The great thing about compulsively reading anything that feels at all like medical anthropology is that you never lack for reading material.

The bad part is that some of your reading material is REALLY FUCKING TERRIFYING.

The book based on this article is hands-down the scariest thing I've ever read. It's also the first thing I happen to think of ( Read more... )

Since the bus between Haverford and Bryn Mawr isn't running today, my Haverford professor is personally driving by Bryn Mawr to pick the four of us who would otherwise be stranded up for class. Should I be a) grateful for her dedication b) annoyed that I don't get a perfect, blissfully lazy snow day, or c) both?

Somebody has written Left Hand of Darkness fanfic that actually reads like LeGuin.

You have no idea how surprising this is. I've done thorough google-scouring before just to prove to myself that Left Hand fic doesn't exist...because I was convinced that somebody out there would totally ruin the spirit of the story by writing Genly/Estraven porn. ( Read more... )

Current Mawrtyr-folk,

Anyone wanna tell me which week in February hell week is this year? Hoping it's February 13-19...if it's the following week I've got some tough scheduling decisions to make.

...but being done with my final paper for anthro theory and my thesis proposal sure is fabulous ( Read more... )

In the category of procrastinating while doing mildly useful things, I found the job I'd really like to have after graduation:

http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/315340-319

Health! Education! Being a cultural broker a la The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down! ( Read more... )

People,

Tonight's Swat roundsing peaked at four people, and the fourth person only stayed for one song. That's most of a roundsing with three people. Yes, only three. Roundsinging is right up there on the awesomest things ever list. Where the hell are you all?

I have to write a term paper at the end of my History of Anthropological Theory class, and my prof refuses to let me forget it. Practically every concept he mentions in class comes with the tag line of "this would make a great term paper!" Problem is, I don't think any of the million things he's mentioning would make a great term paper for me. ( Read more... )

Lots of interesting things could make this list, including the connecting cords for my camera (Scotland pictures finally uploaded, only ten months or so late), a notebook full of high school poetry and CTY musings, and my high school diploma ( Read more... )

So, people who've talked to me about geekdom anytime since...fall '06 or so,

Remember that part where I'd get all defensive and annoyed when any of you would start going on and on about how great Battlestar Galactica is in my presence? (aurelia_star, I'm definitely looking at you, though there are probably others.)

Well, matt_rah took it upon himself to show me most ( Read more... )