i could just kiss my mailman right now. not only did he bring to me my invitation to emily and cynthia's wedding (emily, they're beautiful! i'm very partial to the ampersand!), and envelopes full of "we're so proud of you for graduating!" money from my very generous relatives (who knew you get graduation gifts for a BA?), he also held in his hot ( Read more... )

My law school friends talk a lot about developing "law brain". In recent weeks I have similarly developed "cyberfeminism brain". It has had made me really weirded out by and critical of the internet. Hence- absence ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned, I'm working on a conference paper proposal on the use of oral contraceptives for menstrual suppression. Although paper is less about oral contraceptives themselves and more about why the idea of menstrual suppression is really messed up, in doing my research I've learned an awful lot about that little thing we call The Pill ( Read more... )

Tonight Tasha and I were sitting at Bridgehead drinking fair trade "half-sweet soy hot chocolate no whip" (her) and "soy chai latte"s (me). We felt like really gross yuppies. But appropriately so! Being a yuppie is all about being really politicized in some aspects of your life, while being simultaneously totally blind to your own class, race, and ( Read more... )

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It strikes me that I haven't yet written anything about the election! People keep asking me for advice and guidance, like I'm supposed to be some sort of expert. I know I have 7/8ths of a political science degree and all, but it's hardly so! The truth is that I've had unusually little to say about the whole affair. I'm mostly pretty ambivalent, ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was the nicest day I've had in a while. It would have been perfect aside from dual incidents of bike dude sexism. Let's review ( Read more... )

Upon waking this morn, I was surprised to see that my giant incision scab had fallen off in the night. Aside from the repulsion I felt due to having spent a whole night betwixt sheets where a mass of my own dead skin and coagulated blood was lurking, I felt happy. Happy to look down and see a leg that is whole, healthy, complete, and perfect- with ( Read more... )

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