I started out with not enough sleep, which for some reason put me in a great mood. I've been going since 8:30 and it's now 1:40. I met the real estate agent (there's a tentative date for the final sale!), paid *some* attention in class, got a great second hand compliment for my comments in my seminar (yay yay yay), got a free lunch from a law ( Read more... )

Via a comment from zestyping in feminist:

Very effective language reversal to illustrate sexism in EnglishA Person Paper on Purity in Language

A cool website that regender[s] the language in any other website. The results are touching and make me kind of wistful and sad.

I love my show,

but it makes no sense for scientists to wear high heels and slinky dresses with no pockets!

My grades for this last semester were decent. I maintained my GPA and the career placement office people told me it's high enough for Montreal and possibly even for a shot at New York. So why am I not satisfied ( Read more... )

I've always been a big fan of Deborah Tannen. I really like this article she wrote in the Washington Post about mothers and daughters, where she tries to explain the sensitivity in mother-daughter relationships. I think she captured this truth very well, and it made me cry a bit too, and miss my moms, and miss being known ( Read more... )

I had a great winter break, I felt at home with my dads and I miss them a lot ( Read more... )

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I finished the semester, I finished that last final, finally!

Now I feel worried and I can't tell about what. I hate it when that happens. I watched two creepy CSI episodes. Felt guilty about not having a proper shmira for mom. So strange, I haven't thought about that in ages.

I have this one exam left to do. And I'm not doing it. This is ridiculous. When I finish this, I'm done for the semester. Why am I doing a 48 hour exam in 12 hours?? (okay, 24ish hours ( Read more... )

I've just started a 48 hour take home. I can't concentrate, furthermore, I do not want to!! I want to play CivIII and surf online and eat salty potato foods. I hate this exam! Do you think if I procrastinate long enough, it will just write itself ( Read more... )