Going to see them live in London in December. If the show is half as cool as this... holy shit I'm in for a great one!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Lemar Ft. JLS -- What About Love
There's a ballad to add to the Best Boy Band Ballads Playlist. HOT DAMN.
Monday, February 15, 2010
GOT A JOB OFFER!!!
OMG OMG OMG!!!
I got a job offer at that place I interviewed at recently. Wow! I'm sort of in shock still, didn't expect that at all.
It sort of makes my blog feel lame, because the intention was to write all about my struggles to find a job and whatever, but now I have an offer! Less than two months in. Wow.
Of course I still write on here about graduating and whatever. Oh and finding an apartment in my new (old!) town and um, FINDING A CAR!! Next few months are a little less stressful now, but still very very exciting! Can't wait!
But shit man, life just got real!
WOoooooooo!!!
I got a job offer at that place I interviewed at recently. Wow! I'm sort of in shock still, didn't expect that at all.
It sort of makes my blog feel lame, because the intention was to write all about my struggles to find a job and whatever, but now I have an offer! Less than two months in. Wow.
Of course I still write on here about graduating and whatever. Oh and finding an apartment in my new (old!) town and um, FINDING A CAR!! Next few months are a little less stressful now, but still very very exciting! Can't wait!
But shit man, life just got real!
WOoooooooo!!!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
PLAYLIST #2: 10 HOT GRIME TRACKS
Grime is a genre of music that I really really like, but people don’t really know what it’s all about (as it’s not necessarily mainstream in the US). If you Wikipedia Grime you’ll learn all about how it started in East London and whatever. The important part is that it integrates a sort of dancehall beat that is all chopped up. Grime isn’t necessarily rap or hip-hop, there are some pretty cool bands that fall under the Grime genre as well. Here are 10 ahhmazin tracks for you to get to know the genre:
1. Dizzee Rascal -- Bonkers. Dizzee is the king of Grime. He is one of the first to make it mainstream and chart in the UK. Bonkers is one of his more recent singles, and definitely demonstrates the cut-up feel of the genre.
2. Hadouken! – Turn the Lights Out. Hadouken! Is an example of a grime band that isn’t necessarily hip-hop or rap. Turn the Lights Out is a fast paced jam that totally warrants the use of lots of lasers in a performance.
3. Chipmunk – Diamond Rings ft. Emeli Sande. Chipmunk is one of the pioneers of the genre, along with Dizzee Rascal and Tinchy Stryder, that has helped made Grime more mainstream in the UK. This is one of Chipmunk’s first big singles.
4. Tinchy Stryder – Take Me Back ft. Taio Cruz. This is my favorite Tinchy song. If you listen closely you’ll definitely hear the dance track on the back, with Tinchy and Taio going over the top with a more hip-hop feel. Hot.
5. Griminal – Invincible. This song is another great example of how Grime artists cut up the beat. There is a definite stop/start feeling to the rap bits, very cool.
6. Wiley – Take That. This song can get a little annoying, but it exemplifies Grime amazingly. And some of the rhymes are pretty sick. “I saw a member of the group Take That!” I love that line ;-)
7. Lady Sovereign – Love Me or Hate Me. Bet you didn’t realize Lady Sovereign was Grime. She is. Better believe it.
8. Kano – Against All Odds by Chase and Status. This isn’t Kano’s original song, it’s actually a Chase and Status dub-step masterpiece, and a bit of a crossover between the Grime world and the dub-step world. Definitely a hot track.
9. The Streets – Let’s Push Things Forward. Classic. The Streets is ahhmazin, I had the hardest time trying to pick a good tune that would fit the playlist, they are all excellent.
10. Tinchy Stryder – Number 1 ft. N-Dubz. Tinchy is so amazing I needed to put two of his tracks on here. This track features Dappy from N-Dubz, an artist that has a unique style unmatched by most in the industry.
1. Dizzee Rascal -- Bonkers. Dizzee is the king of Grime. He is one of the first to make it mainstream and chart in the UK. Bonkers is one of his more recent singles, and definitely demonstrates the cut-up feel of the genre.
2. Hadouken! – Turn the Lights Out. Hadouken! Is an example of a grime band that isn’t necessarily hip-hop or rap. Turn the Lights Out is a fast paced jam that totally warrants the use of lots of lasers in a performance.
3. Chipmunk – Diamond Rings ft. Emeli Sande. Chipmunk is one of the pioneers of the genre, along with Dizzee Rascal and Tinchy Stryder, that has helped made Grime more mainstream in the UK. This is one of Chipmunk’s first big singles.
4. Tinchy Stryder – Take Me Back ft. Taio Cruz. This is my favorite Tinchy song. If you listen closely you’ll definitely hear the dance track on the back, with Tinchy and Taio going over the top with a more hip-hop feel. Hot.
5. Griminal – Invincible. This song is another great example of how Grime artists cut up the beat. There is a definite stop/start feeling to the rap bits, very cool.
6. Wiley – Take That. This song can get a little annoying, but it exemplifies Grime amazingly. And some of the rhymes are pretty sick. “I saw a member of the group Take That!” I love that line ;-)
7. Lady Sovereign – Love Me or Hate Me. Bet you didn’t realize Lady Sovereign was Grime. She is. Better believe it.
8. Kano – Against All Odds by Chase and Status. This isn’t Kano’s original song, it’s actually a Chase and Status dub-step masterpiece, and a bit of a crossover between the Grime world and the dub-step world. Definitely a hot track.
9. The Streets – Let’s Push Things Forward. Classic. The Streets is ahhmazin, I had the hardest time trying to pick a good tune that would fit the playlist, they are all excellent.
10. Tinchy Stryder – Number 1 ft. N-Dubz. Tinchy is so amazing I needed to put two of his tracks on here. This track features Dappy from N-Dubz, an artist that has a unique style unmatched by most in the industry.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Scary
Just received this email:
"Subject: Spring 2010 Convocation
Beginning this year, the University of Chicago's spring quarter
convocation will be conducted as a single campus-wide ceremony. The
new unified spring convocation and subsequent diploma ceremonies will
take place on Saturday, June 12, 2010. President Zimmer will confer
degrees at the convocation ceremony, starting at 10 a.m. on the
University's main quadrangle. Following convocation, graduates and
their families will either proceed directly to a diploma distribution
ceremony followed by lunch, or will enjoy lunch first and proceed to
a diploma ceremony thereafter (the Chicago Booth ceremony will be
held off campus that evening). Your school will contact you with the
details of these and other graduation-related activities. A schedule
of convocation events and diploma ceremonies will be available soon
at http://convocation.uchicago.edu."
SCARYYY!!! I'm graduating in... FOUR MONTHS. Holy shit I never thought my time here would end, not I'm flying towards the real world. Slow downnn!!
"Subject: Spring 2010 Convocation
Beginning this year, the University of Chicago's spring quarter
convocation will be conducted as a single campus-wide ceremony. The
new unified spring convocation and subsequent diploma ceremonies will
take place on Saturday, June 12, 2010. President Zimmer will confer
degrees at the convocation ceremony, starting at 10 a.m. on the
University's main quadrangle. Following convocation, graduates and
their families will either proceed directly to a diploma distribution
ceremony followed by lunch, or will enjoy lunch first and proceed to
a diploma ceremony thereafter (the Chicago Booth ceremony will be
held off campus that evening). Your school will contact you with the
details of these and other graduation-related activities. A schedule
of convocation events and diploma ceremonies will be available soon
at http://convocation.uchicago.edu."
SCARYYY!!! I'm graduating in... FOUR MONTHS. Holy shit I never thought my time here would end, not I'm flying towards the real world. Slow downnn!!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Celine Dion - Titanic (LIVE)
I've been speculating with people about what we are going to see at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies on Friday night... well, this is my ideal performance. Celine. Dion. Titanic. EPIC.
Think about it.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
MUNUC 2010
So as I may have mentioned previously, I'm a Model United Nations nerd. Like, I do A LOT of Model United Nations. So much so that I should probably get paid to do it. (Actually, there are some vague ideas about finding ways to get paid to do MUN, haha). Anyways, this weekend was MUNUC, which is my university's high school conference. At Conference I served as the President of the Security Council (yeah that's right). I had two pre-set agenda topics for the kiddies, the Situation in North Korea (aka nuclear nonprolif) and the Situation in Zimbabwe (lol Mugabe). We spent three of the four days discussing North Korea, which was fine, and the kids wrote and passed three sort of vague resolutions on the topic.
Then, Saturday night we had a super fun fancy midnight crisis! So basically we just dragged all of the delegates out of bed at like 1:30am to discuss a serious crisis situation that had just arisen. We sort of made up that the PM of Zimbabwe was poisoned, and then that Mugabe died... which meant that Zimbabwe had no leader and was in total clusterfuck status. I think it said that inflation was in the sextillion percent range... haha. The kids had to debate and ultimately pass a resolution on the issue before we could go to bed. I think we finished at like 6:00am or so. I don't know, I finally got into bed at 7:15am. And then got up like 15 mins later...
Sunday I didn't hold session because that would have been cruel, but I wandered around to a lot of the other sessions to see what was going down. I may have sat on the ECOFIN dais for awhile, but I was so out of it that I don't really remember. It was fun though.
MUNUC is fun because its quite unique to my school. I went to this conference when I was in high school, and it was by far the best I went to. When I began undergrad here I knew that I definitely wanted to get involved and I had the opportunity to make a lot of ahhmazin friends through the organization. This was my third year staffing the conference (I missed it last year when I was in Paris), and I'm definitely pleased with my experiences. I def cried a little bit when the conference ended today (to be fair, a lot of people did, lol sleep deprivation).
Never fear though, I've got THREE more conferences this year! So I'm sure you'll hear a lot more about my silly MUN experiences. Going to bed now... maybe.
xoxox Nora
Then, Saturday night we had a super fun fancy midnight crisis! So basically we just dragged all of the delegates out of bed at like 1:30am to discuss a serious crisis situation that had just arisen. We sort of made up that the PM of Zimbabwe was poisoned, and then that Mugabe died... which meant that Zimbabwe had no leader and was in total clusterfuck status. I think it said that inflation was in the sextillion percent range... haha. The kids had to debate and ultimately pass a resolution on the issue before we could go to bed. I think we finished at like 6:00am or so. I don't know, I finally got into bed at 7:15am. And then got up like 15 mins later...
Sunday I didn't hold session because that would have been cruel, but I wandered around to a lot of the other sessions to see what was going down. I may have sat on the ECOFIN dais for awhile, but I was so out of it that I don't really remember. It was fun though.
MUNUC is fun because its quite unique to my school. I went to this conference when I was in high school, and it was by far the best I went to. When I began undergrad here I knew that I definitely wanted to get involved and I had the opportunity to make a lot of ahhmazin friends through the organization. This was my third year staffing the conference (I missed it last year when I was in Paris), and I'm definitely pleased with my experiences. I def cried a little bit when the conference ended today (to be fair, a lot of people did, lol sleep deprivation).
Never fear though, I've got THREE more conferences this year! So I'm sure you'll hear a lot more about my silly MUN experiences. Going to bed now... maybe.
xoxox Nora
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Scary Job Interview
So I know it's been awhile... I had to go up to lovely Wisconsin for a bit of a job interview. I think it went well? Honestly I have no clue, which is a bit scary because now my future is in their hands. I was on site at the interview for pretty much an entire workday, which was incredibly draining, and I left looking a disaster.
I'm up for three different positions, which I guess is a good thing? Not really sure... For each position I met with someone from that area of the place, had the opportunity to hear more about the position and ask questions, and then after I met with a different person to do the interview for the position. So that's three interviews... then I had a general interview with HR, had to do a presentation, and take some assesments. Just the typical, prove that I'm amazing sort of thing.
The presentation I did, which is pretty standard, was probably the highlight of the day. I had to do a 20-minutes session on anything I wanted... so of course I did Model UN stuff, my fave fruits and vegetables simulation! I think the people watching it had fun, though it is a bit juvenile. I sort of had to just go with it. Whatever.
I should hear back pretty soon, either way, which is nice. I don't want to wait much longer than that. And I've got a busy weekend, so all job searching is now on the back burner... ugh.
So fingers crossed yeah?
xoxox Nora
I'm up for three different positions, which I guess is a good thing? Not really sure... For each position I met with someone from that area of the place, had the opportunity to hear more about the position and ask questions, and then after I met with a different person to do the interview for the position. So that's three interviews... then I had a general interview with HR, had to do a presentation, and take some assesments. Just the typical, prove that I'm amazing sort of thing.
The presentation I did, which is pretty standard, was probably the highlight of the day. I had to do a 20-minutes session on anything I wanted... so of course I did Model UN stuff, my fave fruits and vegetables simulation! I think the people watching it had fun, though it is a bit juvenile. I sort of had to just go with it. Whatever.
I should hear back pretty soon, either way, which is nice. I don't want to wait much longer than that. And I've got a busy weekend, so all job searching is now on the back burner... ugh.
So fingers crossed yeah?
xoxox Nora
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