I've never been a sports fan, so I never paid that much attention to sports team logos and mascots. I became aware at some point that naming sports teams "the Indians" or vaguely Native American/American Indian-associated things like "the Chiefs" or "the Braves" was a thing. I never liked the thing, and I agreed that those Native-themed team ( Read more... )

I'm at a really weird place in my life right now. My career is moving forward, and I feel more mentally healthy and stable than ever before, but I'm not making friends in my new town (is it still new by the end of my second semester?) as easily as I did last time around. So I could really go for some nerd bonding, even if it's only online, just ( Read more... )

I'm having a huge amount of anxiety about what I'm doing as a graduate student today. I feel like I should post about fun fandom things to help myself feel better, but the anxiety birds won't stop squawking at me. Or I should post about serious political issues, but so much as looking at a serious political issue tonight feels like looking into a ( Read more... )

I've been struggling to climb out of this pit for the last two days, and I think I'm finally getting somewhere. I was actually a little bit productive today, and I'm starting to feel excited about starting my experiment next week instead of just feeling scared ( Read more... )

I've been feeling guilty lately because I've been neglecting Dreamwidth and LJ posting, and I can't rightly blame it on being too busy with grad school or too distracted by tumblr. The truth is, I've been in a psychological hole for a while now. I've had time but not enough energy or spirit to make use of it. I am determined to do really good ( Read more... )

I'm back where I should be now. Nothing went wrong, but I've been super tired. I did get out to church today, but I went right back to bed after it was over. (Going to my new church again was SUCH a relief-- I was so pathetically lonely while I was back in the place that everyone except my mother still insists on referring to as my "home," and I ( Read more... )

I'm on my way back from the holiday trip. Things went okay, I suppose. It was not all happy times, but some good came of it. I got to watch The Hobbit and Les Miserables with my mother, and I was able to buy nicer-than-usual gifts this year AND give them in person. Also, I got drive through Appalachia on the way back and stay at a hotel with an ( Read more... )

Well, I'm on my way to my mother's place for Christmas. I spent most of yesterday's daylight hours driving, and I'm getting ready to get back in the car. I should make it there sometime this afternoon. I'm excited about spending time with my mother, and I'm happy that I'll get to visit my grandmother again (we were worried that last year would ( Read more... )

I sent in my voter registration today, plus paid some bills, cleaned the lab bench I'm going to use, got started on my proposal for my first project, finished and turned two assignments for class, did some work on another one, AND mopped my floor. Then I noticed that it wasn't even as late as I thought. I am not sure how I'm getting so much stuff ( Read more... )

I've made my big move and gotten mostly settled into my new apartment, bought and assembled my own furniture for the first time, opened a new bank account with no maternal assistance, and done about a fourth of the ton of paperwork I have to do to get everything in order for the semester. I have more paperwork to complete and a second graduate ( Read more... )