Some of my friends are getting engaged these days, and I’m actually quite excited for all of them! I’m definitely a romantic, even if a serious relationship is unappealing right now.  Luckily I have a friend who knows how to keep me grounded…sort of.

O: Hey what’s up?
Me: Not much. Just watching some videos on YouTube.
O: What are you watching?
Me:…Proposals. Like marriage proposals.
O: Well that’s creepy!

In my defense I was watching that crazy Disney musical proposal (note to future fiance: this is NOT how I want to be proposed to), and then started watching proposal rejections. I realized that made me a sick person, so I had to balance that out by watching happy proposals to make myself feel normal.

Mengfei sent us this article about The Uniform Project by Sheena Matheiken, who might I add looks absolutely adorable in her photos.This quote from the article is funny:

What’s immediately striking about clicking through the day-by-day photos on the Uniform Project is that two months into wearing the same thing every day, Matheiken is still way more stylish than you are.

Matheiken is wearing a custom black dress (7 of the same dress–one for every day of the week) for a whole year. She uses vintage pieces, eBay finds and donations to help accessories the black dress. This is all to raise funds for the Akanksha Foundation, a nonprofit that supports education efforts for underprivileged children in India. A very cool idea.

I’ve been a big fan of the Fresh 365 blog ever since Kristan introduced me to it, and I really wanted to make these recipes so Eunice came over to help me. We made the pea wonton ravioli but substituted mint with italian parsley and chives. I also grated parmesan to my heart’s content–those who know me well know that I have a recent fascination with grating cheese. We also made the radish crostini. The best thing about these recipes–they’re super easy!

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My blog rounds today brought me to this great post from a female Hollywood insider discussing the subtle but definite level of sexism that she and all women in the industry face. As I read, I found myself nodding, because I think the things she says apply to more than just the movie industry.

A few highlights:

I never thought of myself as a feminist until I came to work in Hollywood. I’m part of a generation and class of women who were reared on the rhetoric that we could grow up to do anything. At no point did gender figure in as a limitation, and the idea that it would for anyone who might judge my capabilities seemed completely ludicrous.

It was confusing when I heard or read about women’s complaints of gender discrimination — didn’t we figure all this stuff out in the ‘70s?

That’s what I believed. Until I came to work in Hollywood.

Substitute your company’s name for “Hollywood”? I’m not saying this will apply everywhere, but maybe more places than we’d like to think.

I heard a male agent once say that if the heroine of a script didn’t face higher stakes, he couldn’t see how someone would emotionally invest in her. OK, so the character is never chased to the edge of a cliff or anything, but plenty of successful movies exist with mediocre stakes.

Was anyone ever truly emotionally invested in whether Owen Wilson got it together in “Wedding Crashers”?

Definitely not.

Because of mentality [sic] like this, women suffer a severe drought of entertainment that speaks to us… The majority of the representations of women in film come from the minds of male directors. What we have reflected back to us are images of women filtered through the psyches of people who admit they are unable to comprehend them.

Bold emphasis added by me, because IT IS SO TRUE. Not just in Hollywood, but in literature (the industry I aim to be a part of). And music. And television. Okay TV’s still Hollywood, but you know what I mean.

Anyway, great post. Check it out.

(Found via Amanda the Aspiring TV Writer)