McKenna's Laughter Blog

To preface this entire post, I'd like to say that I really don't watch movies. I'm very busy, and I find the idea of having to sit for 2-3 hours to a watch a movie that's probably not even that good a little daunting. I'm also an avid reader, so I'd much prefer to read in my free time than watch movies. In looking at internet lists of the top comedies, I just really haven't seen enough of them to pass judgement. That being said, here is my top comedies list: 1. She's the Man (also my favorite movie of all time) 2. Pitch Perfect (my second favorite movie of all time) 3. Napoleon Dynamite 4. 21 Jump Street 5. The Heat As far as the silent comedy compilations, they weren't my favorite, but I did find humor in them. As new age as it sounds, I strongly dislike watching both black and white AND silent films, so I could never watch an entire comedic film from the early 20th century. I will, however, list here my favorite scene from each of the actor ...

Here's a selfie (after 10 hours in the car )with my favorite author Toni Morrison.

My first uncontrollable laughter episode for the second half of the semester happened last night. I just got a new ear piercing, and ever since then, my boyfriend, Matt, and I have been arguing about the best way to pierce an ear at home. I say that it’s more common to use a sterilized needle and an apple, while he says it’s better to use a potato rather than apple. I honestly could not tell you how or why we came upon this subject yesterday night, but this time, instead of arguing for either a potato or an apple, we each came up with more and more ludicrous things one could use to pierce an ear besides a nail and either a potato or an apple. Below is a short list of some of the options we had (in order of ludocrity): A Samurai sword and a peach A rusty nail and a pineapple A chef’s knife and a grape A dull butter knife and an artichoke A twig and a carrot A sharpened fingernail and celery A cursed dagger and my ex’s still beating heart A cactus and my left hand (the cactus bei...

For this blog I’m going to reflect, for myself, on how my semester is going thus far. The semester started out pretty slow for me – I didn’t have much reading for the first few weeks, and even when the reading started, I didn’t have much else. It seemed like I was missing something because I was always ahead on work which never happens. Don’t get me wrong, I always do my homework, but it’s almost never done earlier than the night before. This first month of bliss was great and I felt on top of the world (not to be dramatic about it or anything)! Fast forward to when the papers and tests started coming – it really wasn’t that bad either. This semester I switched around what normally is my schedule (i.e. class in the morning and work in the afternoon to work in the morning and class in the afternoon), and it seemed to be working better. I’m most productive in the morning, so I did all my homework at work usually 1-2 days in advance. Usually by the time I get to class I’m pretty tired and...