Hey Seattle ( Read more... )

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, ( Read more... )

Having that insomniac "Damn, I need a good topic for the next 'Inside Out' that also needs to be something I feel like writing about" thought circle.

What the hell should I write about?

HAHAHAHA I MADE A PUN ( Read more... )

What does it mean to be a legitimate scholar?

Is it something remotely possible to cultivate on one's own, without institutional support?

Is it possible without a perfectly up-to-date lexical and theoretical background in one's field?

Can one be an amateur scholar? What defines that?

I have three days to decide whether to submit an abstract to ( Read more... )

FUCK CHRISTMAS!

Ahhh. That's better.

This morning, skimming through the internets, found this link from a friend, with the text, "What have we done? We're monsters ( Read more... )

Comment on this post. I'll choose seven userpics from your profile and you'll reply here (or you know, your own journal, whichever), explaining what they mean and why you're using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along. Also, feel free to please ask me about my icons here, as well.

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Got back from Asheville Tuesday night. The trip was lovely. The wedding was lovely. Birthday was nice, if totally overshadowed by wedding, which was actually okay, since I got what I wanted, which was lunch at Salsa's. The travel was iffy, mostly because Delta has gone back to serving both peanuts AND peanut butter crackers on six-hour flights, and ( Read more... )

Now that I've gotten the angsty wank out of my system, I'm working out some ways to actually address some of this stuff--or at least to get to a point where I feel better about it ( Read more... )