Had a really busy day today. I spend the workday checking in with people about my projects and teaching coworkers how to do a bunch of administrative/data-gathering tasks (which I actually find pretty energizing, especially when people say that it was helpful!), and we had a sendoff for a coworker who is leaving us to become a department director ( Read more... )

I caught all of the first two seasons and part of the 3rd before I stopped having access to it as it aired (ah, my halcyon sheet-ironing days in the Washington Room), but an early episode of season 3 really stayed with me. I recently watched it again and had Many Feelings about it.

In "Too Many Pinkie Pies", sociable and easily-bored Pinkie Pie is ( Read more... )

( in which I bitch and moan my way to a practical solution )

Am I reserved ( Read more... )

The big swing dance event Josh and I have been advertising for is today (as it is technically 1:22 AM atm.) I'm a little worried about the carpools I've organized, or at least about the ones that involve my immediate friends, but hopefully my drivers will confirm plans with me tomorrow, so I can tell all their riders where to be and when ( Read more... )

Apparently I only feel like updating when I am procrastinating on going to bed early? (I have to be up at like 4:50 AM to get on the road to Karen's high school graduation in Troy, NY in time. I also started poking around www.spacefem.com again, which made me want to try and give an account of what I've been up to. I didn't post or anything ( Read more... )

So I was thinking about Aristotle's breakdown of rhetoric (knowledge of how to apply means of persuasion in any given circumstance) into three types: deliberative (exhorts/dissuades, is concerned with what is expedient/harmful), forensic (accusatory/defensive, is concerned with what is just/unjust), and epidietic (praise/blame for subject, is ( Read more... )

Whoa what I just had back to back (mostly) intelligent conversations for the last 4 hours, not counting the last 20 minutes or so ( Read more... )

I finished re(re?)reading Hana-Kimi. It's one of the few manga series I own that I know I'm going to reread a lot more ( Read more... )

I finished reading it the day before yesterday (Grandpa gave it to me for Christmas) and meant to talk about it earlier, but due to my internet being silly, I didn't ( Read more... )