I am a beast. I finished the poster I'm going to present at the SMAs. I haven't checked it for punctuation or anything, but it's done. I leave for Yale this afternoon.


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Because I'm sitting here trying to read a friend's thesis and give feedback (omg, why am I such a friggin' slow reader of nonfiction?) I declined G's offer to join him in watching America's Best Dance Crew.

We had really enjoyed watching all the back episodes, marveling over the Jabbawockeez and excited about the presence of Vogue Evolution, a crew ( Read more... )

Okay, so there's like a million awesome school things to talk about today. So awesome, in fact, that I have to list them. (A great opportunity for a pretentious list, too! Can this day get any radder?)

(adviser) I met with SS today. She is a total beast. I've been wanting her on my committee but she's been in the field all year and wants to KNOW ME  ( Read more... )

I had big goals for today re: grant proposal writing, a very small portion of which were actually completed. I'm about to get started again now. But I am now really really tired, despite sleeping in this morning. I think it's the flood of emotions. Despite feeling very optimistic, I was pretty anxious all day long. Then, when Guille said, "Barack ( Read more... )

So I'm relying pretty heavily on Dilemmas of Desire for my final paper in Sociolinguistics because it is only of only three academic sources that include the narratives of Latina teens talking about their own sexuality. Anyway, in one section a Latina teen who "vigilantly controls her sexual feelings" tells about how she stays away from dancing ( Read more... )

Let's talk about this video.

It's Larry Flint's controversial new thing:
The faux Sarah is Lisa Ann, who "will be nailing the Russians who come knocking on her back-door." In another scene -- a flashback -- "young Paylin's creationist college professor will explain a 'big bang' theory even she can't deny!"

There's also a threeway with Hillary and ( Read more... )

(eugenics*) So life kicked into high gear last week. I lost my laptop (but recovered it) and realized that just because I'm keeping up with class readings does not mean I'm actually keeping up. Hello research projects! I struggled madly to figure out what I wanted to do (why must theses be clear and concise? why not vague and wide-ranging?) and ( Read more... )

I assume you know the deal with Democrat NY governor Eliot Spitzer and the sex-work scandal ( Read more... )

Now I'm not an academic yet, but I'm already being warned off my research. (Mostly by professors who share my interests and have had to fight tooth and nail to be able to study them ( Read more... )

As I may or may not have mentioned in previous entries, while Guille was here I purchased a Keeper. This seems very environmentally aware of me, and fits in with the whole Goddess-y thing I dig, but in fact, the selling point of the Keeper was its price. It has never ceased to enfuriate me how much more women have to spend on "basic upkeep" than ( Read more... )