So, St. Olaf tries to cultivate this idea of "Lives of Worth and Service" in its students.  We are supposed to lead lives of "unselfish service to others", as I believe the mission statement puts it (have I mentioned how much I hate mission statements?  Well I do.  A lot).  You know what?  I don't want to.

I am surrounded by people who are ( Read more... )

No.  No I will NOT read every single poem written by a female romantic included in our anthology.  That's absurd.  Do you know how many poems that is?  I haven't bothered to count:  there are 12 women with poems included.  We'll only end up talking about 3-4 poems in class, anyway, so what's the point?  Just because they aren't a member of the 6 ( Read more... )

 Can I just say one thing?  Single women are not a monolithic group.  I, as a single woman (or single girl, really, I'm still very young), am very different from Catie (also single), who is very different from my friend Kristin (single last I checked), and so on and so forth.  We do not all have the same motivations, thoughts, feelings, or opinions ( Read more... )

I was just thinking about this idea of the crazy cat lady.  I joke all the time about becoming the crazy old lady down the street who lives alone with her 20 cats, because, in all honesty, that's probably what'll happen.  Except maybe I'll end up the crazy lady down the street who lives with her college friends and their 20 cats, or the crazy lady ( Read more... )

 For an atheist who does not believe in the existance of a soul, I find the idea of eternity oddly compelling.  I guess it's melancholic enough to endear itself to me.

From an outsider's point of view, sheep have absolutely no individual identity.  I find this incredibly strange, and don't quite know why.  (Cows, on the other hand, do have some ( Read more... )

Just read this post over at Minnesota Monitor, and it reminded me why, if I should ever decide that I want to get married, I'm totally just having a party in my parent's backyard (I say my parents since we tend to have giant backyards).  And food from Sam's Club.  I'm cheap and I'm not religious, so it shouldn't be a big deal.  And I expect the ( Read more... )

Update:  The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker says she'll never have sex with a Republican again.  Amen to that, I say.

Also, everyone needs to get their grubby little hands the hell away from my uterus, thank you.  What goes on in there is no one's business but my own.  Why is this so hard to understand?  And trust me, uteri are more trouble than they're ( Read more... )

The Supreme Court upheld Congress's 2003 ban on intact dilation and extraction yesterday.  I am upset, confused, and horribly offended.  This is a personal attack on all women of the United States.  This is the form of abortion misleadingly named "partial birth abortion" by anti-abortionists.  The ban is absolutely condescending.  I can't even ( Read more... )

Today is International Women's Day (along with Blog Against Sexism, apparently). I'm currently reading The Beauty Myth by Naomi Watts. It mostly makes me want to curl up in a corner and sob. I wanted to post this exerpt ( Read more... )

As I walked into the library this evening, a couple of women I recognized from various women's events on campus asked me to sign a petition.  Apparently, the president of the college has refused to allow them to hold their "Vagina Carnival" in Buntrock like they have been for the past 4+ years.  The Vagina Carnival is part of V-Week, the week ( Read more... )