Has anyone else seen the iPhone commercial that bills the iPhone as a necessity for being in the wilderness? It's all, hey, there's a compass app so you can see what direction you're going on your hike, and an app that identifies the birds you'll see, and one that tells you how to avoid poison ivy! Really? REALLY?? If you need to bring your ( Read more... )

At the request of Lisa, I am returning to the Livejournal. Let's see if I can maybe keep up with it now that it's summer break. Like last time I showed up here briefly, I'm not even going to attempt to catch up on everything ( Read more... )

[I realize I have not updated in ages. I am not even going to attempt a summing up of the past couple months. I am just going to pick up as if I was never gone, and then probably disappear again into the whirlwind of this semester ( Read more... )

Amazing how much less I post when I'm not procrastinating ( Read more... )

The end-of-semester craze is starting to feel pretty manageable. Handed in the massive casebook yesterday. Not nearly the quality of work I would've like to produce, and I spent the whole class thinking of things I wished I'd remembered to say, but hey, done is done. Sunday night I slept 2.5 hours, Monday maybe 3.5-4 (which felt like a lot ( Read more... )

At most of the contra dances I've been to, women have outnumbered men. I greatly prefer dancing with another woman than sitting out a dance, so it's never been too unusual for me to have a female partner. But I always thought of those dances as throw-aways - if there was some particularly awesome figure it might be fun, but I was resigned to the ( Read more... )

This evening after class I hopped on the MetroNorth out to Westchester to pick up my car Babe so's I can leave for my parents' for Thanksgiving as soon as I'm done with school tomorrow. Had a nice little dinner with the great-aunt and was ready to leave her house about 8:30, home by 9, do some work on this huge project, etc ( Read more... )

It's been a good and well-rounded weekend, but...oof ( Read more... )

I'm in one of those stressy periods where I ricochet rapidly between "OK, this isn't that much work, it's totally manageable" and "OMG HOW AM I POSSIBLY GOING TO EVER FINISH ALL THIS?!?!" Tasks to be accomplished before the end of the semester (December 11) include:

-Researching and compiling actor packets for Freshwater, a play going up in ( Read more... )

On the subway coming home from contra dancing tonight, I got into a rather lengthy discussion about educational inequity and abstinence-only education with an astoundingly mature, articulate, and rational home-schooled 16-year-old. It was really amazing. The kid is almost 10 years younger than I am but we talked as if we were peers about some of ( Read more... )