Ok, who's doing Mystery Hunt ( Read more... )

...except for the part where I never announced this lj break in the first place. whoops.

Anyway, I really am making a commitment to more updating (possibly on a schedule, like once a week or something). But before I jump into clearing the backlog, I've got a short PSA to make. badoingdoing, conana, and I are starting a reading/discussion group on gender theory, and ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I had the discipline to separate out 'topics for public consumption' from everything else, but I wanted to make a 'state of the planning' entry anyway. There has been progress, but probably not enough :/ boo, IAP. [this entry is mostly done in first person, b/c it looks weird to talk about 'we' all the time; i'm not royalty ( Read more... )

I have two posts to write that just get longer and longer, one full of awful crushing depression and the other full of the awesome things I've been up to recently. But this post has none of that, it is all about the requesting!

( comment if you want to order hair dye w/me )

I've been waffling about this for a while, but I think it's time. So: conana and I have decided that we'd like to have a public commitment ceremony/celebration of our partnership.

Note that the word 'marriage' didn't appear anywhere in that sentence( b/c we're a way too fringey for that )

oh my god, you have no idea how gorgeous it feels to be plugged into my iBook, listening to good music and editing LaTeX again.

i rode my bike to work today! it was faster than the T, and I didn't even die!

so, you thought it was hard to get into MIT? check out our entrance exam from 1869. as a general measure of how much things have changed, note that the major sections are geometry, algebra, arithmetic... and english. also, tuition was $100. T_T ( Read more... )

"Again, this is a serious offense ... I’m shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport." - choice quote from the glob ( Read more... )

apparently no one comments around here except when i talk about small children and their adorable antics. more on that some other time. in the meantime, a poll of sorts: what do you do with pretty things? so far i've heard ( Read more... )