I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Got The Hunger? (Apr 10)

  • Found out that the meat that my favorite Street Meat Guy sells is actually chicken hearts! AHH! Smh, only in Korea. I will [probably] keep eating them though. Apparently, they are good for you. And they're yummy.


  • I finally got to see Hunger Games! And I didn’t have to wait as long (only 3 weeks) or go as far (15 minute bus ride!) as I thought I’d have to. Woohoo! Oh, it was good :) Here are my thoughts (I don’t think they will give any of the movie away):
    • It was a really good portrayal of the actual Hunger Games and the world of Panem. The costumes/make-up/hair were amazing (the Capitol clothing actually reminded me a LOT of the people of Oz, in Wicked), the buildings/atmosphere of both the Capitol and District 12 were just like I imagined and the people that were selected to play the characters were great actors and acted/looked as I expected (none of this “Rue was black so her death was less sad” business). However, it did fail – as I think most book-to-movie-productions do – to convey the depth of emotion felt by the characters throughout the story and to fully inform the audience of the history of Panem and the gravity of the Hunger Games situation. I don’t think that’s a bad thing though. The best things about books-to-movies are they give readers a more tangible world to imagine as they read and they get people who wouldn’t necessarily read those books more of a reason to. This movie definitely did both of those. Sai and I just had to explain a lot of things to Abby, Ashley and Jeannie afterwards :)
    • The COOLEST (and most ironic) part about Hunger Games being a movie though, is that the people who see it who haven’t read the books literally become the citizens of Panem, watching the Hunger Games as the Gamemakers want them to see it, in a public venue. Whaaaaat. I mean, there are some parts that were in the movie that citizens wouldn’t see, but overall...woah. I wonder if the possibility of her books becoming movies influenced any of what Suzanne Collins wrote.
    • Also, I thought it was really weird that no one in the Capitol was dressed in green, and I don’t believe that that was an accident – so I’m really curious why the costumer/director/producer/Suzanne Collins chose to do that.
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  1. CarleeApril 12, 2012 at 9:53 PM

    Even though they are chicken hears, what is the alternative for their use once the chicken is dead? We eat a lot of chicken breasts here... what happens to the heart? Guess we are just spoiled with our selectivity of what part of the chicken we eat.

    If it is good, then why not eat it, and feel like you are helping to eliminate waste?

    PS- I'm glad I never asked exactly what part of the animal it was that I was eating in Senegal... this is a weird conundrum. :)

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    1. EmilyApril 13, 2012 at 2:11 AM

      Knowing what it is definitely changes how I think of it though, I can't help it. Which is why my philosophy is to generally not ask what food is if it's unfamiliar. I will keep eating them, because they are good :)

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