Now that the election's over and sanity has returned to the world (and I no longer have to look at Sarah Palin's bigoted face all over the news), we can talk about more interesting things.

Like: your kids are probably eating garbage at school.

It all started when I caught this interesting Times article at work this morning. Then I found myself ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or does Ms. Palin sound like a PTA mom hyped up on Xanax and Red Bull?

"...where every woman can walk through every door of opportunity..."

[liberal sitting next to me: "except an abortion clinic!"]

To Ms. Michelle Malkin;


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If I try [not very hard -- eyes open; can't close them] I still remember how his face felt all those years I was growing up, unshaven and softly cool and framed in a white coat, as I hugged him when he came home from the hospital, smelling like sickness and dying even though he was healthy ( Read more... )

[my PI, on phone] "I'll have my graduate student find someone who can fix it."

[me, staring blankly] "Sir?"

[him, now off phone] "I'm leaving for Kenya on Tuesday. If it starts smoking, just unplug it. Use the broom to pry it from the wall outlet if you have to."

[me, continuing to stare blankly]


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[while looking at infant and pet costumes online tonight, something that amazes me every Halloween and is thusly a "tradition", we came across something strange]


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Dear shipping companies ( Read more... )

I would just like to say, on the record (QUOTE ME HERE PEOPLE), that our university's president is a pompous, out-of-touch jerk who treats the student body like a group of whiny brats who make money for the university. We are an intellectual institution, not an economic one. Or at least, we should be in a normal very ideal world. I'd never vote for ( Read more... )

I haven't died or fallen off the face of the earth, really.

But I did have seven chapters of my now ALMOST COMPLETELY FINISHED THESIS to finish. And the only way to finish it in time was to swear off the internet. I played a lot of solitaire (I know, I know) in between data crunching and writing. But I was a good girl, and didn't try to install ( Read more... )

My PI bought me a printer because I rather needed a new one in my office, and it's a haul to the next building over to print stuff in my lab. Unfortunately, I think (despite switching from Mac to PC repeatedly in the course of a day, writing my own statistical analysis programs for my research, and even programming a DVD player) that I have fallen ( Read more... )