When you’re recovering from the flu and are down to your last pair of clean clothes (the ugly ones), and you find yourself needing to walk the mile and back to the Student Health Center, what do you figure are the odds that lying directly in your path would be a camera crew and a [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 29, 2008
Newsflash: being sick still sucks
So, I know this may come as quite a shock, but I really hate being sick. I left my apartment today for the first time since…um…Saturday, and God, was it really only two days ago? I felt so weak I had to hold myself up in the grocery store checkout line by leaning on [...]
January 27, 2008
Ups, Downs
First the good: Yay Obama! I think! I think I like you! But I’m not sure! But somehow it’s the best I got today!
And the bad: I’m fairly certain that what I thought was the beginning of a cold is, in fact, the flu. To the tune of a 102 degree fever. To the tune [...]
January 26, 2008
Breadcrumbs
One of the fun things about blogging, besides communicating with complete strangers (and like ranting and stuff) is re-reading your own old posts. Especially when you find yourself feeling a little lost and sad about your immediate prospects, it’s incredibly helpful to have a record that you can go back through and think, “Oh, yeah, [...]
January 26, 2008
Alternate headline
So, first, this:
Stuffed animals may ease war-related stress in kids
Go read that. I’ll wait.
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Back now? Great. Because I’d suggest as an alternate title: “Children encouraged to develop an unhealthy attachment to an inanimate object are effectively distracted from the grown-ups trying to kill each other.” Mine is no less, “no shit, dumbass,” but I think [...]
January 24, 2008
House-cleaning
Some of you may have noticed that I’m in the process of leaving a PhD program. And in case it isn’t clear, I’m pretty excited about this process. I’m also looking for work back East, and I’m pretty excited about that too. So, in celebration of both process-ees, I’ve been doing what I always do [...]
January 17, 2008
Geek Love, freely borrowed
Leaving the film Juno last weekend…
Megan: Awww, Bleeker.
Me: Dude, I know. I want a Bleeker.
Megan: Right? Everyone should have a Bleeker.
Me: You know what’s sad, though? I think I’ve had a Bleeker. Actually, I think I’ve had a couple of Bleekers. But then I was mean to them and then pretty much [...]
January 16, 2008
Gratitude
Today, I finally gave up and went to the dentist. I know this isn’t ground-breaking news, but it’s novel for me because:
a) I fucking hate going to the dentist. I’m convinced there’s a special place in hell for mean dental hygienists, and I’ve known quite a few candidates for that place.
b) I haven’t had dental [...]
January 12, 2008
Exactly
What she said: Chahlie Bit Me
Cause what I really wanted for Christmas?
A little British child of my own to say, “That really huht, Chahlie. And it’s still huh-ting.”
Yes. Indeed. Quite.
It’s a damn shame I’m not around more British children on a daily basis. The sound of a grown-up person British accent [...]
January 9, 2008
Amusement
I just noticed the search string “what is biocultural anthropology?” had led some poor Internet user to this post from over a year ago. Yeah, I’m sure that cleared things riiiiiight up for them.
If that person is you, a word: you might, perchance, find a better explanation here. I’m sure that the author of that [...]
