I tried to tell a failed human interaction that I am tired of pretending to be friends ( Read more... )

... nevertheless, I am totally depressed that today's professional behaviour meeting at work was about collegiality and not sexual harassment. Also, that they think that the lack of collegiality is in any way a new thing around here, when some of us have been suffering on account of baseless rumours for four years now ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like finding out that another "close friend" got married, didn't include you in the wedding, or invite you, or even tell you.

Nothing to remind you, that is, that you don't belong to normal human interactions and you don't have "friends."

This should be the year in which I make resolutions. Seriously. Were I such an individual (which I'm not) chief among them would be ( Read more... )

I am about at the point lately, dear journal, of rape culture fatigue. Also teaching fatigue. Also seminar fatigue. Specifically, secondary source fatigue ( Read more... )

We're not talking about a lover or a best friend or a sibling or something. Just an anonymous person who has positively influenced my life. Maybe this person is homosexual. Maybe s/he isn't. Who the fuck cares? Specifically, two things need to change: 1. Everyone needs to stop telling people that this person is gay. 2. Everybody needs to stop ( Read more... )

I have spent the evening (to no success) trying to be around people. In the end, this was my own fault; I became tired while waiting to hear from people who were considering going out and I tried to take a nap. If I had been more resolved, I probably would have napped earlier, instead of trying to talk on the phone with various other humans ( ( Read more... )

I am really not as hateful as most of them would have me believe, but can I just say right now that almost everyone is pissing me off? Even the ones which I like ( Read more... )

I am slightly alarmed that this Halloween themed LJ header appears to feature a stripper.

This coming from somebody who became excited that the officially sanctioned (and utterly garbage textbook) for class mentions scutum, and you know what else that means. Well, I'll tell you what I'll tell my students: Look it up. Too bad this book will never ( Read more... )

Lately is strange, I suppose. Thursday I was the only directly claimed diminutive, which was both bizarre and flattering. Tonight was especially surreal. I am trying to think of the details which I am permitted by time and scope to divulge ( Read more... )