"I didn't need three-and-change semesters of grad school to learn that people rarely tell the truth about themselves. I have been lied to enough times to realize that a lie, when delivered in a confessional context, is really a fussied-up truth; that people do not tell accurate stories about themselves when they are given the chance. They tell, ( Read more... )

Let me make one of your New Year's Resolutions for you, ok? Catalogue your books on LIBRARYTHING.

I am so psyched about this. And yes, I am a big geek, but seriously! Talk about utopian visions... I love it when the internet lives up to its potential.

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Newly almost entirely friends only.

(ly - ly - ly)

We can talk about it if you want.

"It is quite interesting how people can be sympathetic to a character in a novel and indifferent to people in life."

"United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the ( Read more... )

Writing a Feminist's Life: Academics and their Memoirs ( Read more... )

Spring 2005 Russian G6290 ( Read more... )

"Even at a time of war when more than 138,000 American troops are serving in Iraq, the organizers say that the inaugural celebration at the end of the January will not be marked by any noticeable restraint and will cost more than any other in history. [...] In 2001, the Enron Corporation gave $100,000 for the Bush inauguration, and the company's ( Read more... )

#1. The New Directions reading at the Kitchen at 7 p.m. tonight ( Read more... )