jesse helms died today. i can without any shame whatsoever say that i reacted with unmitigated delight, and i don't make a habit of taking pleasure in the suffering or death of others. helms is the one person for whom i'll make an exception. jesse helms was a truly evil human being. this is the man who told a friend of his, a woman he'd known for ( Read more... )

warning: anyone disturbed by accounts of killing snakes should avoid this entry or skip 3 paragraphs to get to the part about cute squirrels ( Read more... )

hiho, i'm 29 today! i'm more pleased than anything else... mostly cuz i'd told myself to figure out certain things before my 30th birthday or else, and i've figured out most of them, and yay i'm going to grad skool in three months. so my twenties were slow in terms of my development, but i feel like things are shaping up. whoo! also mom is taking ( Read more... )

i am abouts to go get my beloved compadre nana_b, who is coming for a few days, at the airport. the outriders for hurricane alberto have been causing rain for the last couple days and this morning it was torrential enough to result in flooding all over the city (i saw part of a flood; trees half-drowned in muddy water where the river had gone over its ( Read more... )

eee, i've been assigned a first-year advisor at ucsc, a queer and feminist theorist (yay). she wrote to me today. i should write back. i am stupidly shy. i need to get over that. gregarious! must be gregarious, and not just at academic parties! (i am, randomly enough, pretty good at chatting people up at academic parties. go figure. childhood ( Read more... )

i found out today that my fourth-grade teacher was murdered a couple of years ago ( Read more... )

eeeeek!!! a mouse ( Read more... )

yay, i have barbecue. real barbecue, not just the grilled burgers and whatever that non-southerners (and englishers) refer to incorrectly as barbecue. real barbecue is chopped up (very) tender meat (pork or beef) mixed with a vinegar-based sauce. (sauce recipes are closely guarded secrets.) NC is known throughout the south for its barbecue. it's ( Read more... )

i have wireless! i could go out on the deck! i could even go sit in the back yard if i wanted! (of course the signal'd be weak.) it's nice today, too, 70s ( Read more... )

happy easter, peeps! (what appropriate slang.) the archbishop of canterbury says the resurrection of jesus is a metaphor, not to be taken literally. chew on that. (also, how cool is it that the head of the anglican church would come out with that? go rowan williams ( Read more... )