School started last week and I've already gone through two novels, a book of short stories, and a quarter of my Norton anthology. Tomorrow I get to lead a discussion about black female identity in Beloved in a classroom without any actual POCs, let alone African Americans. Diversity fail.

Does anyone have advice for headaches? On really bad days I ( Read more... )

--Others have responded to the shootings in Arizona more intelligently and eloquently than I can, especially seperis and sheafrotherdon. Just: everything they said.

--Last night we had a nighttime (read: 7:30 pm) low of 13 degrees. Right now I'm wearing a New Country women's shell that just isn't cutting it. So, I'm buying a  new coat. I like this one, or I can stop by ( Read more... )

( opinion time! )

--Public journal again. Wheeee ( Read more... )

This is how I feel all. the. fucking. time.

"I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mr. Ed. Listen -- I believe that people are perfectible, that ( Read more... )