I had a disturbing dream last night. My cat was outside, playing in the yard and in the very large balcony that was in my dream. And then suddenly there was a bear outside, chasing her. And I couldn’t go out and get her because the bear would have eaten me. And he was running […]
So today they did a little orientation for the new first year students. They didn’t have one before, and I suggested very strongly that this be changed. It was quite what I would have liked to have known or have told to me. It’s a little early — most leases haven’t started yet — and […]
As usual here in Canada City, half of the roads in town are under repair this summer. (Weather conditions make it impossible to do construction in the winter.) This time, it’s the highway that goes NS through the city.[1]
So all the little orange detour signs have sprouted like flowers. Including — my favourite — […]
Note: I neither intend to have children nor intend not to. At this point, I do not want any. This may change, but it may not. I generally only like children who I am related to (siblings or cousins). What this means for the following I do not know.
I have commented on the childfree/childed […]
I lied. More posts.
Tonight at dinner, my father shared his opinion. That if you were really raised an Orthodox Jew, you couldn’t help but feel that any other form of Judaism was fraudulent. Since I am really a Reform/Reconstructionist (atheist) Jew[1], it irritates me that my father (raised Orthodox) considers my entire family’s religion […]
In what I swear will be my last post for a while because I need to wake up early to drive back to Dullness (with my father, so he can drive while I sleep for a few hours, and then we can both sleep, and then I can drive while he sleeps. We both sleep […]
Two posts at Dan Drezner and Kieran at Crooked Timber about conferences.
I am taking them to heart. This part in particular felt just like some of the conferences I’ve been to:
Attending an academic conference is like being a teenager again. This is why they can be so awful. You hang around trying to […]
Go read Matthew’s post about Hummer license plates and blogging lightbulb jokes. Try not to make any yourself. Then go and read the post that first sent me to his site (via a link-free friend). It’s terrible, but funny in that sort of way.
This Zits comic just sums up some of those days. Not, as it happens, today.
I read something a few days ago that stuck in my mind. I don’t remember where I read it (other than online), but it went something like this:
“Young feminists striking back at the patriarchy by keeping their father’s names . . . ”
Except it was snarkier.
It annoyed me. I refuse to […]