procrastinating instead of doing my take-home final

- i have recently acquired an unhealthy obsession with the trailer for "sin city." even though it seems crazy-violent, and not really my type of movie, the look of it is so cool, and i can't wait for it to come out.

- yesterday, when i was dying hair at mer's apartment and baking cookies, blake said that i would make a really good mom. i hope so, but not for at least another ten years. later, i realized that multiple girls have told me that if they broke up with their boyfriends, they would want me to marry their exes. i think that's a compliment. i guess all this means that i'm the marrying kind, but that doesn't really help me now, when i just want to date people. i know that it's a little late in the game to date in college, since i'll be out of here in no time, but it's just kind of sad that i've gone this long with minimal relationship experience.

- in our sconce class the other day, he asked, "who in here wants to be famous?" basically everyone raised their hand. i raised mine halfway. here's why... in our book on celebrity, the author differentiates between "fame" and "renown." when someone is renowned, they stand out in a localized group by virtue of their talents, personality, looks, etc.. renown depends on a person having direct contact with the rest of the group. with fame, however, there is really no face-to-face contact between the celebrity and the audience, and the audience has no sense of the celeb's real self. they're just shown a pre-packaged image of that celebrity and told by the media to worship it as an icon. i'd rather be renowned, it's much more personal. instead of being famous for no reason, i want people to meet me, and decide on their own that i'm worth a damn :) one jeff sconce or laura edelbrock is worth a million paris hiltons.