You’re All I Need to Get By – Marvin Gaye

This is what happens when you are experiencing exhaustion and insomnia at the same time.

1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. The Name of the song is your answer!
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 15 friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got this from.

1.IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Fall Line – Jack Johnson

2.WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – Mazurka Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

3.WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Look Over Yonder – Jimi Hendrix

4.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
When Love Comes To Town – U2

5.WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Fingertips - Poe

6.WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Glass and the Ghost Children – Smashing Pumpkins

7.WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
The Fifth Article of Faith – Primary Songs Children’s Songbook

8.WHAT IS 2+2?
Haydn’s Symphony No 99 in E Flat Major Adagio

9.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Everyday is a Winding Road – Sheryl Crow

10.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Todo Es Como Tu – Rebelion Andina

11.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
The Books in the Old Testament – Primary Songs Children’s Songbook

12.WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
I Can’t Stand It No More – Peter Frampton

13.WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Beyond the Horizon – Bob Dylan

14.WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Ridiculous Thoughts – The Cranberries

15.WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Pass the Dutchie – Musical Youth (Wedding Singer Soundtrack)

16.WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
New Kid in Town – The Eagles

17.WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Black – Pete Yorn

18.WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
What’s On My Mind - Kansas

19.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Refuge - Matisyahu

20.WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Candy Everybody Wants – 10,000 Maniacs

21.HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Memories of Old Santa Fe – Randy Travis

22.WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
What’s Left – Libbie Linton

23.WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
But I Might Die Tonight – Cat Stevens

24.WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Secret Vows - Yanni

25.WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan

26.WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
All Roads to the River – Kathy Mattea

27.DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
I Want You – Marvin Gaye

28.IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Singing at the Party – Jack Black (from Nacho Libre)

29.WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
I Wish It Would Rain – The Temptations

30.WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
You’re All I Need to Get By – Marvin Gaye

what I gained from Dr. Seipel's social welfare policy class...

Woman A -- husband runs out on her. She ends up on Welfare.
Woman B -- husband dies. She ends up on Social Security.

The woman on welfare faces horrible stigma and unnecessary baggage (using food stamps to shop, seen as a "welfare queen," having kids so she can get more money, etc. etc...) versus the woman on social security (survivalist benefit, everyone helps her, admires her for her strength, etc. etc.).

Therefore it is better if your husband dies on you versus running out.

So...the MORAL of the STORY for all you women out there is:

"If you are a woman, don't let your husband get away...
kill him before he goes!"

human trafficking – ignorance is NOT bliss

This semester I had the amazing opportunity of taking a class entitled “Global Issues of Children at Risk” from Dr. Jini Roby. If I could make one class required for every student on every university campus in the world it would be this one. (And if every one of those classes could be taught by Dr. Roby, even better!) Dr. Roby's knowledge base is incredible...it includes child welfare, adoption policy and practice, orphan care, human trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of children, child soldiers and refugees. One thing that I've come to a greater understanding of (among all of the horrible injustices that are taking place among innocent children in our world, and in our own society, today) is the issue of human trafficking and child sex tourism.

Through the course of this semester, I've gained an increasing desire to do something about it, to figure out my part in all of this. But I've often wondered HOW. I realize that I know so little regarding this subject, compared to someone like Dr. Roby. However, I think that the first thing I have the capacity of doing is letting others know WHAT human trafficking is...sharing what I have learned. I interact with educated individuals everyday -- family members, close friends, neighbors, even strangers. If I had a second wish in regards to this topic, it would be that more of these educated individuals knew WHAT human trafficking was and had some comprehension as to how bad and how prevalent it is in their own United States as well as in the global community.

I was in the same position as many of these educated individuals before taking this class. I would not have been able to adequately describe what human trafficking entailed and how bad it is today. I wouldn't have been able to tell you that an estimated 1.2 million women and girls enter the global commercial sex market every year through human trafficking (with 35% estimated to be under the age of 18). I wouldn't have been able to tell you that $34 billion is spent on human trafficking every year and that it's the third most serious illegal trade after drugs and weapons. I wouldn't have been able to tell you that an estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the United States every year. I wouldn't have been able to tell you that the number of U.S. citizens trafficked WITHIN the country each year is even higher, with an estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry. And the thing is...I'm still learning. And my desire to help others understand is still growing.

I was sitting in my living room, finishing a paper for Dr. Roby’s class, when some neighbors came by. After asking me what I was studying for, and after telling them, they proceeded to ask me questions…like what kinds of issues we studied in this class, etc. When I mentioned “human trafficking” both of these individuals looked at me like “huh?” The dialogue:

neighbor: what is human trafficking?
me: individuals are sold into slavery. modern day slavery.
neighbor: they’re sold?
me: Yes.
neighbor: to do what?
me: to do whatever the traffickers want them to – sex slaves, labor slaves, whatever it may be.
neighbor: hmm. I’ve never heard of that before.
me: you should Google "human trafficking" sometime
neighbor: it sounds depressing
me: well, yeah, it's extremely depressing. but you can choose to ignore it and it won't be depressing and nothing gets done. or, you can choose to acknowledge it and realize how horrible it is, and do something about it...in whatever way that may be.

I realize that we often choose to not educate ourselves on issues like these because they ARE depressing. They do hurt. They are sad. But, where does that get us? I'm afraid it doesn't get us anywhere.

"Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness."

~Ingrid Holtby

check out some some links...I know we are all afraid of our potential and what we can do to help with big issues like these, but the first thing we can do is educate ourselves and then let the opportunities take us from there.

FACTS ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
HUMAN TRAFFICKING.ORG
CHILD SEX TOURISM

it's monday and i'm thankful....with pictures to prove it :)

I'm thankful for the beautiful mountains I get to see every day walking to campus...the same mountains that my Grandpa Brown told my mom to look at when she walked to campus 25 years ago...and the same mountains that Grandpa Brown loved so much.

I'm thankful for the beautiful colors that are still on the trees December 1st!

I'm thankful for my little sister who loves me and meets me for lunch every so often (Peeper, I love you for more than those lunches....you have no need to fret!)

I'm thankful for Dining Plus that gets shared with me when there is an abundance of funds on a little sister's account :)

I'm thankful for the leftover turkey and provolone croissant sandwich from the aforementioned lunch with said Dining Plus card and cute little sister that will sustain me as I make myself comfortable in the library until midnight!


I am THANKFUL :)