons, and heck, I work and I love it. I totally agree that women should be able to work in the same jobs for the same pay as men. However, what bugs me is when women go WAY overboard and in trying to get equal rights as men, they actually are putting men down and trying to make themselves better than men.
The pinnacle of today's video was when the women being interviewed started talking about God being a she. Yeah, if I was in a lecture or a church and someone said that, I would leave. I'm sorry, God can't become a she just because some women feel they should have equal rights to men! God is more hugely amazing and powerful than any human could ever begin to fathom. If I decided I want Napoleon to be a woman, guess what, that's not going to change a gosh darn thing!
So in conclusion, yes, women should be able to have the same opportunities as men. But for crying out loud, what was wrong with the idealistic expectations of women in the 1950s? That's the woman I want to be. I want to be Donna Reed. I want to vacuum my living room wearing pearls and high heels. I want to make a breakfast and dinner and pack lunches for my family every day. I want to be a room mom for my kids at school, and be the mom that all my kids friends beg to make cookies. I want to look pretty for my husband. I want a husband who will be the head of my house. I want to go back to a time when a woman who didn't go to work was respected and looked upon as a shining role model, not "that poor woman who has to stay home with all those kids." I just want to have...a Wonderful Life.
Alright guys, that's the end of today's diatribe. If anyone has a time machine that can take me back to the 1950s, please let me know. Thanks!
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