For the first time in 26 years, I went to a gynecologist. I cried a little, I tensed up a lot, but I did it, and I made it through.

Today I put in my Diva Cup by myself successfully for the first time.

I hope I keep marking new "milestones" throughout 2013.

My friend Hunter Deely died on my birthday, August 15, 2012. Some of you were friends with him. Some of you took classes with him, poetry, cultural anthropology, linguistics. Some of you went to Guatemala with him as part of the Kaqchikel course. Some of you organized with him, fighting for justice for workers on Tulane campus. Some of you ( Read more... )

Arriving in Lakeland, my head instantly feels one hundred pounds heavier under nostalgia and accompanying sadness.

it's a 3 for 1 day ( Read more... )

too deep, too fast with a sweetheart with too little experience to recognize i'm a bad idea. or maybe i'm underestimating him ( Read more... )

Is it super-bitchy of me to be irritated with this person ( Read more... )

i've been getting a little too cute with myself, and the crash is hard. gotta work on that.

Ugh, sort of in the vein of my last post, today I had a moment in stats when I was overcome by the fact that I don't really understand it or what we're doing and was extremely frustrated. So I got angry, and when I get angry, it makes me even MORE angry to realize that there's no acceptable way for me to express that anger in public other than ( Read more... )

What is possibly one of the personality traits/patterns that is dragging me down the most is my perpetual "grass is always greener" outlook on life. It makes me want to be doing everything I'm not; it makes me want to master everything and be continually dissatisfied with how much I have invested in certain activities, projects, careers, ways of ( Read more... )

weekend #baddecisions 2: electric boogaloo ( Read more... )