Potporri

• Thanks to everyone - for the pep talk after my near meltdown last weekend. I'm a bit better, I think part of why I took the baby shower so hard is because I'm desperately looking for an internship, which is like looking for a job and constant rejection is disheartening, so I was already in a bad place. Beat's me how actors do it....
• My mum is having surgery today - she fell on ice and broke a bone in her left wrist/hand area. I don't like the idea of her going under general anesthesia, but it should be ok right??? We know a family friend whose sister-in-law, in Pakistan, went under and never came out, which has since scared the bejezsus out of both my mother and me (my sister and dad, not so much). I'll keep everyone on posted.
• American Idol results last night - again proving how dumb many of the voters in America are...they kept that horrible Antonella. Lord, did they not hear her sing on Wednesday night??? It was sooo bad!
• Is it wrong of me to no longer want to communicate with a guy because I've seen his pic and well, he's not attractive at all? In my defense, I'm also turned off because of his bad English, in his e-mails. Am I committmentphobe?
• I continue to remain upset about the elitism of MBA internships...and mad at myself for not having considered this factor when applying for graduate programs.
• VCU Muslim Student Association (MSA) is having this lecture series about Islam this weekend, people talk about the Prophet (pbuh) and apply his lessons to our lives. I got the email and immediately my thought was, "what are the qualifications of the speakers?" so I wrote the MSA contact if they were professors at VCU or neighboring schools. Guess what, these are just people from the community...o...k...so than exactly what authority do they have to speak on these subjects? Have they studied them in some academic setting? Or, as I'm sure is the reality, are they just speaking from whatever they learned from their families/local mosques? These entities are all heavily influenced by their cultures, so how accurate are these men going to be in discussing these subjects (without putting their culture influence spin on it)? Am I wrong in thinking this? We are suppose to be at an insititute of higher learning, to me this goes against that idea.