My paper proposal was accepted by the International Studies Association Conference! The conference is in San Francisco, March 26-29th. Since that falls during my spring break, I think I am going to spend a week down there.

Fiction is much tamer than reality ( Read more... )

School begins next week, and as usual, I have mixed feelings about returning to the academic beat ( Read more... )

Is anyone surprised? Really?

Your Score: House Lannister

54% Dominant, 45% Extroverted, 54% Trustworthy


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I usually score as I/ENTP...perhaps deadlines are pushing me in a 'J' direction. If that is so, I fear for my life. :P ( Read more... )

"Soon he was pushing 30, that pestering age when you have to admit your adolescence is officially over, when people start pressuring you, even indirectly, to settle down, and then you start convincing yourself that, yes, settling down is what you sincerely want ( Read more... )

Ideas that emerged through conversations over the past 48 hours ( Read more... )

Oh, yes, I'm excited.

I was able to use the words maladroit and obolescing in my latest paper on genocide and mass killing.

It's not often I get to use both of those words in the same paper.

Ask your boyfriend if he would sleep with your sibling. If he says, "Yes" then he's not really listening to you.

If he says, "Depends on what he/she wanted", then he's already given it too much thought.

At that point, please feel free to remind him that everything he owns is in a box to the left.

The term has ended, but the struggle is far from over ( Read more... )