I am bitterly envious of everyone in the world not taking comprehensive exams today. Also: anyone who slept last night. Oh, also: everyone who is not a whiny baby right now.

In other news, why a rhino, PFLAG?

Monkey need book. Library say book lost last year. Monkey sad ( Read more... )

Max is watching MST3K Hamlet, which is, by the way, hilarious. And I was telling him how in the original performances of Shakespeare, the audience was very rowdy, etc, and often engaged directly with the actors on stage.

And then Max says, "Oh, so they broke down the 4th wall?"

What. I don't even. For all that I bitch and moan about his school, I  ( Read more... )

Tonight's dinner is a compilation of all the weird frozen appetizers I buy when I go shopping hungry. Chicken tenders, Imperial Rolls, and TGIFriday's brand cheese sticks.

Because I was worried about not giving these savory delights the culinary treatment they so richly deserved, I read the directions. Allow me to transcribe them here-

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This was the best part about officially accepting my placement/funding for next year:

As I was leaving her office, I said "Thank you, Dr. K____!"

And She answered, "Oh! Call me Suzanne!"

Finally.

Thing One ( Read more... )

Nerdery, Yay!

The  Pop Culture conference was so much fun. A hotel packed full of cardigans and glasses, I was among my people (I did wear both while presenting, actually).

It was great, and childthursday  and purple_seastar absolutely gave the best presentations in their respective panels. CTh has already mentioned Mr. Penis and his amazing mansplaining powers, but she was ( Read more... )

The group leader from Sweet Valley United Methodist Church (or whatever moniker I gave them..I like this one better, this is the new one) said, out loud, when the children (all the children!) got rowdy-

( Oh my god, are you ready for what she said? Out loud? )

I have so much to do this week, write a draft of my research paper, read for directed study, and prepare for conference presentation.

So what am I actually doing? Reading Kirk/Spock slash.

Ok, look, you all know me, you know I'm weird, and you might even have some idea of how weird. This is what I do. Bad fiction is my anti-drug. When we moved to ( Read more... )

So, I pretty much love my church. My pastor is a woman, our current seminary student intern guy is bisexual, the congregation is amazingly racially and class(ily?) diverse, sometimes there's sandwiches...basically it is all good. This church has turned me avowedly to United Methodism. Yay women, poc and lgbtqs! So hip to unequal power structures in ( Read more... )