Hello, and welcome to my journal. I am a lot of things, but mainly: 20something, female, philosophy student, former NYC resident, vegetarian, feminist, something of a melancholic introvert by default, but an enthusiastic friend and mostly-heterosexual-but-maybe-just-a-little-bit-queer partner. I can play the piano badly, I read books and listen ( Read more... )

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So I saw my parents in VA this weekend, and it looked like ( this )

Yay for gay marriage in New York.

Hello Livejournalites, sorry I've basically abandoned my own LJ for the past couple of months -- things have been pretty busy over here, mostly in a good way. I'm currently in the midst of finishing up term papers, so uh, I probably won't be around notably more or anything, but hi ( Read more... )

I realize this is old and mostly boring news, but I can't help but get kind of infuriated when the so-called "liberal" news media looks ( like this... )

Jesus, I have so much Bukowski. I have, like, all the Bukowski. Gee thanks, 17 year old me.

I really ought to be packing for the impending Atlanta move right now, but I've got the TV on in the background, and I overheard a certain commercial for the umpteenth time and just couldn't take it any more. I haven't seen this mentioned on any feminist/cultural critique-y type blogs (although I may have just missed it?), which is sort of amazing ( Read more... )

There are certain "tics" of written style that tend to show up more in online conversations, or other places where people generally Say A Thing and then release it to the masses, without any third party editing involved. Some of these unchecked bad-writing-habits, frankly, drive me f'ing crazy. I know there's a whole slew of them, but the current ( Read more... )

I know I'm coming in way late to the whole "facebook privacy" thing, but, re: this -- I'm sort of confused by these quotes about what Zuckerberg "believes." Can't he just, you know, be a dick? Does he have to have principles about this? If he does "believe" in "transparency" and so forth, shouldn't his own information be readily available ( Read more... )