Sophia Sadoughi
Sophia is an eighteen year old born and raised in Toronto. Her favorite colors are yellow and purple. She enjoys reading, cooking, lazy days at the beach, sleeping in the nude, and the occasional photography.

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I’d also like this! Um, I wear a small.

I’d also like this! Um, I wear a small.

Oh god, I want this.

Oh god, I want this.

So wrong, yet so right.

So wrong, yet so right.

Oh, the emails I come home to.

Oh, the emails I come home to.

Life’s full of cloudy skies. Its up to you to make them colourful.
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Life’s full of cloudy skies. Its up to you to make them colourful.

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Rant

You say that you miss me and write sappy blog posts about it, yet as soon as I try talking to you, you’re either too busy, or completely ignore me. Just when things can’t possibly get better, you make plans and always bail at the last minute.

Make up your god damn mind already.

Experts may have found bones of English princess

More than 1,000 years after she was carted off to Germany to marry an ambitious Saxon duke, experts believe they have identified the body of Princess Eadgyth.

Bristol University in western England said Wednesday that, should scientific tests on her bones prove conclusive, that would make Eadgyth (pronounced ‘Edith’) the oldest member of the English royal family whose remains have survived. The bones were found in Magdeburg, Germany.

Eadgyth was born at the dawn of the 10th century, when England was still divided into a patchwork of Anglo-Saxon and Viking fiefdoms. Her brother King Athelstan kicked the Vikings out of York and routed the Scots and Irish in a massive battle around 937.

Historians consider him the first king to effectively rule of all of England.

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Instant Karma | John Lennon

30 Signs He Might Be A Secret Egomaniac

We’ve already armed you with a checklist of traits that might indicate that your boyfriend is a loser or majorly annoying, but what about that oh-so-common creature, The Egomaniac? Here are 30 signs you might be dating the ultimate narcissist in disguise.

  1. He can’t take an innocent joke at his expense.
  2. He works in advertising, has an M.D., or is the lead singer and/or most good-looking member of a band.
  3. He tells you about the assorted girls who hit on him. Or worse, the ones who looked at him and thus OBVIOUSLY wanted to hit on him.
  4. He gives you a verbal resume on a first date. Even if it sounds impressive, run.
  5. He begins 75 percent of sentences with I.
  6. He gets irritable when you IM while he’s busy at work, but doesn’t think twice about bugging your ass all day long when things are “slow” for him.
  7. He tells you about the extreme minutiae of his day as if it’s fascinating.
  8. He complains about how uncomfortable he is because it’s hot/cold/crowded, when clearly everyone in the situation is uncomfortable.
  9. He’s an advocate of unprotected sex because his penis is “too big” for condoms and/or he knows how to pull out with 100 percent accuracy.
  10. He likes to talk about how successful he intends to be in the future, insisting that money won’t be an issue despite the fact that he has four roommates and no career to speak of.
  11. He has a verbal tick which requires him to preface everything with “I feel like …”
  12. He zones out when you’re talking to him because he can’t be bothered to focus on anything outside himself for more than 30 seconds at a time.
  13. He couches every apology for wrongdoing in a subtle justification or excuse for his behavior. Ex: “I’m sorry I walked out on you in the middle of that movie the other night. I was really frustrated and upset. I just couldn’t sit through it.”
  14. He fixates on how he’s perceived by your friends and family, whether they like him, what they say about him, what they think of him.
  15. He obsesses over decisions related to his appearance, like how many centimeters to take off at his next haircut.
  16. He makes someone else record his voicemail message, so it seems he’s more important than he is.
  17. He’s obsessed with making his XBox avatar look exactly like him.
  18. He updates his Facebook status more than once a day.
  19. He refers to everyone as “lil’ bitch.”
  20. He refers to himself in the third person.
  21. He really doesn’t think waiting for a table at a restaurant is something someone like him should have to do.
  22. He really wants to be famous. For something. He’s just not sure what. But something.
  23. He brags about how much money he makes, or even worse, will make someday if he stays on his career track.
  24. He’s determined to please you in bed, but mainly because he doesn’t want to ruin his record of “always making a girl come.”
  25. If you make suggestions about how he could be better in bed, he twists around the problem to be your fault — you’re too uptight, not relaxed enough; you must not like sex; you must have intimacy issues, etc.
  26. He is concerned about how your funky outfit/makeup/etc. will reflect on him in front of his more conservative friends or parents.
  27. He fishes for info on how much money your ex boyfriends made.
  28. He talks about himself in superlatives, like “I’m the smartest guy you’ll ever date” or “My boss says I’m the best employee he’s ever had in his whole life.”
  29. He asks you, point blank, if he’s the best you’ve ever slept with.
  30. He’s too busy to help you move but still wants you to come watch his poetry slam.

Jesus Christ, this sounds a lot like me. OOF!

South Koreans told to go home and make babies

via BBC News:

South Korean government workers are being given an unusual instruction — go home and multiply.

At 1900 on Wednesday, officials at the Ministry of Health will turn off all the lights in the building.

They want to encourage staff to go home to their families and, well, make bigger ones. They plan to repeat the experiment every month.

The country has one of the world’s lowest birth rates, lower even than neighboring Japan.

Boosting the number of newborn children is a priority for the government, which is staring into the abyss of a rapidly aging society, falling levels of manpower and spiraling health care costs.

The Ministry of Health, now sometimes jokingly referred to as the Ministry of Matchmaking, is in charge of spearheading this drive, and it clearly believes its staff should lead by example.

Generous gift vouchers are on offer for officials who have more than one child, and the department organizes social gatherings in the hope of fostering love amongst its bureaucrats.

But critics say what is really needed is wide scale reform to tackle the burdensome cost of childcare and education that puts many young people off starting a family.

It says something about Korean civil servants that sending people home once a month at 1900 is early. However the likelihood of this resulting in a change is slim. There are plenty of diversions between the office and home. Korea is a very social country where after work dinner/drinking parties are more the norm than exception. It is entirely probable that this effort could have quite the opposite effect than intended.

This issue may also have something to do with the long working hours endemic to the cities of Korea, where the majority of the population now live. Late nights at the office means social evenings are either spent drinking with work colleagues or put off altogether because people are too tired — neither of which are ideal baby-making conditions. The intense study culture as well as mandatory military service for men means many Koreans put their potential family life on hold until much later, often well into their thirties. Until Korean workers feel it’s okay to go home before their boss at least once a week, they simply won’t have time for match-making.