so i'm writing a take-home final about overcoming 'overcoming' or overcoming cultural constructions of people who "overcome" disabilities to live "normal" or super crip lives. the ideas are fascinating and its a fun conversation to have but i feel so limited by what i can even express through the English language. i started right off the bat with ( Read more... )

i find it hilarious that somehow through a combination of wet clothes and feeling cool i have managed to redress myself in exactly what i was wearing yesterday. go me ( Read more... )

um yeah so (good thing i start most of my entries with some variant of that phrase ( Read more... )

but now i will as i have a lot of very important procrastination work to do! i have to write an 8-10 page research paper for my geography class, and somehow, even though i have almost 12 pages of notes for said paper, the thought of writing 8 pages is kind of daunting. (i don't know what my problem is... i wrote a 15 page research paper in ( Read more... )

rainy gray weather is ushering in the new year in madison. gross ( Read more... )

my apt randomly has internet today. w00t. i came by to paint the buffet dad and i built and check the status of our internet cause the people we were planning on paying (mad city wifi) have been working on our neighborhood ( Read more... )

i spent pretty much the entire day out canvassing with fair wisconsin... (fairwisconsin.com) in McFarland of all places. considering how shy i am and how much trouble i can have talking to people it wasn't actually that bad. of course i was thrilled every time no one came to the door and i got to just drop some literature and take off, but most ( Read more... )

well, at 9:52 i've already accomplished everything on my to do list for the day. granted all that was on that last were a few phone calls. now what to do with myself for the rest of the day ( Read more... )

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while being home it has come to my attention that my father has maybe three tshirts that i aprove of, and about five million i wish he would get rid of. since i bought him two of the three i like, and the third was a gift, it is evident he is not going to change ( Read more... )