Walking down Bedford Avenue with Katie, Tasti D Lite in my stomach and still on my lips, I began to feel for the first time the excitement and possibility of living in New York, rather than simply the fear. This is New York City, which was once no more than a dream, a strange figment of my imagination, and is now the place I live ( Read more... )

I AM MOVING TO NEW YORK CITY ON WEDNESDAY. I JUST FOUND OUT EARLIER TODAY, THUS MERITING THIS ALL CAPS POST. HOLY FUCK MOTHER OF GOD THIS IS SHORT NOTICE. ANY EFFORTS TO ALLAY MY ANXIETY WILL BE WELCOME. THANK YOU AND HAVE A GOOD DAY

(and do not drink to many chocolatinis bc then you write lj posts like this)

So to summarize - Obama asked House Dems to drop family planning funds so that repubs would vote for the stimulus package. Not a single republican voted for it anyway. THE FAMILY PLANNING FUNDS COULD HAVE STAYED.

But the Lilly Ledbetter Act was signed into law today, so that's good news.

One step forward, one step back. Better than two back, I 

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in ( Read more... )

Is it weird that I feel so betrayed to discover that the office is such a conservative show? Every time I think about the end of last night's episode I gag/feel really sad. Apparently once you have your man, women aren't supposed to have any other dreams.

I'm having that feeling again, of wanting to live my life surrounded by books and typing until my wrists are sore, of microfilm and interviews and endless searches on SCOPUS ( Read more... )

Someone else on madsvassar expressed exactly what I've been trying to put my finger on regarding the kick coke controversy:

"The intensity of rankor [sic] raised over such a small choice is evidence of a profoundly stubborn apathy, a rigid sentimental loyalty to the ideal of individual apolitical happiness, entrenched in the American psyche."

Amen ( Read more... )

Electing Obama was not the end. It was the beginning, the foot in the door we needed to make change. We have so much work ahead of us, that sometimes it breaks my heart. How do I do the work I need to and stay safe? As I read about fathers in prison, so desperately missing their children, so aware that they hate them, so ashamed of the first steps ( Read more... )

+ Mr. President-Elect Obama
+ Rahm Emmanuel bringing some more hottness to the white house
+ Dutch cabins that are Mexican restaurants
+ Autopassion
+ Prison break
+ lists

- class readings that make me sad
- Vassar's response to Kick Coke
- how secretly conservative this school is
- Prop 8 Passing
- White people blaming its passage on Black voters. I'm ( Read more... )

I will remember this day for the rest of my life.

Tonight, I am truly proud to be an American.