Kids these days

In the class I’m TA’ing, we’ve been discussing reproductive physiology over the last week or so. The main topics we’re teaching them are relatively innocuous (or anodyne, if you will), but the subject matter being what it is, our students’ minds have tended to wander. In class last Tuesday, the professor was fielding some relatively [...]

Vocab word of the day: anodyne

Yesterday, I got back a midterm I’ve been dreading for weeks. Reading it before then trying to tackle this week’s assigned readings was not a good choice. This professor pulls no punches, my friends. Despite expectations, I’d gotten away relatively unscathed on the first few papers I turned into him. On this midterm, however, he [...]

Somewhat lost in Pisces

You know what sucks a little? Inadvertently reading your Google Horoscope for the next day before you’ve even gone to sleep. Especially when said horoscope says something like… Daily Horoscope for Virgo Your key planet Mercury is somewhat lost in Pisces today, even as it conjuncts the brilliant Sun. As hard as you attempt to [...]

The next best thing

For those of you who didn’t know, yesterday was Mardi Gras. I, for one, spent the day running around telling everyone so, like a five-year-old on her birthday. “Did you know it’s Mardi Gras, Katie? Did you? Did you? Did you know?” (Katie did, in fact). I’d also like to state for the record that it [...]

Taser

As I sit here printing a stack of linguistics readings three inches thick and supposedly working on my Theory midterm, it occurred to me that I had not properly introduced my friend Dana to this here blog readership.   Dana is super cool. She hails from East Los Angeles and says things like “uber”, [...]

Three things

First. I went for a run earlier today at Reid Park, and by the time I got back to my car, I was sweating like a mother. I looked at the thermometer on my dashboard panel and discovered why. It’s 80 friggin degrees here, and it’s only February 10th. Oh, holy Jesus. Second. I’m not [...]

Charmed

Last night I organized a small group of friends to finally go have dinner on 4th Avenue and check out the local Black Cherry Burlesque (who are on Myspace: here!). A group of five friends dined at La Indita, which I’ve heard billed as the “best place to find vegan Mexican food in Tucson.” I was not disappointed. [...]

Feeling more than a little woo-woo

Woo-woo is the term one of my friends uses to describe anything outside of the confines of the scientific, rational Western mindset. Yoga? Check. Taoism? Check. Crying during yoga when your teacher reads Taoist proverbs? Double check. I’m not sure what happened tonight. I’ve done yoga on and off for years and have never left feeling quite like I [...]

And more news of me crying

Yesterday, I got a package in the mail completely out of the blue. Having had a wreck of a day, I found it waiting for me after a long walk home from a local coffee shop. Pulling the yellow cushioned envelope from my overstuffed mailbox, I flew upstairs, dropped my messenger bag at the door, and plopped [...]

Communist Indoctrination 101

This little snippet won’t be new to my Tucson friends, but I think my Atlanta and elsewhere-based friends might get a kick out of discovering that what I’m actually learning isn’t anthropology but instead political indoctrination. No, really. Or, anyway, so says David Horowitz. According to the Tucson Weekly:
“A right-wing ideologue has come out swinging [...]