A very merry unbirthday to kernezelda and
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I was poking at an LJ comm the other day in which people were commenting with their Facebook identities. Rationally, I can't think of anything wrong with this (it's a public comm, after all, and if other people want to link their LJs and Facebooks, so be it), but I was still kind of squicked out, and I've let it be the thing that pushed me over ( Read more... )

Via kernezelda, this is one of the more poignant things I've read about the oil spill: But this fear. This hysteria. This horror. It is not irrational.

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A very interesting article about how self control may be exhaustible. If this is true, it explains SO MUCH about my life! How I can be a productive academic OR a balanced human being, but never both at ( Read more... )

1. Grading is FINISHED!!!!!!!!! Well, not entirely, but the exam marking is finished, and that's the part that has been making my brains leak out my ears the past few days. Note to self: next time you think "oh, exams go quickly, even when they're essays," remember that THIS IS NOT TRUE when there are 120 of them. Next time, I will include multiple ( Read more... )