Hallo there, this is me, still existing. I had a moment of inspiration earlier this evening: what if we could teach all first-year university classes with reference to The Princess Bride? It led to the following awesome conversation with my dear friend katydidinoz :

semantics: The word 'inconceivable'. Discuss

Biology: what, precisely, is the difference between ( Read more... )

I will briefly rear my head in this space to make note of a moment of child-based awesome I just overheard at the laundromat ( Read more... )

"It's always darkest right before you get clobbered in the head with a pipe wrench. But then it actually does get darker."

I know I wrote this on this journal at some point, but damned if I can figure out where, so...

Back when I was a less healthy person, I used to actively cultivate drama. I didn't realize that's what I was doing, but it was. I thrived on drama, partially because drama and crisis were familiar, and I could act on adrenaline. Over the past few years, ( Read more... )

First of all--for those of you who have, by various means, caught on that I've been something of a train wreck these past several days, thanks for your support. All of a sudden, I'm in a much better place than I was. The result has not been anywhere close to what I would have expected or hoped, but things are better ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, my life gets really really complicated, really really fast. This time, it's pretty much in an all good, if entirely unexpected and more than a little bit scary, way. But...complicated.

So, as a distraction, some random moments of blatant misogyny that managed to surprise even my bitter, hardened self*.

Example the first: I was in Toronto ( Read more... )

Be Yourselves, Girls, Order the Rib-Eye.

Not really much need, it's pretty much all there in the title, but: when did we actually start actively convincing women that "being ourselves" really meant "behaving against stereotype, but doing it because men will like it better"? Apparently, being a vegetarian says I'm neurotic, pretentious, not down-to- ( Read more... )

I've been a little less than internet active lately, and that's been a really good thing for me ( Read more... )

Well, apparently I'm getting requests as to what to write about, in response to allusions. Fair warning: not so much on the sleeping last night, so articulate might not so much be my thing this morning.

The allusion to something I was going to write about, a few posts ago, was Michael Moore and this new movie "Sicko". I hesitate to criticize Moore ( Read more... )