My Christmas gift to myself was to read through this journal and tag all the entries. December is this journal's birf--I started it four years ago when I got back from studying abroad in South Africa. (I've been LJ-ing since high school, but felt that the HS and early college journal needed to be different from the Cape Town one, and that life ( Read more... )

Woke up at 4:30 yesterday morning to shower. It was supposed to 90 degrees and t-stormy in CHI, so I coated my hair with lemon juice to keep it shiny in smooth. It worked, I think.

Nick and Sarah picked up me at 5:45. It was a rainy and dark morning, but I felt very awake.

I put myself on a strict budget for the day: I was only going to spent the $12 ( Read more... )

I the last 48 hours I have ( Read more... )

Nefertiti bust is a fake!

I know I've ranted about the Night at the Museum franchise before (Hank Azaria as a pharaoh in the next one, kill me plz), but can I say this one more time?

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK AFRICANS. THEY WERE NOT WHITE/ANGLO. THX.

Will Twitter cause the next Dark Age?

My job (actually, the foundation that funds us) really encourages the use of social media. We never talk about a dangerous/dark side...

Today I helped run an outdoor fund raising event for a local senior center. All of our games were geared toward children.

Toward the end of the day, a father came up to make and asked me to fix a button. (Kids drew whatever they wanted on a small circle of paper, we have a machine to turn it into a pin). I did so, noticing that the man had made a ( Read more... )

All of my pillows and blankets have been moved to Ripon, so I've been sleeping straight up on the bumpy living room couch this whole Milwaukee weekend. But I've been so busy and so thoroughly worn-out that it hasn't been a problem at all ( Read more... )

Hey remember that when I said I was going to bed early?

I lied. Monday night I picked up Summer Shandy-s and Spotted Cows and went to Truida's. A sexy party ensued.

Tuesday was a New Moon, but it was a miserable rainy day so I just wanted to spend the whole day sleeping. I did celebrate with some of my favorite Woman Kings, however. Kaye hitched a ( Read more... )

It's finals week, but life is good.

This weekend I had World Music Study Parties in two nights in a row. Pizza Shuttle was involved each time.

New Moon Party yesterday afternoon. Lots of ladies, sitting in the sun, talking about vaginas. Saw Vagina Monologues for the third time this weekend, too ( Read more... )

I’m 75 pages into The Lonely Crowd, a really obscure book a really eccentric theology professor I had two years ago mentioned a lot in class ( Read more... )