Is anybody else as disgusted as I am by the recent blood and chocolate onslaught on LJ? It just flashed me an ad claiming to be a desperate plea for my advice from one of the blood and chocolate characters. GAAAAACK.

I have now gone from being indifferent about this movie to gnashing my teeth at the thought of it. Way to go B&C publicity team!

Today in class my beloved advisor pointed out that my comments on Alignment (Garrod and Pickering's theory of priming/common ground effects) reflected what a bookish nerd I was (I had said something about how joint activity/interaction with other humans is *hard,* not easy, and therefore why would you want a theory where things like witty rapporte ( Read more... )

Oh, and over the weekend I saw this picture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art ( Read more... )

I have just decided not to sign up for Death and Dismemberment Insurance, or even life insurance through work ( Read more... )

My sister was here this weekend. She and her husband are thinking about buying a vineyard in the ( Read more... )

So with some notable exceptions that are not relevant here (but that many of you LJers already know), my two officemates are both my good friends, and without any exceptions at all, they are both highly intelligent, highly capable, superkickass women. I love this about them. It’s probably a lot of the reason why we are friends and not just ( Read more... )