As often happens when I'm stressed and anxious, I didn't sleep. In this case, I didn't sleep for about 35 hours, took a nap, ended up missing section and waking up fifteen minutes before my class started. Apparently section was a solid hour of people arguing about Libya, including someone shouting "ALL NGOS ARE USELESS," so maybe it's just as ( Read more... )

It is indeed fortuitous when the day you choose to buy an iced coffee, the nice woman behind the Starbucks counter offers you some kind of fancy new kind for free. I don't remember what it was, but it is quite tasty ( Read more... )

I ended up in the emergency room last night, for who-the-fuck-knows reason. Symptoms were: extreme dizziness, head full of noise, muscle cramps, pins and needles, shaking, extreme nausea, and me turning hysterical every time I tried to communicate something. My professor and TA noticed me when I was basically curled up in my seat trying to figure ( Read more... )

Post triumphant pleasure, I promptly got the motherfucking hell disturbed out of me by class reading. I literally do not remember the last time something effected me this badly, actual identified triggers included. It wasn't even the "bad part" - I got through the systematic killing and mass dismemberment and such okay. There was just... I think ( Read more... )

I am already predicting my religion class is going to be the death of me. The main components of the course are: two-hour lecture, 50+ pages of reading a week, four papers (plus drafts), a final, and mandatory participation on the class forum. But then our all-wise TA has decided to add discussion topics on articles that were not in the class ( Read more... )

I got library privileges! Reading room only, sadly, no access to the stacks or ordering from the satellite libraries - eg Tozzer (anthropology library) - but this none the less makes my research paper a lot less daunting, because Grossman suuuuuucks and the public library is a pain. I have to restrain myself from flopping all over the place and ( Read more... )

My semester starts tomorrow, and I have almost all my reading for the first week done. I am determined to kick this semester in the teeth. Which I am probably going to have to, because World Religions looks like it's going to kick me in the teeth if I don't get to it first - 50+ pages of reading every week, four papers plus drafts. Also, the ( Read more... )

I picked up the current issue of Bitch magazine (one of my favorite things in the 'verse), and there was a rather interesting article about the declining use of the word "lesbian." Basically, they noted that fewer and fewer young people are identifying by it, instead using gay or queer. I had gotten this impression, but wasn't entirely sure - my ( Read more... )

My, it's been a bit! I've rather been an Internet hermit recently, which, once again, I'mma try to fix. Here are the big things that happened.

• I met sasha_lilyrat! This is a Big Deal, obviously, given how long we've been in contact and the general unlikelyhood of us being on the same side of the Atlantic, in the same place, at the same time. I took the ( Read more... )

Finally got my hands on Witchfinder, which I didn't really like enough to keep buying, but it did inform me that B.P.R.D. is doing another 1947 run. Squee! I hope it has more of creepy-Soviet-doll-girl. The proto-Cold War being played out by the US and USSR's paranormal forces was more interesting to me than the occult Nazi fighting. B.P.R.D. 8 ( Read more... )