I take that back. Linguistics is not like sex. It's the other way around.
Speaking of, sex and spelling are both fun backwards.

Hold on while I find something to throw at my cat...

Linguistics is like sex: afterward, I am hungry, a little bit sleepy and filled with joy.

My required qualifications for a potential mate reads like a want-ad for a job:

Technical QUALIFICATIONS

- Must be able to show familiarity with and ability to use common bio-informatic algorithms: dynamic programming methods, sequence alignment, Databa...ses, phylogenetic/clustering algorithms; molecular biology knowledge a plus.

- Recent hands-on ( Read more... )

"No, I don't think I will kiss you. Although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how."
-Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind

livejournal is oldhat.

man, facebook me:

www.facebook.com/emmepalindrome

yahoo messenger, circa 2003.

"desiree: you have to use a word that describes me

liz: strong

desiree: my word for you is willful

desiree: why wont you name your baby desiree?

liz: cause her name is already decided :P lol

desiree: who do you admire most?

liz: you. really. if someone other than you asked me that i'd still say desiree. because i know (and ( Read more... )

 from a post i made about wren's first birthday:

http://dzogchen.livejournal.com/45184.html

"have i mentioned that wren is 16 months old now and thinking back to her very first birthday i remembered....

no one but  ( Read more... )

my date is fucked up

i hear youre losing weight, mary jane

you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

 when im sick like this, going reasonably short periods of time away from someone (peers, ex-coworkers, distant and not so distant family)  can make me feel so bizarre: accomplished, disgusting, strong, weak, insane, in and out of control ( Read more... )