Quite possibly
best night of my life.
Armenian dinner and 4 bottles of red wine with my favorite professor, in the gorgeous house where I will be house-sitting next month.

She got wasted and started talking shit about everyone, including students.
Then she gave me a delicious glass of illegal mango rum.
then she salsa danced.

OK everyone ( Read more... )

I am oddly attracted to Betty Friedan in her early years of starting up NOW.
But I still don't understand why she is a stubborn little wench.

there is no way to undo the fabulous question mark that The Feminine Mystique inserted into the kitchens and bedrooms of white, suburban housewives, so why is Friedan so resistant to the exposure of her ( Read more... )

A bunch of artists have started throwing massive parties in an old creepy mill in Holyoke/ to network and hold collective shows. The party was not bad at all, with lots of potential for the future. I LOVE old creepy mills/ specifically when combined with great art [everyone has to get themselves to Mass Mocha], and I generally love 30-something ( Read more... )

Recent and semi-recent Livejournal posts have established, among many things, the following themes in my life:

1. I am not a fan of "guerrilla theater" [incendiary public acts, with or without political intent, in which the audience unknowingly participates ( Read more... )

I just finished school and got the blood out from under my fingernail.

This shit is wacky:

QUESTIONS FOR JOAN ROUGHGARDEN ( Read more... )

"A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fact sheet that focused on the advantages of using condoms to prevent sexually transmitted disease was revised in December 2002 to cast doubt on the effectiveness of condoms, calling evidence on condom use and transmission of HIV and other STD’s 'inconclusive....'”

MISSING: Information About ( Read more... )

After stumbling upon a writing buddy whom I admire immensely, it is clear that my thesis will take the form of several short stories, on and on until I die or hit 100 pages. Whichever comes first.

This position is quite unique
and therefore lonely.
abscondence will swaddle me in my abilities/ as before and before
An old terrible shoe.

I daydream about Throwing a milkshake at a moving car.

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