Friend: Have I got a story for you!
Chelsea: What is it?
Friend: What a story! I can't wait to tell you!
Chelsea: What? What is it?? Tell me!
Friend: No, I can't. I'm on the bus and it's somewhat risque. 
Chelsea: Oh?
Friend: Oh yes. QUITE risque, and quite scandalous, too!
Chelsea: Oh?? Come on, tell me!
Friend: No.
Chelsea: What?? But--
Friend: You'll have ( Read more... )

When I was an undergrad, my boyfriend asked a grad student to write a letter of recommendation for him. Grad asked Boyfriend to just write one for himself, which Grad would sign his name to. Boyfriend wasn't sure what to write, so he asked (read: bullied, demanded) me to write it for him. I finally caved and wrote a two page fawning commendation, ( Read more... )

This reminds me of the attitude that the OWS protesters were supposed to have:

"But why, if you are so clever, do you lie here like a sack and have nothing to show for it? One time you used to go out, you say, to teach children. But why is it you do nothing now?"

"I am doing . . ." Raskolnikov began sullenly and reluctantly.

"What are you doing?"

"Work ( Read more... )

On the way home from the grocery store I walked past a rottweiler. Dogs around here often get out from their gates and wander around, but it was pretty clear that this guy was not just skipping out for the day. He was a nice looking dog... except for the fact that he was starving to death. He looked like he'd crossed the street and decided the ( Read more... )

Nightmare. 

Deontic Logic is a branch of logic that attempts to provide a systematic way to describe what sorts of claims follow from deontic claims-- claims that have normative content. Basically its an attempt to describe the logic that underlies our moral beliefs and guides our moral decision making. It mostly deals with Ought/Obligatory claims and with ( Read more... )

I think baby kitty just shed her summer coat? Like, all of it, at once. On me. Ew ( Read more... )

Chelsea: i see you're calling in references for friends looking for jobs
Sam: of course
Sam: i want to help them and i want referral bonuses 
Chelsea: thats awful nice of you
Chelsea: i could probably use some unshifty friends who were willing to vouch for me
Sam:you need less shifty friends. shifty friends arent good
Sam: its hard to find stuff, and ( Read more... )

DRIVING TEST ONE ( Read more... )

Mom: we're not leaving this house until you wash those bruises off!
Chelsea: you're no fun!