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Yaeba: Crooked Teeth in Japan
Yaeba is the Japanese name for crooked teeth. Braces are very uncommon in Japan because they find yaeba to be very cute over there! Especially if teeth overlap or if there is a tooth coming out of the gum area. -
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
I hate to admit this, but I was a clumsy kid. My siblings were really good at sports, and my dad is a sports fanatic. Something happened with me though and I just didn't inherit it. I was a nice kid and reasonably well… -
Just a Few Thoughts From a Girl Who Used to Starve Herself
As of late, I’ve been stumbling across an overwhelming amount of blogs focusing on calorie counts, pro-Ana support, etc. (and it breaks my heart to see them). Or, on the other end of the spectrum, I’ll find eating disord… -
Senioritis
Through extensive study and personal experience I have singlehandedly mapped out the symptoms of this terrible disease that affects almost all fourth year students in school. I have noticed that Senioritis occurs, on av… -
50 Things To Make Life Better
I turn 50 on Saturday, it blows my mind. Allow me to share some of the things I've learned in my fifty years of LIVING. 1. You are stronger and more resilient than you think you are. I live in chronic pain, the result of… -
Teenage Pregnancy: What It's Really All About
I am a young mom, which is stating the obvious. I'm 22, but look about 14. I get all kinds of crazy looks from strangers when they see me wagging around two little ones. What really blows people's mind is when they disc… -
My $.25 engagement ring
"I love you!" he declared. I looked at him stupidly. It was the first time a boy has told me he loved me. We were both nine years old at the time. "I don't believe you." My mom told me that you can never trust boys at… -
Old School vs. New School hotties
Ok, so there's a whole new breed of the "teenybopper hottie" I'm exactly hip to them like I was when I was 16. And in fact, I don't think most of them hold a candle to the guys who were the $hit back when I was younger.… -
5 Things Girls Want in a Guy
5. Girls love sensitive and artsy guys. Don't be afraid to show that you like music or fashion. Girls absolutely adore guys that actually have feelings and don't pretend that they're hard core manly men. Actually for me,… -
Are you a Troll on Xanga? QUIZ
It has come to my attention that some Troll types do not even seem to realize that they are trolls, hence this quiz. Answer these 20 questions if you really want to know for sure (scoring is at the end). 1) You have v… -
One For One
Genocide. Torture. Slavery. Poverty. Rape. Murder. Abuse. How much do these words weigh in your heart? They weigh heavy in mine. Some days reading the paper makes my eyes blur and my heart cry. Some times I cannot compre… -
Things All Men Like and Dislike
I see a lot of women who unfortunately don't know what a guy likes and they don't like. To provide some clarity on this apparently fuzzy subject, I have provided a list of things that men like and do not like, to help… -
Rape Awareness
A woman is more likely to get raped in the military than get killed by the enemy. The Pentagon's own numbers say that a woman has more to fear by being raped in the military than being killed in action. As of July 24th… -
Originality
I am no longer frightened of being unoriginal. See, in writing, originality gets exalted to a godlike position that it never should have occupied. Editors have rejected stories of mine, saying that my plot and characte… -
Fairness For Fathers... Does Such a Thing Exist?
Today I read what one of my online friends has to deal with . He married young, had a daughter, got divorced and lost all rights to his daughter. The ex wife, the child's mother got full custody and the right to go, and… -
Footprints Feedback
We've been hearing anecdotally that some users are browsing Xanga less because of Footprints. Personally, I do browse a bit less because I know people will see my footprints... but I also browse more, b/c sometimes I s… -
The Validity of Proposition 8
Alright guys, settle in for a long(ish) one. DISCLAIMER: As a guy who just so happens to be a homo, I absolutely believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to get married. It absolutely blows my mind that the peopl… -
Application For Permission To Date My Daughter
So a while ago I read this on someone else's site a while ago, and I wanted to add my own commentary to it. Application for Permission to Date My Daughter: Note: This application will be incomplete and rejected unless ac… -
The Tyranny of The Majority
The California Supreme Court upheld the ban on gay marriage today. It shouldn't come as a shocker since San Francisco's mayor requested the court's decision be delayed for a week and the speculation was it was due to the… -
Cultural Theft
Someone brought to my attention about some upcoming movie called The Last Airbender, which is based off some popular kids cartoon on Nickelodean. It's supposed to be about some shaolin monk-looking kid going on some adv… -
20 Things To Never Say to a Girl
Editor's Note: We got a ton of responses for the entry "6 Things You Should Never Say to a Girl," so we compiled a list of other not advisable phrases, based on your comments. Enjoy! -
Not exactly something to be proud of
Throughout high school I wanted to be an overachiever. I stuffed my agenda with extra curricular, clubs, activities, and volunteer work, pushing the loads of homework from my A.P. classes into the wee hours of the morni… -
Jon & Kate Plus Eight Exploitations
Tonight, when Alexis Gosselin so innocently told her dad, "Daddy, I don't want you to leave anymore," my heart positively broke in half. For those of you who don't have 81 episodes of Jon and Kate Plus Eight recorded ont… -
Pressure At Work: Would You Quit Your Job?
Last night I got an instant message from a college friend. We're not the closest of friends but we talk on ocassion. He told me quit his current job after being frustrated with his work environment, especially his boss… -
Blogger's Block
There's all kind of thoughts running through my mind, and things I would like to blog about in the future, but for right now I just couldn't think of anything. I just wanted to write something, anything, because I love w… -
Passengers.
There are many posts and blogs and people complaining verbally (quite verbally, I should add) about the type of drivers they HATE! And yet, those that complain the most are the worst passengers.... allow me to elaborate… -
Failing In College Is About More Than Just Grades
Before going away to college, students always hear about the good times, the parties, girls, drinking, etc. What many college grads fail to tell you are the financial problems college students face while in school. Stud… -
Xanga Fixes - Known Issues & Bugs
All of the site maintenance we've done recently (and some of the subsequent site funkiness) has stemmed from two big efforts that have been keeping us busy over here at Xanga HQ: -
Please, for the love of God, tell me I am beautiful
Allow me to take a break between uncontrollable sobs to type this up for you. Allow me, please, to introduce a new me. The 'me' who is far from confident. The 'me' that wishes she can be anywhere else as anybody else. Th… -
The Terror That is PMS
For approximately five days a month my mind goes AWOL. One of my coworkers calls it her "time of clarity", but you might as well call me "Ms. Sensitive". Make the wrong move around me and I will bite your head off. I… -
In a Moment, Everything Can Change
The amount of living we have gets shorter every single day, if you think about it. Every day that passes is one less day that could be spent doing something amazing. And, not only that it's changing at a really fast rat… -
Memorial Day
This is my first Memorial Day since I returned from Iraq. Yesterday 2-25 SBCT unveiled a memorial dedicated to the 18 men who have been killed in Iraq from this brigade. I personally knew three of them. I will never fo… -
People with Braces are "Trashy Wh*res"
If there is such thing as "reverse racism," then there definitely is such a thing as "reverse shallowness." Our society somewhere down the line has conjured up this myth of "inner beauty" as a way of giving ugly people… -
What Pres. Obama Ought To Do With The Detainees.
So what should obama do? He should turn them over to the civillian courts, knowing that many if not most of them will go free. This is what we do when cops break the law and violate peoples' rights. We live with the c… -
Teach Me: Sex in the Classroom
I was just over at Revelife reading the newest post about homosexuality/censorship/students' rights. (How is that for narrowing down the playing field?) The post itself is good. It asks for an honest opinion about a stud… -
Why Girls Should Wear Panties and Cross Their Legs
Oh my; I really can't make this stuff up. I was just checking out the headlines and found this. A Florida mother is demanding that her daughter's high school stop handing out yearbooks and reclaim those that have alread… -
Affirmative Action
Does affirmative action work to correct the inherent injustices of a racist system? Or is it really "reverse racism" as some claim? Let's look at two hypothetical students. Student A got a 3.8 GPA in a great, suburban h… -
Let Us Honor Them
"Due to his service in Vietnam, through no fault of his own, my husband was exposed to Agent Orange that caused him to acquire insulin dependent diabetes and neuropathy. Over the past 11 years I have watched a once vit… -
Teacher: Read This Book That Offends You or Drop the Class
Last week, a student in my Literature class dropped out because she didn't want to read a controversial book that the teacher had assigned. -
Tell me about any Xanga bugs!
On Fridays, I usually try to fix up random bugs that have popped up on Xanga. Only problem is, sometimes, I don't realize a bug exists until much later. So let's try something out. If you've experienced some random bu… -
Walmart versus Green Day
I understand that there are a multitude of artists who are willing to censor their work to see it sold at Walmart. Good for them. They should be allowed to do that to if they feel they need to. But that should not be ma… -
Why "Good" Girls Suck
The last 2 failed attempts at getting a GF I had were from very similar girls: both were churchgoers and made good grades; they didn't curse, smoke, drink, party, fornicate, gamble, make dirty jokes, or anything that wou… -
No, My Boyfriend is NOT White
“Your boyfriend’s in Finance? Mine is, too. Oh, and he’s White.” Silence. What? Was I supposed to squeal as though you’ve just shown me the most fabulous pair of this season’s shoes that you’d miraculously gotten on sal… -
Which operating system(s) do you use? Why?
I was born a Windows girl; I will die a Windows girl. Just like the hokey commercials spoof, my boyf is a Mac and I'm a PC. This is something we continually (jokingly, but not without standing up for our OSes) argue abo… -
Are You a Pizza Snob?
Growing up in New York has definitely made me a pizza snob. That’s what my out-of-state friends call me, anyway. I don’t even bother trying pizza anymore when I travel. Not even Chicago’s deep-dish will do it for me.… -
Social Networking Sites Determine Our Friendship Status!
Since when do social networking sites determine whether you're friends with someone in real life or not? Scenario: You and a friend get into a argument of some sort. You sign on to Myspace/Facebook and you notice they'r… -
Turns out Xanga is good for my career!
This morning I heard a colleague making a lunch appointment with a client of hers. I wasn't eavesdropping, it's just that she was on the phone in the conference room where I needed to be to look something up. So I hear… -
Minimum Age to Know You've Found Your Soulmate?
My boyfriend and I have incredible chemistry - the type you feel only exists on TV. We met during freshman orientation at college this year, the second day we were on campus. -
Earl Grey
Just as I got to the sink, it suddenly hit me. I want my mom. Events that occurred a couple of weeks ago made me miss her more than usual. On this particular night/morning, I needed to feel close to her, even if only f… -
Passing Time
Do you ever feel like you are just trying to find ways to pass time so you can hit the next "big" step in your life. But when you're at this new big step, you begin doing the same thing?All our lives we keep saying "Oh,… -
People Frustrate Me When It Comes To Eating Healthy
There is a girl at the office who is about 350 lbs, and says she wants to lose 150. She sees that I am losing weight, so she asks me for advice a lot. I spent a lot of time giving her advice, you know, eat this, not that… -
Home Sweet Home
I like big cities, but sometimes I miss my small hometown when I’m away at school. If I were to stand in my front lawn in my apartment at school, I would be greeted with a parking lot full of cars. I hear the train, ca… -
My Hero
I know I often say I do not have hero(ine)s. But last night before falling asleep I was thinking about this. I can't say I look up to any musician, writer, actor or politician as a hero. When I have met them they all… -
Aspergers and the Law
We learned the hard way, that an Aspie should never never never answer questions at a police station without an attorney present. They want to please and it is sometimes very easy to get them to agree to things th… -
To My Future Husband
Dear Future Husband, I do not think that I have met you, but there isn’t a single day that goes by without me thinking about you. Whenever I get a moment to tear myself away from my restless life I think of where you are… -
Self-Deprecation & A Fragile Ego
I sit in the second row from the back, because a professor spit his tooth out on me in my first year. That's what I get for sitting in the front row, so I traumatically swore I'd never do it, again. Now, I'm in the el… -
It's Unfair That Trashy Girls Get Everything
These days, I feel like there's no inspiration in the world. True beauty is becoming more and more invisible, while the "trashy glamorous" types of beauty are rising to the skies. I'm still young, and I aspire to be so… -
Eulogy to Shirley
All of us have had someone special in our lives that we’ll never forget. For me, that someone has been around my family, practically a part of my family, for as long as I can remember, but I’ve only really gotten to kno… -
I Was The Girl in The Armani Ad
The habit I'm about to describe will be familiar to anyone here who is also from Manhattan, or probably any other city where train travel is the norm. I take the subway up to school every morning. To perfect my commute… -
When Nothing's Ever Good Enough For Your SO
I have been in my relationship for two years now and he obviously really loves me and stuff because we have lasted so long. But when we first started dating, I didn't wear makeup or wear anything girly/tight/whatever, I… -
Persistence
I realized today that although I had always considered myself a confident person, I hadn't truly been confident until my late 20's. This manifested itself in my way of pursuing what I desired. The belief that I deserve… -
Myths they teach you in high school
"High school prepares you for college." "Two chocolate chip cookies, please?” It's my habitual lunch in this dreary cafeteria. It's not healthy, I know that, but its one of the few edible foodstuffs offered. I heard… -
Literature Gave Me Unrealistic Expectations of Women
I read too much. This might sound like some crazy paradox: Surely reading is a positive thing, therefore how can one break the desired standard, and read too much? Well. Reading has given me lots of unrealistic expectati… -
Your Typical Asian Parents (especially chinese)
I've thought of these points from personal experiences. These may or may not apply to your asian parents. Let's hope it doesn't all apply to you.<LI>Doing well in school. I am happy to say that I don't have parent… -
i told my parents i'm dating.
this morning, i told my parents about kevin. these past few years, they've known i've dated a few people, but they also knew that it never got serious, or went anywhere.my mom woke me up around ten in the morning to show…
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