Hey all--Would someone please tell me how I can put my picture up here?? I've tried it before like 100 times, but I can never get the dimensions exactly right. I guess my problem is that I can't make my pic thumbnail-sized. Any suggestions?

Ants are taking over the grad student lounge in the Religious Studies Department! I'm being attacked by thousands of them even as I write!

Has anyone else with Cingular phones (or without, for that matter) had this happen: You get a call. You look at the caller ID, and it's your friend's name. But, when you answer the phone, it's not your friend. You have no idea who it is. The person has no idea who you are. They are just as confused as you--theywere calling their friend, but got you ( Read more... )

I'm totally losing it today--so stressed with teaching and studying and personal issues. AAAAAAA!

I just got the following piece of junk mail in my mailbox:

"You've been selected to enjoy PLAYBOY for just $1 an issue, our absolute lowest price!"

Man, Playboy totally wasted those advertising dollars....

Ok, so I wake up every morning very, very hungry. Yet the thought of any solid food turns my stomach so much that I don't eat. I often won't eat until 1 o'clock, having gotten up at 6:30 a.m. So, when I do finally eat, it is a blow to my system. That's not as gross as it might sound--all I mean is that I get really, really tired because I'm ( Read more... )

So, the school year has finally started at UCSB and I'm really, really busy. I just taught my first section of Native American religions today, and I'm pretty excited about it. The students actually seemed interested! hehe. And, they were *all* there on time. Most were even there before class started, which is a big deal because class starts at 8: ( Read more... )

I hate breaking up. I hate being dumped, and I hate dumping someone. I just had to break up with a guy I've been seeing for two months. I feel about 2 inches tall. This sucks. It sucks because I really do care for him and had no desire to break his heart. And of course it goes without saying that he is hurt, and that he is certainly more hurt than ( Read more... )

Ok, so I just finished watching "The War at Home." It’s Fox’s latest sitcom. The plot goes something like this: a closed-minded U.S. Everyman tries his best to adapt to his open-minded, much-more-attractive and much-younger wife, his ambiguously gay son and his (somewhat ambiguously) sexually-active teenage daughter. His youngest son, who is maybe ( Read more... )

Ok, so now FEMA Director Michael Brown is being removed from his post because of the slow response of FEMA to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Good? Bad? Shifting of blame? I don't know, and that's not what I'm concerned with. What I'm concerned with is the following (from Read more... )