Brooke Angel

Did you know??? Little known finals-week facts.

Did you know? “Finals Week” used to be national “Lounge around in cafes and bake a lot of goodies week”, until a couple of sadistic professors, bitter that they had to continue their research while students frolicked around, began to add in tests! Using the hypnotic goggles that they had developed during the finals weeks of the past, they slowly brainwashed the other professors into holding a plethora of painful and torturous exams during the students’ last week in school. Nevertheless, a few courageous students persevere through the stress and continue to experiment with new baking recipes, sometimes on a twice daily basis! Most students also observe the “lounging around in cafes” part, except most have forgotten that it was once a pleasurable, stress-free experience.

Did you know? Stress can lead to terrible breakouts, but never fear! You may have been shocked to hear that the “oil-cleansing method” can actually reduce breakouts and make skin less oily, but lo and behold, many a natural product advocate claims that it works! (Any remaining acne is due to that one slice of non-raw vegan cake that they had last Monday, blocking off their life force and leading to a negative internal energy.) However, during finals week, oil may not be enough! Rub your face down with a stick of butter! Or, if you’re vegan, use margarine! If large red welts start appearing, it just means that the toxins are being pulled out of your body!

1:23 pm • 4 May 2012 • 1 note

Part 2!

Here are some after-thoughts to my list of questions last week. I really don’t like them as much, mostly because they were overly influenced by my Buddhism class, and all random afterthoughts over the course of a few days. (Leaving a significant number out.) Present world happy things only! But oh well, you get to hear them anyways! And answer, I hope!

What do you care about most?
Who do you care about most?
Do you ever feel the need to create something? What and why?
Are you a very private person? What do you keep hidden? (I was until all of this social media silliness happened.)
Are you very critical of mainstream media (as in news)? What do you think the purpose of media should be? (I asked Jillian, my media studies roommate, this one. Loaded question apparently.)
Do you feel like you have life figured out?
Do you think fashion is worthwhile?
Do you watch TV? Do you think TV is worthwhile?
What are you excited about?
Do you like new or old music better?
What do you think of electronic music? Do you have a strong positive or negative or positive reaction towards dubstep?
Do you have any hobbies?
What is your day to day life like? Do you have a daily routine? Do you ever feel like a robot?
Do you get hung up on paradoxes?
What would you do if you woke up looking through the eyes of someone else? Someone of the opposite gender? Do you think that you would you be the same person? (And looked in a mirror.)
Have you changed substantially in the past year? The past 5 years? How?
What did you worry about in high school that you don’t worry about now?
Have you ever been a vegetarian?
What do you think about Buddhism? Do you have a strong opinion about religion?
Are you a perfectionist? If so, does it ever bother you?
Who is the happiest person you know?
What is your happiness average on a scale of 1-10? (I was talking to my friend who is in a psychology of human happiness scale. Apparently the average is a 4.5 or 5. Although I think it’s weird to measure something as relative as happiness on a solid 1-10 scale. Also is happiness for you the same as happiness for me/ can even to compare happiness from two different periods of your life? I think you adjust to a baseline, so you’d probably always define your average for any given time is a 5, no? I don’t think you can measure happiness objectively. But anyways…)
Do you like poetry? Art?
What do you think your flaws are? Do you accept them or want them to change?
Do you like feeling superior to people, or does egotism upset you?
Do you resent anyone? Why?
Do you think that your outside appearance reflects your inside state well?
Are you idealistic?
Would you ever live in a coop? What do you think about coops? (I have some strong positive and negative opinions on that one, about Berkeley coops anyways.)

1:42 pm • 28 February 2012 • 2 notes

I want to ask you a question or 80!

Inspired by this book I’m reading, and some people I’ve been hanging out with, I have some questions for anyone who feels the need to answer! Not all of them obviously. Or maybe I will end up asking these to people in real life, if the conversation so happens to head in that direction! Who knows! I hate to steer conversations. I’d rather just go along for the ride! (Unless it’s something that I find terribly boring, in which case I’d rather not.) Although I talk about myself too often. I randomly wrote these down while doing bio homework, so who knows. Answer any you find interesting! In youtube form or tumblr form or maybe REAL LIFE! Please, tell me about yourself! And pardon the various opinions I’ve inserted! I can’t help it!

Would you rather have your child be happy or wise… or do you think it’s possible to be both?
Do you ever want to have a child? Would it seem worthwhile to you? Does bringing a child into the world as it is today worry you?
What are you living for? Do you have a bigger, long term purpose or goal? Or do you have to redefine your purpose daily? Is it relaxing, if you have a more long term goal? I find that finding a daily purpose is so tiring!
Do you find it worthwhile to have “deep” thoughts? I find that when I look deep enough, there is nothing there! I can’t see myself living like this for the next 50 years or so! It’s too tiring. I wish I could just live my life! The only purpose behind any deep thoughts I might have is to amuse myself, also my mind is like a 3 year old child that won’t stop asking why!
What do you think about while walking form place to place? Or relaxing on a couch! Anytime when your mind is not fully absorbed in a task. Is there anytime that you are just thoughtless and peaceful? I have such a hard time stopping my sentence-y thoughts and staying in the moment!
Do you like people? Do you like talking to other people? I am fascinated by other people! I wish I could step into others’ shoes. I am sick of trying to pull people into my life! My thoughts get too tiring, but talking to people gets tiring as well because ultimately I can’t know who anyone is! I wish I could be absorbed into the lives of others, but most of the time, things other people do just seem unimportant to me. But if things are important to someone, then I believe that they are important!
Are you very empathetic? Do you feel empathy towards experiences very different from your own? I am only empathetic when I can relate things back to myself- I think we can only see things through our own lens. I am mildly narcissistic as well if you can’t tell from these questions, and I hate it!
What would you ask people if you could ask them anything?
Are you happy where you are? What makes you happy? Do you ever feel wanderlust, and if so, do you think that the source of it is some deep unhappiness with your current situation? I like traveling, but I tend to think of wanderlust in a sort of tumblr-girl sense, where people idealize a certain sort of image and lifestyle. No one is living the life of tumblr images. I feel like it’s who you’re with more than where you are, in the long term anyways. I need to feel rooted! Oh no, here I am talking about myself again!
What roots you down? Sometimes I feel like I’m floating! I’m very detached from the world although I wouldn’t like to be.
Are you emotional? Do you get upset for long periods of time? I am very emotional, but my emotions are so volatile! They are rooted in the outside world- I recognize that they are all in my mind so they change very quickly- happiness tied to little moments of beauty, sadness when I realize how tiring it is to constantly be seeking!
Are you a political person? What do you feel strongly about? Can you share an opinion? Can you educate me about some issue?
What is your favorite book? What is your favorite movie? What is your favorite musician?
What do you like learning about? Are you a science person? Are you an English person? Can you even classify people like that? I feel like everything is so connected- I am really fascinated by everything! I am majoring in neurobiology so I’ve mostly been taking science prereqs, but I’ve also taken classes in anthro, classics, drugs and the brain, food and the environment, Italian, and philosophy. There are so many more courses I want to take! I want to take more languages, a gender and women’s study class, several psych classes, primate anthropology (this fascinates me), and more math. I love learning about consciousness in humans and animals. There isn’t enough time here! I’m graduating too soon!
Do you like school? What classes do you want to take? I love the idea of school but sometimes hat the work! I feel like I need to take harder, less interesting/ more technical stuff while I’m here though, because I have the rest of my life to read and educate myself about easier things I’m interested in.
What do you want to be when you “grow up”? I need to keep learning! I think I’d rather take a lower paying job at a university than a higher paying job in industry.
Do you care about money? I think a comfortable living is nice!
Do you want to go on a road trip? If so, where? And with whom? Do you want to be the driver? I would love to go on a road trip just down the California coast!I would for at least part of the ride- say what you will, I love driving my prius and it plays music nicely!
Who do you want to bring on your road trip and where do you want to go? I am reading On the Road right now… why would you want to go on a road trip?
I like these more tangible topics! They make me feel excited and more rooted in the world! (not a question, oops)
Do you think of yourself as intelligent? What do you think intelligence is?
Do you like solitude? I do, sometime. I wouldn’t think of all these questions at once if I were actually talking to someone! I have lots of solitary hobbies that I enjoy, but if I’m in solitude for too long, I start to feel like I don’t exist! I need a little bit of quality social interaction every day, but I need solitude to think. (Brain <—-> Outside people! Outside world!) I think slower in social situations… sometimes I think of responses to people’s questions and stuff I want to ask them only after I leave and am alone again, hence this!
Is there any person you know who fascinates you? There use to be several people at my school that I knew very vaguely who fascinated me- most people do actually! Maybe I am just nosy. I want to know about people’s lives and what they think!
Who are you? Do you feel very attached to your body? Does the human body ever disgust you? Do you ever feel dissociated from it? (I know dissociated is the wrong word, pardon, I can’t think of the correct one right now!) I do, especially when I think that it is all just cells! Also, I feel so trapped in my head! My consciousness is stored in there, not in my foot or something. Maybe I should start doing yoga again.
Do you like to ski or snowboard? Are you a thrill seeker? Do you like adrenaline and feeling in the moment?
Do you have any siblings? Are you close with them? I have a very smart little brother. I tend to use him as a standard of “coolness” for my guy friends- if he wouldn’t like then then I probably wouldn’t be their friend!
Do you like museums? What is your favorite museum? I’ve been on a museum kick lately! I’ve recently been to MOMA SF, which I love, and BAM in Berkeley, which was cool because it was free! I’m going to go to De Young sometime soon with my friend, hopefully! I want to go to museums with people who will have fun, or else I feel guilty and don’t have a good time myself!
Do you like San Fransisco? I’m so happy to finally be taking advantage of all the wonderful things that the Bay Area has to offer! Last year I was too over whelmed by the newness of everything.
Lastly, are you happy? I think that happiness is ultimately the most important thing, so long as you aren’t contributing to the unhappiness of others! I have no right to judge what makes people happy otherwise!

4:36 pm • 20 February 2012 • 4 notes

ser-en-dip-it-yyy asked: So basically I share your problem and live off of granola and tea and coffee. And lately carrots and hummus. Oh and I miss you. The end.

I misss you toooo Fontaine!!! However I don’t at all live off granola tea and coffee. I been buying toooo much foods. Sigh. First world problems.

8:24 pm • 27 September 2011 • 1 note

orientaltiger:

Rainbow Eucalyptus, is the only species of eucalyptus that grows in the northern hemisphere and is normally grown for its pulpwood, used to create white paper. But why does it look like it’s been painted? The secret behind the Rainbow Eucalyptus is that the trees shed multiple patches of bark every year, but not at the same time. As the patches are gone, the green inner bark is exposed, and as it matures it turns bluish, then orange, purple and maroon. This creates the rainbow effect.

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3:30 pm • 13 July 2011 • 27,647 notes

ewfwefw accidentally installed a different theme and my old one went farewell. oh well. useless post of the day.

11:14 pm • 11 July 2011