for Halloween I dressed up as a sparkly pink unicorn zombie -- as previously mentioned; photos to come -- and went with about twenty house-mates and friends on a really fucking fun zombie walk around town. moaning for human brains and with pretty realistic corn-syrup blood on some of us, we scared a fair number of people! then we passed by the ( Read more... )

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the Philippine Catholic Church needs to shut up right now.
“Contrary to what many are saying, that policy [to end government-financed birth control in Manila] was meant to protect women, to protect their wombs from those who want to take away life,” [former Manila mayor Jose Lito Atienza] said.
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fuck I've just finished baking three things tonight: whole wheat peanut butter cookies, honey tea bread with raisins and cranberries, whole wheat maple muffins with mixed berries. these are in addition to my and my cooking partner Mari's house dinner tonight: Thai coconut rice, samosa soup, Burmese prawn curry. and those are in addition to the ( Read more... )

yesterday: went thrifting / Halloween-costume-shopping with house-mates. there I found a long-sleeved polka-dot blouse with a peter pan collar that makes me look like a grandma. I like most things that make me look like a grandma (such as giant cardigans), especially if that grandma was a stylin' lady from the '50s.

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Me in a creek.


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field ecology's imprinting me with a potent dislike of inflexible, proselytizing vegetarians. I want to cook and eat fish, dammit! I understand that you don't eat fish, and I am willing to cook tofu for you. why won't you allow me to cook fish for myself and my fellow fish-eaters ( Read more... )

where we've been going, what we've been doing every weekend for the past four weeks:


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this past weekend -- which Serge has accurately summarized as "power functions + two Marxist professors + flannel-wearing ecologists" -- the question was brought up of why ants haven't yet evolved a mechanism to come out and forage in the winter as well as they do during the spring and summer. the answer: they haven't yet been around long enough ( Read more... )