That is what a lady shouted as she waved her hands at me when I was walking into a church last night. It was the first time I'd been inside a church in almost ten years. It made me think, whoa, church has really changed since I was last there! I actually feel like I almost have too much positive energy these days. I am struggling to keep my ( Read more... )

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I have been having the best days ever lately. My new philosophy about life is that every day when I wake up I have to decide what would be the awesomest thing I could do that day, and then I do that thing. I am of the opinion that more people should try this plan.


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So I've been thinking about robots. I guess I mostly feel the same way about robots that I feel about anything associated with representations of The Future- a healthy mix of "I can't wait until that's what life is!" and deep skepticism ( Read more... )

To recap: when we last spoke I was simultaneously so bored with everything and yet riddled with the worst anxiety of my life. It was lame.

If only for the sake of this quest I'm on to Get Inspired, I thought I should write about the thing that makes me amazed enough to want to spend the next 5-7 years of my grad school life thinking about it. ( Read more... )

My comparative politics professor used to say that if you can't say something in two sentences it isn't worth saying. At the time I was all, "who are you to deny me nuance, asshole!", but increasingly I am coming to believe that the world would be a better place if we were all more adept at saying as much in fewer words. Despite two semesters of ( Read more... )

I kind of can't believe that in a month this won't be my home any more. In a month, I will have a new home, and it will be in a new city, and I will be a graduate student. Those are all really weird things to think about. Time is so weird, you guys ( Read more... )

i. Growing up, my father desperately tried to instill in me a fearlessness of things mechanical. If there were tools to be used, I was to be there learning these Extremely Valuable Life Lessons of tablesaw operation or how to change a flat tire or the art of roof reshingle-ry. As a child who clutched to proper femininity like my gender life raft, I ( Read more... )

How Obvious Is It That I Feel More Intellectually Isolated Than Ever Before In My Life? Also, Some Stuff About Race ( Read more... )

You know, I should have turned 22 years ago. I keep declaring that 22 is going to be the year of things. Year of getting on with life! Year of eating breakfast! Year of regrets I don't regret! Year of the whim! So far is is proving to actually be the year of many of these things. Also of tan lines and of reading things in contextually inappropriate ( Read more... )