How to Save a Life

I found this today and I don't know why but I really feel the need to help in some way.  This is really the only way I can help, so please read this and spread the word.  I don't know this man at all, but I do know what it's like to lose someone to cancer.  I lost my grandpa to stomach cancer when I was in 8th grade and my "aunt" (a close family friend) to cancer when I was in high school.  If I can help save people the pain of losing a loved one, I am going to do anything and everything in my power to make that possible.

If you don't want to click the link and read about it, I'll just tell you here.  The man is an acute leukemia sufferer.  That means he has cancer.  He has less than 20 days to find a bone marrow match.  For the majority of the population, there is an 80% chance of finding a match.  But since Amit Gupta is of South Asian descent, his chances drop to 1 in 20,000.  All it takes to see if a person is a match is a swab of saliva.  It is virtually painless and only takes about 10 minutes to fill out paperwork and take the swab.  You can take 10 minutes out of your day to possibly save a life, can't you? To find a swab drive in your area, click here.  And make sure you spread the word to everyone you know.  1 in 20,000 may seem like terrible odds, but with the internet and social networking, it's so easy to reach 20,000 people.  So please, don't just ignore this message.

You can help as easily as making this your Facebook status:

Don't let this man's family and friends go through the pain of losing someone to cancer. He has less than 20 days to find a match for a bone marrow transplant and, being South Asian, his chances are 1 in 20,000.
http://www.amitguptaneedsyou.com/

Happy 20th Follower to Me

You guys, I did it! I got 20 followers by my 20th birthday! Everybody please give a warm welcome to follower #20, Tiffany from Omg Wtf?!  Her blog is hilarious, so if you're in need of a good laugh, I would direct you there, unless you tend to be shocked and appalled by big kid words.  Her blog comes with a parental advisory.  But if you're willing to put on your big kid pants and realize they're just words, head on over there and take a read, then follow.

Hi there, Tiffany.  Thanks for following my blog.  I really appreciate it.  I apologize since you came at sort of a weird time when I'm depressed.  But hopefully soon, I'll be back to my old self.  For some reason, your RSS feed isn't updating in my blogroll : (  Things you should know about this blog are that I write about just about anything that crosses my mind ever.  Sometimes I vent here and probably nobody really reads those posts, but it's mostly for my own benefit.  I like sentence fragments.  More people get here by googling some sort of search query involving pandas than anything else.  I'm a college dropout who is currently on food stamps, but that's not what defines me.  I'm a huge nerd and I just got into Doctor Who.  I love to watch movies and often review them on here.  I am also sort of a fashionaholic, which consists a lot more of looking at it online and not being able to afford it than anything else.  I am going to be a graphic designer.  So that's pretty much everything you need to know about me.  If you get lost or confused, talk to Lauren or The Tsaritsa.  They've been here the longest and they've helped me get through some tough times.  Enjoy your stay and thanks for flying Air Jedi, or something like that.

Why Does the Universe Hate Me?!

As you know, I've been in a mood of general gloom lately.  Well, one of the things I've been doing that helps cheer me up a little bit is drinking hot cocoa.  I just boiled some water and made hot cocoa from a packet.  (Now this is hot cocoa packets that I had leftover from last year, but they were completely sealed and I've already used two of them. Shudder.) I noticed what looked like a grain of rice on top of my cocoa after pouring it in.  Upon closer inspection, I spotted a few more.  Even closer inspection revealed that it was not rice, but maggots.  I'm glad I noticed before I took a drink.  I dumped out the whole mug and threw away the rest of the packets.  So now I am still depressed and cocoaless as well, also fighting back nausea caused by there being freaking maggots in my hot chocolate!  I have reached the conclusion that it is time to go back on Prozac, which I haven't taken for about 5 months now.  Depression sucks.

Guilty Pleasures and Hulu

I'm trying not to be absent from my blog for very long, so I'm trying to write short posts, even when I don't really have anything to say.  So today, I'm sharing with you all the shows that I receive in my Hulu queue.  Some of these are shows that I would consider guilty pleasures, because I wouldn't want to admit that I kind of love them, but I really do enjoy watching them.

So, in no particular order, the shows that grace my Hulu queue are: Pretty Little Liars (guilty pleasure), How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, Raising Hope, The Middle, America's Got Talent, The Office, Switched at Birth (guilty pleasure),  Misfits (guilty pleasure; it's British and completely ridiculous and I love it), The Nine Lives of Chloe King (guilty pleasure), The Booth at the End, Whites, Friends with Benefits, The Lying Game (guilty pleasure), New Girl, Once Upon a Time, Grimm, Suburgatory, Alphas, and Whitney.

The ones that I dearly love to pieces and would highly recommend to anyone who is willing to listen are: Raising Hope, Suburgatory, Whitney, and New Girl.

Raising Hope is going on its second season.  It's about a guy having unprotected sex with a girl who he doesn't know is a serial killer and getting her pregnant.  Then she gets the electric chair and he's left raising the baby.  It sounds weird, but give it a shot.  Suburgatory is sort of a guilty pleasure.  It's about a girl with a single dad being moved to the suburbs after her dad discovers a box of condoms in her drawer.  The show is about her battles to maintain her sanity in suburbia while trying to spread a little originality and common sense.  Needless to say, it's not going too well for her.  Whitney Cummings is my new favorite comedian, and each episode of Whitney is based on one of her jokes and they're all completely hilarious.  It may take a bit of getting used to it being taped in front of a live studio audience, but it's well worth it if you need a few laughs.  New Girl is about a girl finding a place to live on Craigslist, then finding out all her roommates are guys, and moving in anyway.  The girl is played by Zooey Deschanel, my favorite actress, and she does a great job of convincing us that she's a complete dork, even though we all know otherwise.  The guys try to mold her into a respectable and date-able lady, but they have their work cut out for them.

So if you have some free time and want to watch a good tv show while curled up with a mug of hot chocolate, I would recommend those four.  What are some of your guilty pleasure shows?