"Making Sense of Abstinence" [part of Sex Week at Harvard] was more of an interactive Planned Parenthood workshop than I'd been expecting (or wanting ( Read more... )

"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy."
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"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." --Anne Lamott

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I couldn't even tell you what I did at work most of this past week, but I really was working most of the day every day.  Friday like 2 or 3pm I had finished everything that really needed to be done and I wanted a nap.  Hopefully there were will be fewer late night comfort sessions this week.  I am really looking forward to that week off between ( Read more... )

Dear Colleagues ( Read more... )

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I'm watching/listening to Harvard University Commencement afternoon activities on streaming video, and the President of the Harvard Alumnae Association just referred to "Gaudeamus igitur" as an ancient student drinking song. Who knew?Edit: They recognized the two oldest alums in attendance -- one man and one woman, both Class of 1929, both age 99 ( Read more... )

Thank god my dad wakes up at 6:25 even on weekend mornings.  I'd set my cell phone alarm for 5:30, except that I was editing a pre-existing alarm so it didn't automatically Enable.  My dad graciously agreed to drive me to the train station, so I got to have a quick shower ( Read more... )

I think I had lunch from the Global Vegetarian bar every (work)day this week.  [Italy, Mexico, Eastern European, Japan, Southern USA]  Go me with the consumption of actual food.  (As opposed to doing either the: bring peanut butter sandwich, apple, and yogurt from home every day, or buying pasta every day.)  Yeah, I think the expenditure of money ( Read more... )

I'm usually annoyed to get e-mails from Time & Space Toys, but this one amused me, despite it being a Valentine's Day promotion. Emphases mine. ( Read more... )

My dad sent me this interesting article [now behind registration lock, but I can c&p if anyone really wants it], and in wandering blogs I saw a couple other complaints about Summers bowing to pressure from the faculty.  [Stanley Kurtz & Pat Sanity]  (And yes I'm sure there are scads of such pieces.  And this is mostly to preserve the links for my ( Read more... )