Well, I never blog anymore, do I? I blame the Facebook, and how evil and mesmerizing it is... of course, it doesn't help that so much of the life of my department takes place on FB, making it impossible to just put the thing down. I regret LJ, though - remember the days when blogging was more or less the norm, and lots of people actually wrote more ( Read more... )

fegs, but hoo can a'body bear t'stay inside, derf and fremt, studyin' lang poetry in guid herty scots and borin' gleeksome scribblins aboot the history o' scottish nationalism when it be sae luvely aroon and abune wi' the golden sun gleetin' and blinterin' i' the lift, owre the yirdly roon'? nae me! nae! geylies glegsome tho' i be, i canna take it ( Read more... )

so GUI design recently has been moving in directions i really don't like. the new LJ GUI and itunes 7.0 are good examples of this. what's with the blocky vaguely 80's-looking fonts and the solid thick bars of colour and all this crap? i'd been enjoying the sorts of designs which've evolved since 2001 or so. bah ( 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... )

once again i resort to vsw's alphabetical style for my posting.

a) it is fucking snowing outside right now. well, ok, just brief flurries. but still. it's like 30 degrees fahrenheit. this shouldn't surprise me, cuz it's march in england, but ... damn, i have mixed feelings about going home in some ways, but i cannot fracking wait until i'm in the ( Read more... )

got more good news today, or rather, possible good news, which is that the agency which deals with amex finally called me back and said they'd send along my cv. so i'll know next week if amex is interested. (they need bilingual french/english speakers.) so there's once again a slim chance i'll be able to stay in england ( Read more... )

so i'm still sick. today makes a week. maybe i'll never be well again. one hopes that's not the case. i did leave the house for a few hours to go have tea with a friend who i never see cuz she lives in france now, which was nice, but it was so damn exhausting. now i'm in bed and i have no intention of getting back out until tomorrow. i was so ( Read more... )

ah, the joy of apps. i just wrote to CM at mills asking for recommendations. and forgot to tell him the deadlines. aargh. and woke up too late to go to sussex and try to track down some goddamn professors. god, i hate sussex right now. hate hate. how am i supposed to get into a fucking phd program if i can't get recommendations? a rec from sussex ( Read more... )

ah, armistice day. hooray for peace in WWI! my grandfather was 13 years old. he nearly died in world war I, of yellow fever i think. he was very very ill, and the morning after his fever broke the doctor came and told him, "i thought you'd die during the night" (using the "vous" form, which adults use to use even with pre-teens). papy told me that ( Read more... )