it’s fun to be mentally interesting category archives
black dog
Sunday 2 May 2010 | I like a cookie
I think mine is different from Churchill’s; it’s certainly different from Robert Plant’s. For one thing, it has a lot more to do with PMS/PMDD (is this what the whole next decade is going to be like, before menopause? in which case, should I set up a Paypal button so you can all chip in [...]
the one that got away
Tuesday 20 April 2010 | 3 cookies in the jar
who will come to my defense
Tuesday 20 April 2010 | 3 cookies in the jar
You are certainly all invitated; and many of you are thanked in writing.
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i am a moth
Tuesday 20 April 2010 | someone left a cookie
It’s two years LATER I discover the Radiohead/In Rainbows/In the Basement series? And, I needed these songs THEN, Thom. I know I’m an out-of-touch dork, but you might have emailed or given us a ring. I mean REALLY.
gone utterly beyond
Wednesday 31 March 2010 | someone left a cookie
best e-card award: ms. bovary
Tuesday 30 March 2010 | 2 cookies in the jar
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birthday, with utterly meaningless german horoscope
Tuesday 30 March 2010 | 3 cookies in the jar
Holiday! *** Happy birthday! Today the Sun returns to the position it was in when you were born. As would seem appropriate with this transit, today is a day of new beginnings, and the influences you feel today will affect the entire year to come. However, this does not mean that the whole year will [...]
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sprung broke
Monday 22 March 2010 | 3 cookies in the jar
Monday morning, library, bleary. Post-spring-break. Menstrual, three ibuprofen in pocket, waiting for Café Biblioteca to open so I can go get milky half-chai to fuel the teaching part of the day. Painkiller makes overpowered with sleepy. Hungover from: nine days of cheerfully pretending I don’t have thesis and 80+ papers ungraded: hungover from: great natural [...]
entitled snowflakes
Friday 12 March 2010 | someone left a cookie
This is my new favorite blog, and I came across it via this, my new favorite post, which the Brujo sent me. The picture says everything. I half-think it was taken in the industrial, thirty-stall women’s bathroom across from the classrooms where I teach M/W/F. And I swear I’ve received that email before, too. I [...]
comps: i haz wrote them
Thursday 11 March 2010 | I like a cookie
And I managed to use beefcake pictures of Uncle Ezra AND Walt, ha ha, I win! In the end my “answers” to the three exam questions (which questions of course I parsed and haggled over and negotiated and disagreed with at their very core and defiantly refused to answer in the terms in which they [...]
