Randomness | Posted by Julie Z on 02/5/2010

Give It A Ponder

James Lipton wants you to ponder before you text. I wholeheartedly agree with him.

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Randomness | Posted by Julie Z on 12/25/2009

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas FBombers!

Every year my best friend and I always watch Love Actually around the holidays. If you haven’t seen it, it’s basically the perfect Christmas movie: good actors, sappy story, lots of love. There are also a couple of musical gems in there.

Olivia Olson singing All I Want for Christmas better than Mariah (in my opinion):

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Randomness | Posted by Julie Z on 12/11/2009

Happy Hanukkah

“Nefesh B’Nefesh brought over 150 participants together on Ben Yehuda Street for the first ever Jerusalem flash mob in honor of Hanukkah”

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Randomness | Posted by Julie Z on 12/6/2009

Just Got Home And…

So today I just got home from the SDLC (Student Diversity Leadership Conference)…and found out that I had about 200 comments waiting for approval, most of them coming from the post “Corduroy Skirts are a Sin.”

And all I can say is…holy crap, I love you guys so much. The debate on that post is insanely amazing and was fascinating to read. I’m glad so many people found it interesting and that people all over the world were able to hear about Chris Pesto’s amazing activism.

But I also want to say I’m really sorry that so many of you had to wait that long to have your comments approved! They’re all up there now — I was NOT trying to silence…

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Randomness | Posted by Julie Z on 11/30/2009

The SDLC Conference

So this week I’m going to be representing my school at the Student Diversity Leadership Conference in Denver, Colorado. Here’s a description of the program, in case you’re wondering:

The Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) is a multiracial, multicultural gathering of upper school student leaders (grades 9-12) from across the country that focuses on self-reflecting, forming allies, and building community. Led by a diverse team of adult and peer facilitators, participants will develop effective cross-cultural communication skills, better understand the nature and development of effective strategies for social justice, practice expression through the arts, and learn networking principles and strategies.

I applied for this for my own benefit (because it sounds pretty rad, no?) but also because I think it will help me to…

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