Just checked Blackboard and found out my grade for my American Popular Culture class. I got an A+ (97.9%) overall. In the final I scored 100% which is fun. Still no news on the other classes yet.

Okay I am home. Was going to email J about all this stuff but decided since he can read it here anyway and it's not private I may as well post it here where I'll be able to find it late for posterity.

The flights were alright. The layover in Chicago was hell: 5 hours in a boiling hot airport (why was it so hot? no f'in idea), exhausted but unable to ( Read more... )

My boyfriend (bf) and I drove over to Leavenworth to do our laundry because his dryer is broken and we both need to do a wash. On the way, on a dark road in the countryside someone coming the other direction flashed their lights at us. Bf said "he was telling us there is a cop ahead, look" and we kept driving, came over a slope and there was a car ( Read more... )

I just got to thinking about a woman I used to work with at the supermarket when I was about 17 years old. She was a very trashy looking low-class older woman, haggard about the face but attempting to spruce herself up by bleaching her straggly hair blonde. Her skin had the pallid, grimy appearance that all chain-smokers share, suppurating nicotine ( Read more... )

I've watched two movies so far today. First was Romancing the Stone, which was very entertaining and quite funny too ( Read more... )

No condolences please: I’m a vegetarian

When I inform meat-eating friends and acquaintances that I am a lifelong vegetarian, many of them react as though it is a terminal disease, or a missing limb. They want to offer condolences for my loss: the loss of meat and fish from my diet. I find such a response rather supercilious and offensive. Would ( Read more... )

I posted this on FCP but then decided to put it here too for posterity.

I recently downloaded the song 'Think Twice' by Celine Dion. I know everyone hates her and she looks like a horse etc. The reason I wanted the song is because I remember when it was released. I first saw the video on Top of The Pops, a TV chart show, and remember Dion's short ( Read more... )

Do you know what bugs me? The fact that 'uncohesive' is not a real word. 'Cohesive' is an accepted and widely used word, but if you want to describe something as the opposite of cohesive, your best option is 'incoherent'. Incoherent is not a satisfying word for describing a lack of unity and commonality which is how I would like to use 'uncohesive ( Read more... )

Last night I was thinking about colours. We will never know if we all see colours the same. What I see as red others might call blue and vice versa, but we'll never know, because the only way to describe red is 'red'. Describing things which are red won't help because they would still be different colours on the same scale. It's possible that ( Read more... )

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