For those of you I didn't inform already, I have been blogging elsewhere.  I am hoping my latest post there will really get a dialogue going, and YOU should be a part of it.  Let's talk about what it means to be a man, a woman, a human being.  Tell me your own experiences of the state of gender roles, the good and the bad, the hopes and fears.  ( Read more... )

I had the most beautiful dream.  I was having a stroke, everything was mixed up and upside down, nobody could understand what I was saying and my laundry was all jammed up in a photocopier.  But two doctors finally came to help me.  One gave me an olive branch and the other one held me tightly in his arms and danced me around like a mother rocking ( Read more... )

i get it now, friends.  i recorded three songs the day i got dumped, and three more over the next two days, and it's like a magical cure for drowning in feelings ( Read more... )

Every 23rd show I am surprised the night ends so quickly and feel like a bit of a jerk because there was so many people I wanted to talk to and failed to even say hello to ( Read more... )

I'm moving next week.  (Wait, next week?!  I don't even have boxes yet.)

Anyway, I'm so relieved to be leaving this house, but not really.  It's been really difficult living here.  I feel that where you live has tremendous significance in your life: the house, neighborhood, people who share your space, all interconnected with your feelings and the ( Read more... )

for those of you who didn't have the pleasure of seeing my physics presentation today...

the electrochemical energy of the human brain runs at about 20 watts
in one hour the brain uses enough energy to boil 215ml of room temp water

- if we powered common household appliances on brainpower it would take

2 brains to power a VCR or curling iron
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so speaking of how fucked up my body is, my back went out about an hour ago.  i can't look down and it hurts to raise my arms.  so how am i going to write my physics test in an hour?  there will be a test booklet, a formula sheet, a pencil, and a calculator.  i can lift my arms enough to hold something up to the bottom of my sight-line.  if i work ( Read more... )

Discussing the menstrual cycle in biology ( Read more... )

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Perhaps my favorite PostSecret yet:


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