In World War I, your wounds could either be contused, incised, lacerated, punctured, extensive, multiple, penetrating, perforating, or character and cause not stated. You might have also died of dislocations, contusions, concussions, crushing(s), fractures, gases (deleterious), a gunshot wound of which kind was not stated, strains, or -  my ( Read more... )

So I was surprised recently to see that someone had commented on my LJ - which is odd because I haven't written a new post in two forevers. The comment was on something from 2006 ( Read more... )

Women and Gender Studies Presents

Katrina Kimport, PhD Candidate

"Triangles of Violence: Lynching and Homicidal Lesbians  
 in Nineteenth Century America"

Teaching  Demonstration for the LGBTQ Position in WGS & Sociology Position in

UHB    3145   
   Wednesday, March 25,   3:45-5:00 pm

Katrina Kimport is completing a Ph ( Read more... )

So I just finished the first draft of my introduction for my thesis. Seven pages of chocolaty deliciousness. Okay, so it’s really six pages of chocolaty deliciousness and one page of marshmallowy end notes. Nevertheless, a good ratio.

It feels so good to finally get something down on paper after researching it for over a year now. As usual, I fear ( Read more... )

Needle Disposal

For those who use needles for injections for any reason -

Often we reach in a wastebasket without thinking -

To retrieve a paper we  threw away by mistake -

To empty the trash, etc.

you may not see the needle

Someone just disposed of in the wastebasket...

If you receive a needlestick injury you must go through a series ( Read more... )

Or: More fodder for Dan Brown's next novel.

http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?hash=a134b7a3825ea68bb2d4cd479fa1531d&return_uri=http://www.cnn.com/video/%23/video/us/2009/01/07/moos.cute.things.cnn

First of all, it's very informative.

Second of all, it's not patroled by a bunch of buzz-kills like Wikipedia is, thus allowing for things such as this to slip through:

"Toronto also has a large homeless population, many of whom will ask you for money. If you do not want to offer them money, simply look the panhandler in the eye and say "not today ( Read more... )

So I had to print up a review of Grapes of Wrath from when it was published in 1939 for my Great Depression paper.  On my copy of a review from the Chicago Tribune there is a side article that I found amusing:

The Tribune's Platform for Illinois and Chicago
-End the Parole Business
-Build Deathproof Highways
-Make Chicago the First City in the World
- ( Read more... )

So seeing as the last time I posted a list of things to accomplish on here I actually got most/all of them done (huh, weird!) I thought I'd try it again:

Go to bank
Mail bills
Research at Lincoln Presidential Library (Damn microfilm machines make me seasick.)
Write paper for Great Depression class (Got a page and a half from the end and realized I had ( Read more... )