I am an avid reader of the Goop newsletter, a byproduct of Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand. In it, Goop gives you recipes, style tips and ways to live your best life.
But here's the gag: None of the advice she gives you is plausible. None of the clothes she recommends are affordable. Her recipes are far too organic and healthy for me to ever think about making them.
Goop preaches a lifestyle of wellness that I'll never even get close to reaching. Sleeping more, eating well, using detoxifying salt shampoos. Listening to healers and using crystals and doing this thing where you live in complete silence for 10 days.
I'm utterly obsessed with it because it's nothing that I think I'll ever be. My idea of wellness is eating macaroni and cheese in my pajamas. Instead of salt shampoo, I use dry shampoo to avoid washing my hair. Instead of healing through 10 days of silence, I just never shut up. Instead of searching to find myself, I search for excuses to watch reality television instead of studying.
On campus today
Yesterday, the newly-renovated Karen Shelton Stadium was unveiled for the UNC field hockey team, making it the first UNC athletic playing facility to be named after a woman. It's hard to believe that such a successful career began with Shelton not wanting to be a head coach. Read more about the barriers Shelton overcame in her career to bring in championships, awards and incomparable legacy of coaching.
Yesterday, an individual named Sarah Ferrell was issued a warning of trespass after posing as a UNC student and trying to get into Granville Tower. An individual by the same name has been reported to NC State officials, and the reports have led to a lot of conversation regarding the girl's identity and motives.
On Thursday night, UNC football will welcome back their teammates who were suspended after they sold team-issued shoes, including last year's starting quarterback Chazz Surratt and defensive end Malik Carney, when they take on Miami.
Free speech
Yesterday was UNC's tenth annual First Amendment Day, and Silent Sam was central to the day's discussion, especially during the panel called Public Art, Public Memorials and the First Amendment.
On Monday, the Chancellor and Board of Trustees announced that they'd created an email for suggestions about Silent Sam. But in the midst of suggestions about the statue's potential relocation, UNC Libraries have already said they don't want the monument.
Things to do
Revisit the 2000s, without the low-rise jeans. WXYC will be hosting a 2000s dance at Cat's Cradle. Hint: We're a little biased because assistant city editor David Saff is a DJ for the event (we call him DJ Tallanasty).
One more thing!
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