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[ageofscience]

Signs that I am well on my way to becoming an academic recluse:

Persistent yellow highlighter stains on right hand
Decline in personal hygiene standards
Ever-increasing library fine balance
Temporary blindness when you look away from the computer

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[sakuramochii]

you are cute.

[ageofscience]

You are!

And I just realized that your package is still in my THINGS I NEED TO GET AROUND TO DOING pile. Stamped and everything! Ugh. I need nagging to keep me on my toes!

[ageofscience]

Not sad. It's very awesome! I wish that I could go without bathing and not be incredibly paranoid that everyone around me knows what a dirtbag I am. If I could just forget, it would be so much easier!

But I could never forget becuase I am always so paranoid! Getting cleaned up in the morning is one of my favourite things. I love showering! I love washing my face! I love brushing my teeth! But lately it's been a matter of weighing the desirability of getting up to shower / blowdry / straighten my hair, or sleep. And usually I come down on the sleep side. If there's one thing I love more than getting clean, it's sleeping.

[differentalone]

see, but now everyone DOES know what a dirtbag you are, so you don't have to be paranoid anymore.......cup half full??

[ageofscience]

Always with the positivity! This is all very true! I also think that part of my reason for "coming out" about my dirtbag-dom is that now I don't have to be so ashamed any more. If someone thinks I look like garbage I can be all YEAH I KNOW, AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT HUH?!?!?

[24_7sublime]

um, next time i want an invite! i realize that i'm not overtly crafty, but you don't seem like one to discriminate. haha.

ALTHOUGH...i can knit b/c my grandma taught me when i was, like, 5. does that count?

ps, what kind of craft would judith butler be most likely to do? i'm thinking it would be something really dense and complex, like all of her writings-- damn her having to prove herself to snobby WASP intellectuals.

[ageofscience]

This is quite possibly the greatest question anyone has ever asked me! Whoa, well, I honestly think J.B. would be really into either cross stitch or ship-in-bottle making. I have no real reasons, but it would make sense!

Next crafty event you totally need to come and I will personally extend an invitation to you, okay? Usually I figure that people know when these things happen and that they are welcome to just show up, but I guess that isn't always the case. So yes. Personal invitation coming your way. We can knit up a storm and eat cookies and talk about Foucault. And it will be awesome.

[smallestbones]

i love that photo!

[ageofscience]

Yes! Everyone should give praise to Michelle! She did a fanastic job of capturing the tornado-osity of it all!!

[butserious]

one of my other academic friends is obsessed with becoming a welder.

but then, she's already one step ahead of us, not that she's taken any steps toward learning how to weld, but she's been out of school for like 3 years...

that's a start, right?

[butserious]

oh, and evidently i am emma goldman as well. although i found those questions (the options, rather) really weird and aggravating. occasionally hilarious.

[ageofscience]

That's because some of the options WERE really annoying and aggravating! In any event, it does not surprise me that you would be Emma Goldman, although I can't figure out which of the options were supposed to map up with her? What would you even do with yourself if you had ended up with Andrea Dworking or Catharine MacKinnon?!

I just want to live in a world where everyone does manual labour but chitchat with each other in really academic language! Your welder friend is welcome to join me. I'm going to learn to make horseshoes, starting tomorrow. I'll show everyone one step ahead!!

[butserious]

yeah, it wasn't really a surprise that i ended up with emma goldman, especially not knowing what the options were. perhaps i wouldn't have been surprised with an andrea davis, but i know that a dworkin or mackinnon (or robin morgan, but i don't know that she is so much an icon yet..) would have tipped me off that something in their system was miss.

speaking of manual labour, someone suggested i might be able to get under the table work doing construction (which is surprising, given how heavily a lot of that sort of work is unionized or majorly contracted out in canada), but i can't imagine that they wouldn't just laugh me off the site..