Refusing to cooperate

Interwebs, meet Nina. Nina is the big adorable dog I’ve been pet-sitting for the last few days. She’s a total sweetheart, but she’s pissed at me right now. It’s actually funny that I like her as much as I do. I spent most of my childhood (and some of my adulthood), terrified of dogs her [...]

Actually, I prefer Foucault

So, have you heard about this Stuff White People Like business? The first time I happened upon this site, I was seriously offended (or either it cut too close to home – your pick). The second time, I was equally annoyed. And the third. And the fourth.
Let me repeat: I DO NOT WANT TO LIKE [...]

With which to imbibe

To prove to you guys that I’m taking my coursework this semester VERY SERIOUSLY, I give you the product of any entire two class periods worth of effort. Behold, it is a sake jug:

…and four mini sake cups. Because you know if I’m making something in pottery class, it has to be something I’d actually [...]

On being average

I’m pretty sure I sent this Utne article to a few people, but I don’t remember posting it here. Thus, I think it shall make excellent blog filler until I get back from L.A. and have more to say. Enjoy:
Have An Average Day
I keep going back to nibble on this one again and again. [...]

Progress

Career-related activities of the day:
1. Trying on suits, slipping on very practical pumps, and twirling around my living room looking like Business Barbie. Very much liking the sound of heels click click clicking around my hardwoods (take that, noisy downstairs neighbor – mom shoes!)
2. Trying to decide whether to go with very practical [...]

27 Dresses

A few weeks ago, a few friends and I decided to go see the movie P.S. I Love You. Apparently we don’t cry enough in grad school and therefore felt the need to pay Hollywood to help us emote even more dramatically. We ended up getting the show time wrong, though, so we instead [...]

Snippets

I’m feeling the need to move the mopey post down the page a little. I have this secret fear that some Internet stranger will happen upon my blog looking for a vegan cake recipe or something, and the first blog they see will be some self-involved tripe where I’m going on and on about my [...]

Yet another noncommittal update

Unfortunately (or fortunately?), I don’t have enough testy content or revolutionary thinking these days to fill out a proper blog post. Basically, I’m not swinging wildly in any discernible direction. I’m at a place of rest, actually, which you’ll notice makes me a pretty shitty blogger. It’s hard to get motivated to write a missive [...]

Dear European Man,

Listen, you are not fooling anybody. You do not meet a girl a week and a half before you leave her country and then suddenly develop an interest in being her BFF. You do not call and text her nearly every day so that you might enjoy the sound of her voice, much as you [...]

Candy

Last Saturday, I went out for the first time in ages. I hung out with some friends, had a few drinks, and generally reacquainted myself with Tucson’s tiny bar scene. In the midst of this, I apparently caught the attention of a friend of a friend, a European man who’s here in the States studying [...]