I finished my essay on tuesday at 23.30. YESSS ( Read more... )

We're back from the woods! It was so great being literally in the middle of the forest for a few days, and getting to know Laura's grandmother. What a fantastic and wonderful woman! She's so open minded and tolerant and just accepting of everything and everyone. We ate pretty much constantly and drank tons of coffee and walked in the snow ( Read more... )

Everytime I have the overpowering urge to write I never have anything to write on, so I find myself composing lines, words, pearls that are forgotten almost as soon as I have thought them. And when I finally get to someplace where my words would be available to me, I feel blank, uninspired, wordless ( Read more... )

So it's 8am. I have supposedly been working on my paper for the past hour, but i've *really* been drinking coffee and chatting online....but it's still PITCH BLACK outside.

oh, check out my friend's blog.. you can see what it looks like outside even once the sun is out!
Saila's Blog

Oh, and I also got a new phone it's also an MP3 player. I hadn't ( Read more... )

Just to make sure I actually get stuff done:

Today I must:
1. Finish Elizabeth Grosz commentary
2. Female Masculinities (Halberstam) commentary - started
3. Read Sarah Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology

Tomorrow I will:
1. Commentary on Sexual Citizenship articles
2. Commentary on No Future (Lee Edelman) and bell&binnie article
3. read on performativity ( Read more... )

Grief, I suppose, takes on all sorts of forms. In me it manifests itself in this unreality, this looking down upon myself outside of my body, this exhaustion that hasn't gone away no matter how much sleep I get, and constantly alternating moods and feelings. That's possibly the most exhausting part: never knowing how you'll feel in the morning, and ( Read more... )

OMG I can't even express how ridiculously excited I am about school beginning the week after next. Like holy shit i'm actually a student again ( Read more... )

I haven't really updated for a while because lately my life has been mostly work, and I don't want to bore you about talk about bitchy customers or the specifics of the member contract. boooriing ( Read more... )

saila and I were going to go out for "a glass of wine" last night ( Read more... )

HOLY CRAP you guys I just got into GRAD SCHOOL!!!

In two years, I will have an MA in Women's and Gender studies from the University of Helsinki.

:) :) :) :) :) <<--- stupid grin on my face ( Read more... )