Drunk Tumbling? Unwise. But at least it’s better than drunk texting. The above song is unreal. It’s transcendent. So was tonight. Everything has changed. For the better.
I’m here and I’m confused; it’s the kind of confusion that leads to bliss.
I remember hearing this song a few months ago, but I couldn’t find it afterward! THANK YOU!!
‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are taught about Benedict Arnold, the first traitor in America, but I’ve never heard—until I went onto the [National Women’s History Museum] Web site—about Deborah Sampson, the first woman to take a bullet for her nation. She was 21 years old in the Revolutionary War. She enlisted on the American side under a man’s name, wore boys’ clothing, was cut with a British saber across her forehead, and took a musket ball in her thigh.’ She’s a good storyteller, with a warm, urgent voice. ‘And her compatriots carried her six miles to the doctor’s, and he stitched up her head and she wouldn’t let him take her pants off—because he would discover she was a woman!’ So did she die of her wound? ‘No—she was very good with her needle, so she cut the musket ball out and sewed her own leg up and served another eighteen months. In 1783 she was discharged, went home and had three children.’ Sampson was granted £34 by the state of Massachusetts for exhibiting ‘an extraordinary instance of feminine heroism by discharging the duties of a faithful, gallant soldier, and at the same time preserving the virtue and chastity of her sex unsuspected and unblemished.’ Amazing story. ‘And I am 60 years old and I learn this story,’ says Streep. ‘I should have learned that story in the fourth grade. Because it helps you as a child to know that it is not just Paul Revere riding a horse and calling, ‘The British are coming, the British are coming.’ It’s not just Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and the battles won, it’s the bravery of all these people that are undiscovered, unknown.’
Meryl Streep donated the $1M she made playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady to the endeavor of building a National Women’s History Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Stuff like that is why I love her.
In the future, I plan on having a daughter named Vashti (the only woman in the bible to stand up to a man), a dog named Achilles (Achilles, heel! :3), a cat named Nakata (after the character in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore), and a husband named George Clooney. For now, I'm content with my iPod named Jesus (I can't find Jesus. I've found Jesus!).
In a nutshell: I'm a sophomore at Brown University student, studying Art History and Computer Science. At the moment, I'm really excited about life.
