( the official bourgeois public sphere is the institutional vehicle for a major historical transformation in the nature of political domination )

Hey all, remember how I used to post notes on readings I did? I'm gonna try to do that sometimes again for things I am doing notes-aside on rather than notes-annotated. Don't expect quite as many as last fall, but hopefully these are still interesting to a few of you!

( Critics occupy a position both inside and outside of the public. )

Here's some stuff I am enjoying right now.

• Salads. Man, until recently, I was not such a big fan of salad. And if I haven't had a large meal in a day yet, I will still sort of look at the salad and say "That's nice, where is my tofu or seitan." But getting fresh vegetables, finding accessories you actually like, picking a good dressing? These ( Read more... )

So, a bunch of my friends are postfurries [0], and I follow a number of them on Twitter, which I vacillate between finding enjoyable and finding really frustrating because I can't express nuance well in 140 characters. Often they talk about stuff like anyone else talks about on twitter --- what they had for dinner that evening, they missed the bus ( Read more... )

OK. So.

• Moved to Arizona. Oh god it's warm, and I'm not biking much yet because I need to find a store and get them to put cleats on my shoes because my old right bike shoe is doing something terrible to my knee and oh god that needs to stop right now. But it's beautiful and the fruit trees (avocado!!!) and little lizards everywhere and cacti don't ( Read more... )

So, gender!

For a while now I've been mumbling about maybe using gender-neutral pronouns or something because I have this discomfort with gender. My name is Rachel, and I present myself as female, and you might think I'd be reasonably happy about both of those because I picked them. And in some ways I am! Because damn, are they better than the ( Read more... )

Made it ( Read more... )

I spent this early morning in urgent care! Now I'm on doctor's orders not to do physical activity for seven days. You've probably noticed I am moving this week. This is hilarious. The doctor was like "You should avoid all physical activity for seven days!" and I was like "Uhhh, I'm moving, so not so much" and he was like "Would you rather not move ( Read more... )

OK! So, not that you all necessarily care, but I have the move mostly planned out now. It will go something like this:

• Ongoing: PAAAAAAACK
• Ongoing: Make list of things to bring in van
• Before Jul 20: Get one or two air mattresses
• Jul 15: Rik arrives
• Jul 18: Trailer arrives

I haven't shared a recipe here in a while, so here's the fried rice I've been making in variations for the last while. I started making friend rice a couple of years ago as a thing to do with extra rice and such, and then when I lost a lot of my diet because of picking up a nighshade allergy, it became a bit more of a go-to for me. After recently ( Read more... )