These are a few of my favorite things...

So finally-whew its been a loooong two years!  Finally I have finished my classes for my M.A. although I still have to take exams in the winter.  But now it is summer and finally I am taking a small break-only to return to school work.  But in the past couple of days I have been able to experience the summer and it has helped me remember to experience life a bit.  So I have made a list of some of my favorite things.

10.) 30 rock.  I love this show.  I am Liz Lemmon as embarassing as that may be.  And all of the talk about whether or not she is a feminist and whether or not the show is a feminist show or not really bothers me.  Are we still so narrow minded that we can only view feminism in a really specific way?  That bothers me.  Yes Jack comes in to fix things a lot, unfortunately he is the boss and sometimes that's what bosses do-fix problems.  But Liz is still working on finding herself as a head writer for the show that she doesn't always know how to fix everything.  I get the criticism, but lets give props to Tina Fey for creating a really effing funny show that deals with race, class, gender, and sexuality.  It's not perfect-few things are, let's take a gem when it comes along.

9.) New Moon on CD.  I have been listening to it and I like it a lot.  I am obviously a bit far behind in the whole saga reading thing but it always takes me awhile to jump onto a pop culture phenomenon.  It is a much better book/story than Twilight.  Twilight is basically, in my mind, like When God Writes Your Love Story with Vampires.  The second book goes much more in depth into the story adds new characters and the whole *spoiler alert* werewolf thing. I love Jacob.  I want him to win out in the end but I know that won't happen.  Even though Bella is still the lamest female character ever, the story is interesting.  For an awesome female lead read His Dark Materials-much better.  But I think New Moon gonna make a neat movie.

8.) Grilling.  I eat meat now and it's good!  I love eating grilled meat and eating outside although it is quite cold these days.  Cooking outside is so awesome-I forgot its pleasure since I finally own my first grill.  Plus with grilling comes all sorts of vegetables and fruit (farmer's market what what) in order to make beautiful and colorful meals.

7.) Running/Waking with my dog.  This is funny because it isn't me running and walking the dog, it is more the fact that I run and she looks at me like OMG you are going so slow while she is walking beside me.  It is really funny!

6.) Sun Salutation-I love yoga in general but upon waking doing a few sun salutations to welcome the day is really nice and peaceful.  It allows me to go through my day remembering how great the morning was!

5.) Working at preschool.  The kids can go outside!

4.) Season Four of Weeds.  This show is so ridiculous as per usual-so campy and trampy.  But so far I am loving season four.  Oh if the L Word writer/s could only have done as good of a job-then it would've been AmAzing.  I love the cliffhangers at the end of every episode, it makes me really glad to own the entire season so I can just watch.

3.) Reading for pleasure.  I almost forgot how to do it.  I wanna read Harry Potter with a pen in hand and I have to remind myself not to worry about it.  I also read everything in the voice of the character-thus, it takes me forever to read the parts by Dumbledore.

2.) Blogging.  Funny story huh?

1.) Just Be-Ing.  I am practicing the art of doing nothing.  This may seem idle and selfish, but I feel like we have to take care of ourselves to take care of the world.  We have to breathe, to stop for a moment and realize that we are in a moment, a moment loaded with power, privilege, marginalization, and oppression, but then just Be.  Not all the time, but on occasion.