I've had a really shitty past couple of days; I think it mostly has to do with the weather (it rained non-stop Thursday and Friday, and it's starting to get colder too), and the fact that I've feeling like I'm going to come down with something for a while without actually having come down with something.  Add to the fact that a.) my GIS class is ( Read more... )

Because I need to start cleaning up what's on this computer and transfer stuff on it to the new one fairly soon, I'm gonna try to do these at least once a day until I'm done, and I'll be doing seven main links instead of six.  (Unrelated: I started doing this yesterday by trying to pare down my huge iTunes library.  It's not going as well as I'd ( Read more... )

I know I've been posting a lot lately, but I need to get a couple of things off my chest:

Good news: California's Proposition 8 has been ruled unconstitutional!  I'm very, very happy that gay marriage is legal in California again!  :D  Yes, the fight isn't over, but this is still something very much worth celebrating.  \o/

Sadly, y'all are gonna have ( Read more... )

Kind of a pointless post, since not much has been going on lately, and I want to do another linkdump but I'm too tired/lazy right now to do one, so OH WELL

So The Twilight Sad released a new song yesterday, and I've been listening to it nonstop since then.  It's called "The Wrong Car," it's ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY MIND-BLOWINGLY AMAZING, and right now ( Read more... )

Current favorite: Absolute Body Control -- "Figures"

So I guess I haven't had a proper update in a while; I really haven't felt like it because I still haven't been feeling all that great lately -- I'm not sick, or overly depressed, just out of it, I suppose.  My eating and sleep schedule has gone completely out of whack the last month or so, and it ( Read more... )

A lot of links I found recently that you might be interested in:

"We've Got Issues": Big Pharma might not be lying

Childhood mental illness was rarely diagnosed in children 100 years ago; since then the number and type of diagnoses have exploded; the number and type of treatments have also exploded; the medications used to treat childhood mental ( Read more... )

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Last night I went to a lecture by Peggy McIntosh; many of you probably recognize her as the one who wrote "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," which is usually one of the first essays people learning about racism and privilege tend to read, and one that gets a lot of people thinking about racial issues in ways that are essential in ( Read more... )

CURRENT FAVORITE:
Nogu Svelo! -- "Nashi yunye smeshnye golosa" ["Our Young and Ridiculous Voices"]  (thanks to edge_chan for the link)

MEMES!!!

mysoundtrackmeme ♫
♪ my thread

the I AM meme

I'll probably write a retrospective of the past year and the past decade sometime later today, just because I think it would be good for myself to sort things out and have some ( Read more... )

So I was having a bit of a chat with Climatology Nerd on Facebook yesterday, and we somehow started talking about MOQA, the campus LGBT organization, and why I had stopped attending meetings (besides the fact that they're on Sunday nights and that's when I do most of my work and I'm always too tired and lazy to go at those times anyway). We ( Read more... )