if you could somehow combine these .gifs, it would accurately reflect how i feel right now


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For future reference--both Mercy Warren and Hannah Adams' fathers wanted to be more than just farmers.  Mercy Warren's dad self-educated and became a lawyer, successful enough that he could hire people to run the farm for him.  Hannah Adams' dad wanted desperately to be a book merchant/librarian so he rented the farm and opened a shop.  One (Warren ( Read more... )

‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are taught about Benedict Arnold, the first traitor in America, but I’ve never heard-until I went onto the [National Women’s History Museum] Web site-about Deborah Sampson, the first woman to take a bullet for her nation. She was 21 years old in the Revolutionary War. She ( Read more... )

My thesis defense is Monday April 30 at 3:30pm.

That's only two days after the damn thing is due.

I am going to need so much sleep to be capable of human speech.

Considering I am on the verge of historical laughter* right now, and there's still about a month to go, I might just have to hibernate that whole weekend.

Jesus.

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I once was very offended by a font in a book about women.  It had all these curlicues and was pretty frilly.  I was offended because no one would do that in a work about men.  In a work about men, the font would be clean and rational--masculine, if you will.  But here I am, and this is really what I want.


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I literally feel like I haven't got a brain, or like it's lost somewhere.  I might have thoughts, and if I'm talking to people they might come out, and if I'm pressed to write a paper, I might be able to sound intelligent, but when it comes to, like, actually having things to say, most of the time nowadays, when I'm quiet, it's because I literally ( Read more... )

I was thinking of starting a research blog so I can funnel all my random thoughts there rather than on tumblr or facebook.  What do y'all think?

So, many of you remember my pointless whining in my last entry.  That got me nowhere, but my e-mail to Carol about how I really, honest and true, want to do an Honors project if it's not too late did get me somewhere, and I was asked this afternoon if I had any "substantive" ideas.  Now, I'm not sure exactly what she means by that.  I never have ( Read more... )