This speed-reading site is crazy, yet effective!
www.spreeder.com
Here's why it works (according to the blog Legal Geekery): "Speed reading is simply disciplining yourself to NOT try to subvocalize each word. You brain is actually very capable of this once you get used to it. The problem is that on a written page, you have a second problem that you have to train your eyes to actually “scan” a word and then MOVE to the next one and (depending on the layout of the page, font size, etc.) that is also a challenge. (That’s why people who speed read with physical paper books will often move their finger quickly back and forth across the page, or use an index card and drag it down the page to reveal lines at the rate the want to read, but help keep their eyes from wandering."
Spreeder and I are gonna be tight in a few months. I can feel it.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
OMG! 2 THE MALL, PLZ!
Upon realizing that I'm going to be 20 in two days, and therefore no longer a teenager, I decided that I need to embrace this time by doing very teenager-ly things:
Crying over a boy? Check.
Writing in an online journal? Check.
Sleeping late? Check
Fantasizing about celebrity crushes? Check... Mmm, Ira Glass.
Going to the mall? pending Check.
Spending too much time on Facebook? Check
Listening to Miley Cyrus? Check.
Planning a birthday party? Check.
Unfortunately, I've also been doing very non-teenager-ly things like wearing old man boat shoes, doing sudokus/crossword puzzles, planning my post-collegiate future and paying bills. Come to think of it, I doubt it's very teenager-ly to fantasize about Ira Glass as well.
Maybe I need to go read Teen Vogue or something... before I have to switch over to TIME for the rest of my life.
4ever Urs,
aLLiE*
Crying over a boy? Check.
Writing in an online journal? Check.
Sleeping late? Check
Fantasizing about celebrity crushes? Check... Mmm, Ira Glass.
Going to the mall? pending Check.
Spending too much time on Facebook? Check
Listening to Miley Cyrus? Check.
Planning a birthday party? Check.
Unfortunately, I've also been doing very non-teenager-ly things like wearing old man boat shoes, doing sudokus/crossword puzzles, planning my post-collegiate future and paying bills. Come to think of it, I doubt it's very teenager-ly to fantasize about Ira Glass as well.
Maybe I need to go read Teen Vogue or something... before I have to switch over to TIME for the rest of my life.
4ever Urs,
aLLiE*
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Crocodile Rock (of Love?!)
The time has come to act on my Rock of Love obsession/fantasy: Bret Michaels (with Poison...whatevs) is coming to Allentown in the beginning of August. Alexis and I are going to break out the excessive eyeshadow and slutty elimination-night dresses in order to seduce him. http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/020040E786B83CA0
Also, last night's apartment-warming party was blazin'. (Get it? "warming"?..."blazing"?) But the aftermath has left me in a state of near death. At 5, I suddenly came alive upon hearing the words "dress up". So in the course of about 32 seconds, I went from sloppy and hungover to little black dress'd and smelling pretty.
Lastly, my birthday is in less than 2 weeks! Celebrate! (If you'll be in York the weekend of the 26th, let me know. I will fill you in on my VIP birthday plans, as you are a VIP blog-reader.)
xoxo,
Allie Girl
Also, last night's apartment-warming party was blazin'. (Get it? "warming"?..."blazing"?) But the aftermath has left me in a state of near death. At 5, I suddenly came alive upon hearing the words "dress up". So in the course of about 32 seconds, I went from sloppy and hungover to little black dress'd and smelling pretty.
Lastly, my birthday is in less than 2 weeks! Celebrate! (If you'll be in York the weekend of the 26th, let me know. I will fill you in on my VIP birthday plans, as you are a VIP blog-reader.)
xoxo,
Allie Girl
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