The semester's finally over, praise Jeebus. I'm at my mom's in Georgia with nothing I have to get done immediately other than getting a full night's sleep for the first time in weeks and eat three-ish square meals a day. I've still got worries. Stuff I need to take care of in the next few weeks, things to mull over. And the fever-pitch anxiety ( Read more... )

I'm not doing a top-whatever of the year music list, but here is a list of records that I enjoyed a lot this year, including some that are (gasp!) actually new. Basically, if I just got into it this year, or if I was already familiar with it but played the shit out of it anyways, it went on the list. It's in alphabetical order by title because ( Read more... )

I'm totally brain-fried from grading Chemical Engineering reports. Strange words I don't really understand are rolling around in my head. Inerts purge...MACRS depreciation...recycle gas scrubber. But the frickin' grades are in. And I will probably never read a Chemical Engineering report again. So that's good ( Read more... )

It's been a tough last week or so. I've been super isolated, mostly because I've been busy working on school stuff, but also because I've gotten out of the habit of hanging out with most of my friends. It's starting to take a toll on me, I think. Then I got some bad news today--a good friend of mine is leaving town under bad circumstances. So ( Read more... )

I've been doing some thinking (as a result of some research for school as well as some stuff I've been reading on my own) about feminist guilt. Guilty pleasures, but also guilt about our fears and weaknesses. I'm sure there are other kinds of guilt that people experience that are similar but not just about feminism--other types of political guilt ( Read more... )

I had a dream that Maurice got lost. I started to cry so hard in my dream that I almost cried in real life, and woke myself up. As soon as I woke up I started calling out for him. He came over, but seemed perplexed and annoyed by my calling. I picked him up and squeezed him, but he wasn't in the mood and he bit me. It was worth it, though--I ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about trying to take some kind of independent study / conference course thing with Sandy Stone next semester, involving music and possibly circuit-bending. Well, it's been in the back of my mind. Then I was poking around various music forums for my Theory and Literature paper today and came across this. The last time I took a ( Read more... )

Things are really starting to get crazy for me. In the next two weeks, I'll have to turn in all my work for all three of my classes and I'll have to grade a pile of ten really thick chemical engineering reports. I've known this for a while now, but I guess coming back from the long weekend makes it all suddenly feel real ( Read more... )

Josephine Foster is my new supercrush.

The other day I was walking down Guadalupe and a cute drag rat asked, "Do you have any change?" When I said, "no, sorry," he asked, almost inaudibly, "Do you have a boyfriend?" Just another one of those weird exchanges that I don't know if I should find validating or disturbing. On the bright side, he was very cute for a drag rat, if decidedly ( Read more... )