So I watched the video of 1D covering Teenage Dirtbag and then I died because my heart exploded into a million sparkles. Though I wonder if any of the audience knew the song or if it was like the time Dashboard Confessional covered El Scorcho and there were only about five of us singing along ( Read more... )

- I have a cold. I always get a cold about a week before my period (no, I have no idea why) but I cannot afford to have one now when I need to cook. I'm going to break out my mom's old face masks. Also, I'm loading up on Zicam, because it's what my mom's former doctor recommended, and when a leading thoracic oncologist who routinely treats ( Read more... )

- I'm banning myself from all political news until late tonight. I'm just going to do work and ignore all things political because I'm ridiculous about politics and it makes me nervous. Seriously, insipid_paragon spent two weeks with me in October 2008 and I think I spent more time reading Nate Silver's blog posts than I did talking to her. The way she and my ( Read more... )

- Blocking Tumblr, LJ, and a bunch of other sites yesterday gave me the time to read a book and a half and cook dinner for six people. And only a little withdrawal ( Read more... )

- So, people keep blogging about obsessive teen girls and boy bands and I sort of want to say, "please stop jacking my dissertation topic," but I'm also kind of relieved that there still isn't anything showing up in the academic world, and also a little happy that there's some analysis I can cite, even if it doesn't, like, offer a thoughtful ( Read more... )

- I keep hitting the Dashboard bookmark on my browser like Tumblr is going to magically appear to me. Sis-in-Law and the nieces laughed at me for a good minute and a half when I told them Tumblr would be down today. Bastards. ETA: AND IT'S BACK. I'm way too relieved ( Read more... )

- Niece C and Niece J introduced me to this amazing song by Varsity Fanclub. In it, the narrator describes sex with his girlfriend's cousin, mother, and, possibly, brother (it's inconclusive as the song ends.) The chorus? "Spank that shit." That's it. It is trainwrecky gold. There's even an acoustic breakdown. I wouldn't make anyone listen to ( Read more... )

- I'm watching NSYNC videos and, good lord, do I want some present-day JC/Lance. (OTPs never die.) Like, they'd be hanging out more and then drunkenly hook up and Lance would be like, hey, that six months they spent hooking up a dozen years ago was actually pretty awesome and maybe he doesn't have to fuck every cute bartender/personal trainer/actor ( Read more... )

Remember when I said I was going to live blog the Up All Night DVD? Well, I waited until I could actually tell them apart to do so, and then just went for it with no regard to actual academic value. So, this is more… subjective than I was planning.

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- I was reading the acknowledgements in the back of Feminist Ryan Gosling and I recognized the name of one of the professors she thanks as a girl who was a year behind me in my Master's program. Cue tears of "why have I amounted to nothing?" At least it spurred me on to faster quals reading ( Read more... )