I know it's trivial in comparison to, say, world hunger & child soldiers & animal cruelty, but I really hate when you get a box of kleenexes folded the wrong way so that the next tissue doesn't automatically pop out.

"Was it planned?" is not an appropriate question to ask in response to "I'm pregnant!"

It's rude, it's very personal, and clearly if someone is telling you, then they've decided to go ahead and be excited about it.

Honestly. I despair of humanity sometimes.

I'm reading this article about Naomi Wolf at the moment, and it's really interesting. The first half touches on stuff you probably already know re: The Beauty Myth and society's obsession with the narrow ideal of female perfection, but it's the second half that's really thought provoking.

The article touches on the proliferation of porn since the ( Read more... )

Do you think actors in medical dramas like Grey's Anatomy or ER ever go into hospital and start freaking out?

"Oh My God! Eosinophilia-myalgia! We had that on the show! It was bad on the show! Oh GOD I'M GOING TO DIE!!!!"

Basque chicken was okay - but overwhelmingly lemony. This was my fault because the recipe called for preserved lemon, and I used fresh.

Mental note: when substituting real for preserved, use a lot less real. At least in the case of lemons.

It was definitely edible, and I'm happy to eat it for lunches, but I don't think K was all that impressed. In ( Read more... )

• Read Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. Found it immensely disturbing, and critically compelling. K and I were putting up a bookshelf, and I was holding the shelf with one hand and the book with the other. Incidentally, this annoyed K to a certain degree.

Like I said, horribly, almost vindictively compelling, but it sort of reminded me why I shy away from ( Read more... )

and the math jokes keep coming!


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Math joke, particularly for the singular orbifold


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So we've finally managed to unpack and set up enough to recognise what we don't have, and what we're going to need in this house. Number one (as it is in every house) is bookshelves, because we lost a whole room full of built-ins when we moved. That is, the other house had a room full of built-in bookshelves that we couldn't take with us. But that' ( Read more... )

 I've been having a facebook conversation with my friend Lauren (incidentally the only person I stay in contact with from high school - there may or may not be a reason for that...) about how *assume elderly accent* back in our day, music lyrics were much more subtle about the misogyny/abuse/inappropriate messages.

Take, for example, the first song ( Read more... )