Hey kids! If any of you reading this live in the United States and haven't yet emailed your Senators to tell them to oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment, it would make me really happy if you did so. Especially if you live in Indiana, Ohio, Louisiana, Alaska, Nebraska, Arkansas, North Dakota, or South Dakota. Tell your families and friends! I ( Read more... )

in no order except what my brain randomly produced them in:

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  Go to Saturday Market and pick up our first CSA box! Woo! (done as of 3:30 PM Saturday)
  
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  Share said box of veggie goodness with theshytiger
  
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  Get groceries: laundry soap, shampoo, conditioner, sundried tomatoes, and maybe others depending on the contents of the CSA box (mostly done as of 7:15 PM ( Read more... )

( What not to do when you're a phone solicitor calling any number where you might end up talking to me: a rantlet. )

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  Laundry
  
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  Clean cat box
  
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  Tutor my last student of the term at 1 PM (number theory, and find out how her analysis final went) This is about half-done, since it turns out her final got rescheduled, so we're meeting again tomorrow.
  
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  Maybe stop by the Glenwood and celebrate that I'm done tutoring for a bit and drop hints that I'd like more hours now that I've ( Read more... )

( I haven't done a bulleted list in awhile. )

This time, with less good news.

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  A little quote from Inga Muscio (author of the classic Third Wave feminism for Second Wavers text Cunt and I think this is actually an excerpt from the afterword to the 2002 revised and expanded edition of Cunt):
  ( Americans remind me of survivors of domestic violence. )

Okay, so last week I realized that I'm literally wearing through the soles of my old hiking boots, which are almost six years old. I've been wearing them as sneakers since my last pair of sneakers died, but that was supposed to be a temporary solution until I got new sneakers. Then the REI outlet catalog came in the mail, and I thought, "Hey! I ( Read more... )