Hecate Needs Your Help!

Hey everyone,

I know I’ve been super duper MIA, and for that I apologize. Right now I have a lot going on with school and work and doing observations hours for my credential, and I need your help once more. For one of my classes I have to create a video that would be used during an educational lesson. it can be on anything that we want, and if you know me well enough, you should know that I’m a big advocate of the body beautiful movement. You can be a size 0 or a size 30, it doesn’t matter to me; I think you’re all beautiful. so I’m asking you beautiful people for a favor. All I’m asking is for a video clip of you saying “I am not defined by ______” (eg i am not defined by my shoe size, I am not defined by the calories I eat, etc) as well as a picture/video of you doing something kick ass. You can continue to elaborate and tell me how awesome you are. All I’m really “demanding” is you saying that you are not defined by something. I would be eternally grateful for all your help and I will most definitely show you guys the final product. If you would like to – with the kindness in your hearts – feel free to email me at hecate.threenerds@gmail.com

Thank you so much, my beautiful nerds.

~Hecate

PS. This is not gender specific. Men can have body image issues as well.

Ninja edit: The due date is Sunday November 17,2013

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November’s Classic: The Princess Bride

Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll! The results are in and we’ll be reading The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be…well…a lot less than the man of her dreams?

As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad’s recitation, and only the “good parts” reached his ears.

Now Goldman does Dad one better. He’s reconstructed the “Good Parts Version” to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.

What’s it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.

In short, it’s about everything.

Discussion pages will be made in the following weeks.

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November Book Vote

Thanks to everyone who submitted suggestions! We’ve compiled everything into the poll below. The poll will be open until 11:59 PM (PST) on Wednesday, November 6th. There are synopses of the books under the cut.

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