Your Xanga Subscription Digest

Xanga Subscription Update xanga • visit your site

Daily Update from Your Subscriptions! Date: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 Username: ira27snider Latest Updates from featuredquestions Have you ever had a bad roommate? What made you incompatible? Did you ever resolve your conflicts? submitted by celmisia view answers - answer it! Posted 2/3/2010 at 10:49 PM Latest Updates from featuredweblogs Apple's Marketing Is Annoyingly Elitist So there you have it, folks. Apple has released another new toy that everyone's going to want, and that everyone is going to swear by. The iPad is a marvel of modern technology. It's that not-quite-smartphone, not-quite-laptop device that's going to change the way you read books, write notes and check your email. It is a testament to Apple's elitist, "the grass is greener and our s*** don't stink" marketing strategy.  Now don't misunderstand me, I know a good piece of technology when I see one. I've used Macs before, both laptops and desktops with OS X, and even earlier Mac OS's. I've got a shiny, high capacity iPod Classic that satisfies all my on-the-go musical cravings. They make good looking, yet still functional products. But their ads, the way they go about revealing their products, right down to the way they design their retail stores all leave a sour taste in my mouth. More Here... Posted 2/3/2010 at 12:25 AM - add eprops - add comments College Brand-Name Superficiality When I first decided to quit my job at 22 – an age when most people are graduating or have already graduated from college – and enroll in community college in pursuit of my first college degree, my parents were unsupportive from the very start.  This was community college after all; the thirteenth grade, the lowest common denominator of higher education, where the deadbeats who can’t get into real college go.  They had no interest in a son who was joining such an unexceptional group of people. My mother would eventually lie to her neighbors that I had already graduated, too embarrassed to tell them her son was a community college student.  The night before my finals, she even went so far as to tell me that I would be better off dropping out and getting a job polishing shoes (I would go on to ace my finals in spite of her).  As for my father, when I eventually showed him the straight A’s I had received my first semester, he responded by telling me not to be so proud of myself. “It was only community college,” he said. More Here... Posted 2/3/2010 at 11:38 PM - add eprops - add comments Dear Tukha Yesterday, I heard one of the most beautiful and most heartbreaking things of my life. It's something I'll always carry with me -- and perhaps the one phrase I'll attach to my time in Haiti. And I wanted to share it with you because you've made our work in Haiti possible. I was at Port-au-Prince's main hospital again, checking on how the food we'd delivered was being cooked and taken to patients. I accompanied some volunteers down the pathways of the sprawling hospital complex, past one fallen building and a couple that have been closed off because of earthquake damage, to a set of tents that are temporary home to injured and recovering children. As the volunteers passed out the meals to grateful families, I took time to talk to a few parents. One of them was 36-year-old Claricia Basaent, mother of two injured children, including 11-year-old Nadine. Nadine sustained internal injuries as their house collapsed around them in the midst of the earthquake, which led to an emergency appendectomy here at the hospital. It was only the second time since the earthquake that Nadine has had a hot lunch -- the first was the day before, when the hospital kitchen started making meals from Mercy Corps-donated supplies. Before this, she subsisted on whatever was brought in by small organizations and volunteer doctors: mostly crackers and other small sustenance. I asked Claricia where she slept at night. (She can't stay at the hospital after visiting hours end.) And her smile stunned me almost as much as her answer did. More Here... Posted 2/3/2010 at 11:48 PM - add eprops - add comments The Xanga Crush I know many (of course, not all) of you have a Xanga crush that you're too shy to admit.  What it is: ... A crush you have on a Xangan... Duh. You read their blogsite, you understand each other, or the most popular... you just think they're so dang cute or hot. Pretty self explanatory. I'm not talking about your boyfriend or girlfriend who happens to have a Xanga, but a crush you developed on a Xangan you met on Xanga. When I developed a Xanga crush, I told myself, "Are you kidding?! You're crushing on a guy you saw... online... that you've NEVER met before?! Pathetic!" But I was way wrong. More Here... Posted 2/3/2010 at 11:59 PM - add eprops - add comments

This email was sent to jun541@gmail.com, the current email address on your Account, input when you created your account or edited your Account Info. It is a recurring email, although we'll send it only on days when there are new updates from your subscriptions. If you'd like to edit the email address on your account, please visit your Account Info. To unsubscribe or edit your subscription settings, please visit your Email Update Options. If you have additional questions about this email or your Account, please email us or send a letter to: Xanga.com, Inc., Attn: Subscription Services, P.O. Box 500 Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018

www.xanga.com