moving on

Today I'm talking about ABC's Greek character Katherine. If, like me, you're a total freak of the show and you've seen the four seasons at least twice by now, you should have provably noticed this minor personage that, in my oppinion, has a lot to teach to everyone of us. And if you've never heard of the show or you did but don't like it, you're extremely likely not to understand what is going on in the next few lines. If so, I'm really really sorry for you, as you're missing one of the best teen series that has been broadcasted in the last two thousand years.

"Hi! my name is Katherine Parker, I'm former Panhellenic president of Gamma Psi Alpha. This house is specially important to me because this is where I lost my virginity. I know! it was like... two months ago! (awkward silence) So... how many of you guys lost your virginity at this house?"

As president of her sorority, chair of the panhellenic committee and always the best marks in the class, she likes to have absolutely everything under control. She's spent the last 19 years of her life caring about the future and being a responsible good girl, but now it's last year in college and she starts thinking that there's a great part of University life that she's been missing. So, with the determination and strict organization that characerizes her, she plans to do all the things the rest of the people have been doing during their three-year degree, but all in a rush. I'll never ever forget how she scheduled a time to lose her virginity to Rusty, and even came with a folder full of condoms for him to choose from. OR when she tried to seduce him only in a man's white shirt, saying she did "research" about what men found erothic. Wow.

I find this kind of attitude rather heart-touching, provably because there's a big part of Katherine into me. In fact, I'm sure every single one of us have a smaller or bigger piece of her in ourselves. It's her courage and determination to face the problems, and the fact that she isn't scared of accepting her limitations and doesn't let them make her feel less than others what I think has striked me the most. A huge applause to her.

Be my valentine

The white nails

This is so inspiring

photo by me

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, 

and so does the feeling that everything you receive in life 

is something you have earned.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is illuminated

you got us this far, now problems are:

                     
                     

I find it hard, hard to let go, and you are entitled to know
you have brought nothing else but bliss, a great deal of frustration, 
a voluntary occupation, driving me insane and off the wall

10 things I hate about you

I hate the way you talk to me and the way you cut your hair. 

I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. 

I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind. 

I hate you much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. 

I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. 

I hate when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. 

I hate it that you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. 

But mostly, I hate the way I don't hate you. 

Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

(I like how effortlessly beautiful Julia Stiles looks in here, not to mention Heath Ledger's cute casual tees and messy hair. And I like the way the whole film takes place within an atmosphere of normality, unlike the American series and movies for teens that are in fashion now, and where everyone wears exclusive-designer clothes and looks like they've just spent several hours at the hairdresser's. If you asked me to put it in a deep way, I would say that, in a plain look, what stands out is your personality, and not your level of superficiality or emptyness.)

Easy, lucky, free