So the other day a friend showed me the itap (T9) feature on my phone. No, I had never used it before. I was screwing around with it this morning curious to see what words were and were not in the dictionary. I was pleasantly surprised to see some esoteric words - esoteric, at least, by colloquial standards. Some of the choices about what was ( Read more... )

The scene: physics lab ( Read more... )

I would like to take this time to recognize and appreciate the fact that I have absolutely wonderful, wonderful friends. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who has participated in team Naomi as it has been dubbed.

I'm actually writing about the Nuer in my paper for anth 83. My reasoning; if you make me write a pointless paper about Anthropology I am going to make you read through descriptions of ceremonies you've had to read about until you were bored to tears of African herding cultures.

Why oh why does Jim insist on having me sing alto now in both ensembles??? Shame on all you mezzos sitting pretty in the soprano section!

In taking one of the core courses for my anthropology major I'm reading about the evolution of ideas about race I came across a statement in passing about the persistance of racial "research" by organizations like the Pioneer Fund. Curious, I looked up said fund. As it turns out, these people are supporting all kinds of "studies" attempting to ( Read more... )

I just discovered movies of Margot Fonteyn on utube. There goes my gpa...

The flesh is willing but the arches are weak...

Because much more importantly, I got to eat Chinese food with awesome people I haven't gotten to hang out with almost at all this semester. And it was lovely.

When I was five I wanted to be an anesthesiologist. Now I want to be a ballerina.

Don Quixote was marvelous.