Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” featuring Kimbra was released July 5, 2011.
WHOAAAAAA
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Infographic: What Kind of Geek Are You
We have officially reached a time when the geek culture has been deemed acceptable in our society. Yes. I think I’ve always been a part of the small percentage that thought geeks were cool, but it was mostly because I could never understand why they weren’t. Steve Urkel, was annoying, sure. Some may call him a little bit clumsy, but have you ever come across someone with a sense of humor like his? Minkus was somewhat of a know-it-all, but he had good intentions. After all, he loved Topanga. It didn’t matter that she was never going to share the same interest in him in the end, but that never stopped him regardless.
Geeks rule. Enough said.
I’m a pop culture geek; which one are you?
Check out the full infographic by Bestcollegesonline.org via Flavorwire
Oh It Feels Good To Be Back…
Despite being gone from Yow Yow! for an entire week, the blog has still been receiving its typical number for visitors! Thanks for sticking around y’all!
With graduation just around the corner, life has picked up a bit. I’ve been tying up some loose ends and spending time with some dear friends and family. I know that, however, Yow Yow is always going to be here. I may not have had the chance to post daily for awhile now, but the pressure of keeping up with every day news just got to be a little bit too tough for me. Will that change when I am a working girl? We shall see.
So it’s been a crazy whirlwind of a past two weeks.
- I planned a music festival! Well, actually, I’ve been planning it for a whole year with my co-chairs, but I finally got to see it come to life and it was by far, the coolest thing I have ever done.
- I returned to a community and said my parting goodbyes along with the rest of the seniors in my class.
- I ate and didn’t eat a lot simultaneously.
- I didn’t sleep very much.
- School was kind of on the back burner.
- I became a “downtown” kind of a girl.
- “Call Me Maybe” became a little bit more permanent
But most importantly, in the last two weeks (probably in the last month since I said this not too long ago,) I have laughed and smiled more than I ever have in my years here at Seattle University. It is such a joy being a senior, but my time here would not be worth anything if not for those around me and in my life.
You guys, my last week of college is next week. I’m not even going to try to wrap my head around that right now at 10 PM.
We like to eat at small burger drive-ins.
We spend our mornings and afternoons chalking our Quad for our biggest event of the year.
Mayer Hawthorne made all of my dreams come true.
My girl, Euna Kho, killed it w/ her set.
photo cred: Christopher Joseph Taylor
photo cred: Christopher Joseph Taylor
photo cred: Christopher Joseph Taylor
And a little senior soiree action with my favorite junior Steph!
Happy Mother’s Day!
It is a beautiful day in Seattle today and nothing could make my sweet little mother more happy! I hope all of you are having a lovely time with your mothers and enjoying their special day.
And for you: a compilation of advice from the best TV moms ever courtesy of Flavorwire.
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Social Media Strategies
For my senior project, I am currently researching social media plans for non-profits and managed to stumble upon this little gem here. Click here for the full story.
The Commencement Speech That Wasn’t
I don’t like to typically talk about things unless they are for sure happening, but this is for sure NOT happening anymore – therefore – I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t post this.
A few weeks back, the leadership department at Seattle University was searching for commencement speakers for this year’s graduation ceremony and I figured I had a few things I could say. I turned in my application and my speech and became a finalist. I had my audition last week, but I had this sinking feeling that the role just wasn’t going to go to me. We’ve all had that feeling, right? The girl before me made everyone in the room laugh a lot harder than I did. Oh well.
Below is my speech though and even though I was not selected, it is still a piece that I am proud of.
Thank you to Seattle University for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the students. It is an honor to be standing in front of you all today – students, family, friends, faculty and staff, and the Seattle University community.
Four years ago, we sat in a set up similar to this one. We made jokes in our seats, reminisced with our friends, and dreaded the ceremony that we thought would drag on forever as every one of our peer’s names were called. Secretly, you loved every minute of it. Today, you might be in your seats doing the exact same thing and feeling the same way as you did four years ago or you might just be Facebooking and tweeting from your phone.
Welcome to Seattle
Last week, Seattle University students introduced me to a new Tumblr called “Welcome to Seattle” that is filled with all of our own personal jokes about how things really are in the city…It was a nice time waster for a day.
Where we say we are green, but if you ask us to walk, we’re all like
Where 55 degree is shorts and T-shirts weather
For more funny, visit the website here.
In the News…
Unfortunately, I’m a little behind on my news having not blogged consistently for the past couple of weeks, but this is the best I could do!
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Fashion
- Designer Tracy Feith will design for TOMS Shoes. The designer was known for his highly successful collection for Target. [Source]
- Vogue has announced that they will no longer be working with models under the age of 16 or models who look unhealthy. [Source]
- Justin Timberlake is still not returning to music because he’s too busy working on a design line for HomeMint. [Source]
Music
- The Wanted’s latest track, “Chasing the Sun” will be used as the title track for Ice Age 4: Continental Drift. [Source]
- Earlier this week, a first-grader was suspended for singing the line “I’m sexy and I know it” from LMFAO’s latest song. [Source]
Television
- Teen Wolf Season 2. It’s almost here. [Source]
- Will Jeopardy host, Alex Trabek, leave the show? I sure hope not. [Source]
- Britney Spears and Demi Lovato have joined The X Factor. [Source]
- The Jonas Brothers are getting a reality show on E! y’all! [Source]
Movies
- Twilight’s Kellan Lutz has just signed on to play Tarzan in the new animated film. [Source]
- And yet another trailer for The Amazing Spider Man.
- Outkast’s Andre 3000 will begin shooting for the Jimi Hendrix biopic next month. [Source]
Seattle
- The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) lineup is up! [Source]
- A new Seattle spot is opening up and it is dedicated to one of my favorite desserts – the Molten Chocolate Cake. Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery will open up later on this month. [Source]
Other
- Demi Moore has officially changed her Twitter handle. [Source]
- Jessica Simpson finally gave birth to a baby girl named Maxwell Drew Johnson.
- RIP to the Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Youch. He passed away Friday at age 47 after battling cancer for two years.
- Kings of Leon’s Jared Followill has proposed to model Martha Patterson. The two have been dating for only a few months. [Source]
- SNL’s Taran Killam and HIMYM’s Cobie Smulders will marry this September. [Source]
{Guest Post} By Ben Neal
As Free As My Hair: My college experience and personal formation as told through my hair.
Hello! My name is Ben and I have known the beautiful Katie since freshman year. So when I received a message from her asking if I wanted to write a blog my instant reaction was HELL YEAH. Since I am senior this year at SU with Katie and I have an abnormal love for reminiscing, I kept coming back to the idea of reflecting on my college experience and the many transitions I have gone through. Now you may be thinking that relating this to my hair is super dumb or really vain but I think hair can liberating and has allowed me to externalize emotions or internal feelings about my life at the point. Through this post, I hope you get to know something about who I am and how, at some level, I have let my hair reflect where I am at in my life.
The starting point: High school
When I got to high school, I had grown my hair out and it is what we now call “the swoop.” I had the original Justin Beiber haircut and will probably have neck problems later in my life for flipping my hair so much. People knew me by my hair and people liked it. Above all though, I liked it. But I think at the core of who I was at that point was trying to “fit in”. Even though I had so much fun in high school, I definitely was trying to just fit in. Not make any waves. Just get by. The swoop was safe (and warm since I have really thick hair). I had the swoop for most of high school and any haircut I got was either a variation of the swoop or ended up returning to what the swoop originally was.
Picture 1. The “swoop.” And yes. I am wearing a Panic! At the Disco shirt.
In Things That Were Passed Around on Facebook Last Night…
Oh Seattle…you crazy.
My Worst Beauty Blunder
I am slightly embarrassed about the story I am about to share with you all, but at the same time – I think it just needs to be said. This could happen to anyone, or so I’d like to hopefully believe.
A few weeks ago, Ashley and I were downtown shopping and when we stopped into Sephora, I couldn’t resist. I didn’t exactly need a new eyeliner pencil sharpener, but it was purple and black so I had to have it. I could have continued washing my foundation brush with just water and soap, but this one was anti-bacterial! I made the purchases and they stayed in my Sephora for weeks until last night.
As I stayed in for the night and glanced over at my Chanel foundation brush, I thought that it could use a good clean. I whipped out the anti-bacterial shampoo from Sephora and analyzed the bottle. There was a “Try Me” sticker on it. Why would my bottle have this sticker unless it was a sample. Oh…light bulb! So this is the point where we come to a crossroads. Do we decide to throw it out completely or go ahead and use it anyways. No one is going to bring their brushes in and use this sample to clean it are they? I could tell my bottle had been used so yes, it looks like someone has done that already. Then again, there is some distance between putting the bottle directly onto the brush, but that is something I would have done too…
I wasn’t going to win this. I went ahead and did it and while this is completely gross and you’re probably wondering what could ever make me do such a thing, I urge you to ask yourself how a Sephora sales associate could ever think that it would be okay to sell me a sample product. That is not okay, therefore, I am worse off because of this decision.
{Guest Post} By Ashley de Leon
A Letter to my Soon-To-Be College Graduate Self:
Congratulations, you are almost done! I know it’s a couple months away, but you do have every reason to celebrate. You will be able to do senior streak and you will have the time of your life. You’ll have so much fun that you will spend half of the day passed out, you may or may not puke in the library and you’ll spend the next couple of days trying to figure out how to get the blue paint out of the bathtub, the bed sheets, and the shoes. You will also realize that Crayola is not all that washable. But here’s the kicker- you’ll actually make it to your final, and your professor will be kind enough to pass you.
I know the future may seem like a blurred-dark-abandoned-hell-of-a-rabbit hole and every time someone asks you, “What are your plans after you graduate?” you want to cry, scream and even punch the person in the nose. But here’s one thing I want you to know – come graduation day you will forget all about the stress and live in the moment. You’ll spend the day smiling until your face hurts; you’ll stand on your chair and fist pump; you’ll see a big giant poster of your face- of course it’s the one picture of yourself that you absolutely hate – and your crazy family will be behind it waving and laughing; except grandma, she’s tired.
Thought Catalog Roundup
- Texting Your Way To Date #2
- The Friends I Lost But Still Have To See On Facebook
- What Kind Of Single Person Are You
- 5 Things You Shouldn’t Do Before Starting A New Job
- An Open Letter To The Friend Who Fell Off The Planet
- Forget “No Regrets,” How About “Some Regrets”
- 12 Tips For Working In Retail Without Killing Everyone Around You
- 5 Truths No One Likes To Hear
- How To Be A Better Guest
- How To Meet The Love Of Your Life
- 19 Tips For Females in 2012
Not High School Musical
“You’re a little bigger than most of the girls I’ve done this to.”
– Zac Efron, to the “Guillermo” stand-in he had to undress in a bra-unhooking contest, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
oh stop it Zac Efron…
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