So, I'm a little more than 12 hours away from my marathon. I've just eaten a revolting amount of pasta, and I've had about 2 liters of water to drink today already. (Yet I'm still thirsty, as always.) Now I'm baking cupcakes for my post-marathon shindig - yum.

For those of you keeping score at home, here's a little info for you.

- my bib number ( Read more... )

Oh, it feels sooooo good.....the semester is finally over. I just have to turn in my grades (which will take all of two seconds) and then I am DONE.

As things have been winding down in the last few days, I've taken some much needed relaxation time. Even given that, though, I feel like I'm still in this super overachiever mode. Here are some ( Read more... )

1.  you initially type in the title above as "signs that a semester of craziness has fried your brown"
2.  you make two dozen cupcakes, but forget to put oil in any of them, forcing you to make another batch, which is really the last thing you had time for (if you ever wondered if cupcakes actually needed oil, the answer is yes.  Most definitely yes ( Read more... )

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Yesterday afternoon, feeling burnt out but with still at least ten pages to write on my political history paper, I took a break to check my email.  In it, I found an email entitled "Your Maternal Notion Proposal" - a response to an abstract I'd sent awhile ago to a professor editing a collection of essays on challenging traditional notions of ( Read more... )

So most of the local news stations had coverage of the protest, and I am in ABC's in addition to DMN's. In case anyone wants to see my two seconds of fame, check me out here around 52 seconds in.

http://www.wfaa.com/video/wfaageneral-index.html?nvid=304102&shu=1

So, I was at my first peaceful protest/demonstration/whatever today. It was a great experience and I left feeling really excited about community activism and involvement. Once the madness of this semester is over I want to get more involved with the GLBT community.

There were over 1,000 people at the protest - I think I read 1200, maybe. Oh, and ( Read more... )

I can breathe a sigh of relief, because as of about a minute ago, I am DONE with a major, major hurdle for the semester: my term paper over the 1973 declassification of homosexuality from the DSM, which is also going to be my writing sample for my grad apps.  Phew.  The thing came out to 17 pages (26 if you count the bibliography - 53 sources - and ( Read more... )

Dear Monterey County ( Read more... )

Being the election junkie I am, I've been perusing CNN's website while I, uh, watch CNN obsessively, and in doing so, I've come across a few amusing and/or curious things ( Read more... )