For my dearest, darlingest analise010:

OKAY. So the first thing to know is that while I am calling this a voice meme, it is really more 15 minutes of semi-whacked-out rambling.  I recorded it because I am home alone, and the medicine I'm taking for my sinus infection makes me sort of loopy, and I was bored.  BUT. I dunno.  It's kinda amusing?  I hope you ( Read more... )

It's been a lil while since I posted.  HOW ARE YOU FLIST?  WHAT'S UP?  I know various people have had various stressful times lately, but I hope today you all get to have some chill moments where all you have to do is drink your favorite liquids and listen to your favorite musics and pet your favorite human/animal ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is lately, but I keep coming across things and thinking, "Ooh! We should organize something around that!"  Maybe I just really need some community in my life right now.  So here's a couple of the things I've thought of.  Which of these seems interesting to you?  Which would you want to participate in?

Blind Date with a Fic ( Read more... )

WAH.  The semester is slowly but surely coming to an end.  I am this close to being done.  All that's left is teaching my last class and grading papers.

And then, of course there will be conferences and moving all my earthly belongings to California, but I'm feeling a lot less stressed about that than I was.  It'll be fiiiine.

Plus there are plenty ( Read more... )

Going back through old class notes, and I found this story in my notes from a history class about European women in the early modern age.

This is from the confessions of the Chelmsford Witches in England in 1566:
"Elizabeth Francis testified that her grandmother, whose name was Mother Eve, counselled her to renounce God and his word and to give of ( Read more... )

Today was the Super Bowl.  This means several things for me.  
1. My friends invite me to a Super Bowl party, thereby alerting me to the fact that the Super Bowl was a thing that was happening, because otherwise I would have no idea.  I know, I know, I'm a bad Texan.  But really, let's be honest, people.  The really important kind of American ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning with "Stars and Stripes Forever" stuck in my head.  Is that weird?  Weird.

Whatever.  Another weird thing: the first three or four times I saw this commercial, I laughed so hard I snorted.

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It's something about the way the guy says, "Get out the hankies."  He says it like he's doing a trailer for an action-adventure movie.  He ( Read more... )