A twenty-something Hawaii transplant living it up on the East Coast for the past 10 years (Boston and Stamford, CT). This blog is to document my daily adventures and things that I find cool, uncool, hilarious, awe-inspiring, and annoying. Please feel free to email me at hawaiigurlinct@gmail.com.
February 1, 2012
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New-new job is the most conservative of any of my employers. As in goodbye open-toed shoes and skirts without stockings, I hardly knew thee type of conservative.
Yet they seem to find any excuse in the world to proclaim it a ‘jeans’ day. Like because it’s the last two weeks of the year. Or it’s a Friday. Or it’s the summer. Or our day includes 3 hours of continuing ed classes. Or because some people were doing community service (yet we all got to wear jeans). Or because it’s the day before and after Superbowl Sunday. I’m loving it!
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Puck killed it last night on Glee
“Clearly once a Warbler, always a Warbler… You’re like a modern day eggs benedict.”*
“This is what we call taking the high road… which I was shocked to find out has nothing to do with marijuana.”
*True story: when I was a little kid I always remembered Benedict Arnold’s name because it was the same as my favorite breakfast.
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"We think of homeschoolers as evangelicals or off-the-gridders who spend a lot of time at kitchen tables in the countryside. And it’s true that most homeschooling parents do so for moral or religious reasons. But education observers believe that is changing. You only have to go to a downtown Starbucks or art museum in the middle of a weekday to see that a once-unconventional choice “has become newly fashionable,” says Mitchell Stevens, a Stanford professor who wrote Kingdom of Children, a history of homeschooling. There are an estimated 300,000 homeschooled children in America’s cities, many of them children of secular, highly educated professionals who always figured they’d send their kids to school—until they came to think, Hey, maybe we could do better. When Laurie Block Spigel, a homeschooling consultant, pulled her kids out of school in New York in the mid-1990s, “I had some of my closest friends and relatives telling me I was ruining my children’s lives.” Now, she says, “the parents that I meet aren’t afraid to talk about it. They’re doing this proudly."
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Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education - The Daily Beast (via apsies)
Little known fact (on the bloggy-blog): my sister was homeschooled from the 6th grade on up.
In the second grade she was diagnosed with ADHD. Now I know several people “diagnosed” with this. They got unlimited time on their SATs, had open book exams throughout high school and with their high GPAs garnered from such indulgences, they went on to some of the most prestigious colleges in the country. Nice. My sister’s path wasn’t quite as luxurious.
In my sister’s case, the elementary school felt she would be better off in a “special needs” school since their plan of keeping her in during recess to catch up on all the subjects she wasn’t learning just wasn’t cutting it. So she went to one of the only schools in Hawaii that specialized in teaching kids with severe ADHD. It didn’t help. By the 6th grade she could barely read a picture book for 5-year-olds.
So my mom did a lot of research and my parents had a lot of conversations and before I knew it - my family became “homeschoolers.”
Now although I have (for the most part) nothing but good things to say about my high school - my best field trip was to a nature conservatory to learn about plants for biology class. My sister’s best field trip was walking the path of the ride of Paul Revere when they flew to Boston to visit yours truly. Winning! Although my mom clearly didn’t know what she was teaching, as my sister never learned about the (Sarah Palin) bells.
And in the end, my sister graduated (i.e. got her GED - eat your heart out Amber)
half a semester earlier than her old class did and we now currently give each other book recommendations.
(via apsies)
January 31, 2012
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Really Tumblr? I currently have about 2 hours each day where I can be on Tumblr and this is what you do to me. Grrr.
January 26, 2012
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The 11 Toughest Reservations In The World.
1) Noma (Copenhagen)
2) Sukiyabashi Jiro (Tokyo)
3) Next (Chicago) !!!
4) Tickets (Barcelona)
5) Quintessence (Tokyo)
6) The Fat Duck (Bray)
7) Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare (Brooklyn)
8) minibar by josé andrés (Washington DC)
9) Schwa (Chicago)
10) The French Laundry (Yountville)
11) Yam’Tcha (Paris)Challenge Accepted!
[Source: Eater | Via: Profashional]
Really not good that a big component of my summer vacation plans is contingent on getting reservations at #10. Also, there’s only been one restaurant that I’ve tried my hardest but was never able to get a reservations at. That would be Minibar by my man José Andrés. The fact that I’ve only been shut out of one restaurant before may have something to do with the fact that I haven’t yet tried the other 10 on this list. Something to aspire to!
January 25, 2012
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(by w e n d y)
I usually eat broccoli doused in cheese, but this isn’t a bad replacement.
January 24, 2012
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You know what I think is really weird? The idea of grabbing your phone after popping out a baby (or watching your baby mama do it), clicking on the Facebook app and updating your status.
Yet it’s what I absolutely expect from every friend I have. I’ve been stalking my friend’s page hourly for the last couple of days waiting for a new message.
Now you may be saying, if they are your friend and you are that impatient why not just call them? Well I did just that the last time a friend of mine was past due. She picked up the phone all calm and sweet but apologized that she had to go because she was in the midst of a contraction and needed to concentrate (clearly a vote for getting the drugs). I was the one screaming. So now I wait for the Facebook updates.
January 23, 2012
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All I can say is thank god for the iPhone!
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Dear New-new job,
Even though you’re still the best job I’ve ever had, you need to cool it with all the blocked Internet sites. I mean, I have grudgingly accepted the fact that Tumblr has been deemed an “inappropriate” and thus blocked website - but Cablevision? I only wanted to access it to set my DVR to record the shows I’m missing by being at work late.
In the words of Stephanie Tanner: How rude!
January 20, 2012
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I just don’t understand the airline industry.
Welp folks, with busy season in full swing it’s time for my annual practice of spending the couple of hours between getting home and sleeping to fantasize about post busy season vacations. Usually this fantasizing starts a little later in the year but this week I was bombarded with emails and texts about my sister’s upcoming graduation, as well as the annual in-law vacation in Vegas and my college roomie’s bachelorette party in North Carolina. So I figured it was time to get to work. Here’s what I found out:
- Flying from New York to San Francisco to Vegas to San Francisco to New York: is approximately 6,000 miles and $400. *I tried out a lot of different options but I like this one the best (Ryan does not)
- Flying from New York to North Carolina and back for the bachelorette party weekend is approximately 1,000 miles and $450.
- Flying from New York to Atlanta to North Carolina to Atlanta to New York is approximately 2,300 miles and $250.
Hmm… airlines you think your ridiculous miles to $$$ ratio is possibly why your industry is always in trouble?
Also, pretty sad that in my couple of free hours today away from accounting I’ve spent it analyzing numbers. (Said in an Ursula voice:) Pathetic.
