Via woot.com, I found this: http://liana.tumblr.com/post/95793665/your-npr-nameRead more... )

So I know things aren't looking great in California. And I know I can't adopt the bebehs in Arkansas, or get married in Florida ( Read more... )

A) I'm sick ( Read more... )

So I spent last night at Zach's place, after Erev Rosh Hashanah services. Zach lives in the liminal but gentrifying space between Crown Heights proper and Prospect Heights proper, so seeing Hasidic men on my way to the subway was both surprising and unsurprising - it's Rosh Hashanah, they ought to be in services, and aren't they a little too much ( Read more... )

If you saw my post earlier today entitled "On Diversity", you are on my teaching filter. If not, then you are not. If you are not, and would like to be, comment below and I will add you to the list. If you saw it and have decided that ruminations on teaching undergrads is not your cup of tea, comment to that effect and I'll remove you.

:)

Police Deliver Baby Jesus At NorCal Gas Station

In other news, I have to teach in 7 hours and I can't get to sleep.  Blah!

I was never a huge Obama supporter. I was trying to convince myself to go O. It's hard. He's not near my politics, he's not a liberal, and I've disliked the discourse around him from the onset of this election season (for which he's not responsible, but to which he has not contributed a whole lot of good ( Read more... )

Or even step foot into that sleezy store ( Read more... )

whose "I kissed a girl" song is 180 degrees from Jill Sobule's classic of the same title...   angsty straight women wishing they were gay so they could be closer to their fellow femaled friends is really an underexploited genre, really.

Anyway, courtesy of Pandora (who, with some tweaking, is becoming a slightly better music source), and via ( Read more... )

I've had a really awesome birthday this year. Special thanks to Zach :)
Thanks for all the good wishes!

25 was a pretty good year. Here's to 26!

PS. Check out the super cool LJ gift I got from my friend Chaya. You can see it on my user info!