memes, blanket coats, Icelandic names

In case you missed it, #overlyhonestmethods has joined whatshouldwecallgradschool as the most recent "for grad students, by grad students" meme. (Okay, yeah, i just spent 15 minutes clicking through those. Gosh.)

i really, really love the coats from Pendelton, but am pretty sure i won't be able to pull them off. However similar styles pop up from time to time, like recently on the Sartorialist, to tempt me.

i got my flu shot today. There was a question as to whether or not the highly prevalent circulating strains was covered under this year's vaccine. i doublechecked the CDC FluView website this morning, and it looks like roughly half of the flu cases they've tested are an H3 variety, which is covered in the vaccine.

Amazing eye makeup (and please note that there are several pages) for Roommate, and anyone else who's curious. (Tracked by from the MarySue post.)

i spent part of Christmas break quilting a blanket for a niece-of-my-heart, and ended up listening to quite a bit of Of Monsters and Men. i'm still on the fence about their stuff (i like most of it), but this brought up further curiosity about the naming system of humans in Iceland (and traditionally Scandinavia); "Icelandic names differ from most current Western family name systems by being patronymic (occasionally matronymic) in that they reflect the immediate father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage." to quote the wikipedia article. People are listed by their first names in directories, and to further clarify, short descriptors are usually added. Iceland also has a naming committee, and baby names have to meet criteria (like, characters already found in the alphabet, etc).  i wouldn't mind having the surname Michaelsdaughter, but arguably my actual last name is slightly shorter.

A recent post on Bad Catholic is called "Why aren't you naked?" and  summed up with the interesting thought, " then the simple fact of pulling on a pair of pants in the morning expresses a truth illustrated in the creation myths of every religion the world has ever put up with: The Fall, that bold and obvious proclamation that things are not as they should be, and that there is a better world to be attained.".