There's an article on genderqueer students at women's colleges in today's NY Times Magazine. As far as I can tell (as someone who's not in the trans community), it's a really great article, sensitive to the idea of a spectrum of gender identity. Gender and women's colleges were big issues on my mind when I was 17, and I wish this sort of discussion ( Read more... )

I'd like to share this quote. You may all have seen it, but I like to reread it anyway.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most ( Read more... )

Tuesday is Nick's birthday, so we're both going to Death Guild on Monday night (or really, Tuesday morning). I encourage other people to come too. I enjoy it a lot more when there are people I know there, and Nick would love to see people ( Read more... )

Nick and I always get Clover organic milk. We use the empty cartons to hold food scraps, then bring the whole thing out to the streetside compost bin. So I was sad to notice that they'd added a plastic screw-cap to the carton last month ( Read more... )

I stopped by City Hall on my way to lab this morning. After a pleasant wait, I solemnly swore that I would support and defend the constitutions of my state & nation, and that I'd well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter ( Read more... )

( photographic evidence of crazy birthday hack )

I woke up this morning in a chilly bedroom in Connecticut, rejoicing in my warm wool socks. The world looked fuzzy until I put my glasses on, revealing the fuzz to be thick white snowflakes falling in front of the dark pine trees. The ground is covered by a layer of new snow deep enough to conceal the grass. A shaggy brown horse, happily retired, ( Read more... )

I'm going to the Gaskell ball tonight after the Sox game. First time in a year. And this time, I'm wearing a dress ( Read more... )

I know baseball is only a game. I know my team got where they are today by paying absurd amounts of money. I know that for all the fan loyalty, half the players will be on other teams next spring ( Read more... )

Nick invited friends over for dinner last night and went all out on the food. It was amazing: tasty, colorful, varied flavors and styles, and it all worked together somehow. (And all vegan, except for optional cheese in a few dishes.) I think he made Morrocan chickpea stew (with olives and carrots), butternut squash gratin, roasted winter ( Read more... )