Savasana

Two weeks ago, I started a list here of a few things I hoped to accomplish before I died. What I didn’t count on was the fact that other people might.
I included on that list the goal, “make peace with my father.”
My brother called at 11 o’clock last night to tell me that, hours before, [...]

For the girls

To tide you over till I’m settled and have more to say, feast your senses upon this: Yogurt!

Farewell, lovely Tucson

Inspired by yet another Mighty Girl theme, and in honor of my last few days in Tucson, I decided to start a list of all the Tucson experiences I’ve had that I’ll cherish when I leave. I had a hard time cutting myself off. That is, until I got bored and antsy, and then [...]

For the record

Okay, I am about to simultaneously complain about something petty and out myself as a musical Philistine. Brace yourselves, readers.
I’m sitting here packing up and listening to a mix of John Mayer songs. And, yes, I said John Mayer. Don’t you judge me. It’s poppy and melodic and occasionally serves as good background music. I [...]

Good news of the day

California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage
Rock on, my new home state, rock on.

Laps

This morning I got up way too early to meet my swimmer friend Sarah at the university pool. Despite a vague interest in swimming, I’d been avoiding this pool for nearly as long as I’ve lived here. That’s mainly because of the scary skinny girls and what they do to my self-esteem. But also because [...]

Bad news of the day

One of my courses this semester required me to do a hell of a lot of reading and talking about Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Which, as most of you hopefully know by now, accounts for a huge proportion of cervical cancer deaths in women. Also, thanks to the good (but evil pharmaceutical) people at Merck, [...]

Feliz Día de las Madres

In honor of Mother’s Day today, I decided to please both my mother and grandmother by visiting not one, but two, Catholic churches. Note that I did not say ‘attend mass’. I didn’t actually make it around to the mass part, but I did go to the site of the churches and bask in their [...]

Stranger than fiction

Kicked off by the magnificent Maggie Mason, great portions of the blogosphere have recently started making lists of all the things they hope to accomplish before they die. By and large, other people’s lists have been stressing me out. Hell, even the thought of what I have to accomplish in the next month is stressing [...]

From my academic department

Recently, I received a completely pointless progress report from my academic department. It’s a standard form letter, and is basically just a response to our annual self-evaluations (that we only seem to do because our department is so big our advisors can’t keep up with us otherwise). In all my wisdom, I decided not to [...]