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I have a full day of thesisizing planned, but I wanted to catch up with the f-list and do a bit of housekeeping on LJ before I dive in.  Just a few general announcements/thoughts/housekeeping thingies:

1. Dreamwidth.

Before I was on LJ, I had a Dreamwidth account, which I have been sort of lame about updating over the past few months.  However, after ( Read more... )

Creepy, and oh-so-delightful.  The artist is Jeffrey Thomas, and you can find the others here.

A couple of my favorites...

Jasmine:


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One of my friends posted this super cute essay on Facebook this morning.  It's a response to "You Should Date an Illiterate Girl," but, I think, infinitely better.  An excerpt:

"Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the ( Read more... )

In the best way possible, of course.

There's nothing like throwing a group of overworked and underpaid grad students into a room, providing them with beers and good music, and letting them go to it.  The result is inevitably a mixture of bitching about research and students, commiserating over the latest developments in relationships and dating, and ( Read more... )

It's Friday night, and I have spent the entire afternoon lolling about in bed, reading Diana Gabaldon's The Fiery Cross.  I have been on page 404 for at least 2 weeks because I haven't had any time to read, so today I decided that I needed to rectify matters.  I flew through almost 200 pages, and it was utterly sublime.

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Original cartoon can be found here:

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