I'm updating, which can only really mean one thing: I'm researching ( Read more... )

I think it's important to share this with my hangers-on:

I am THISCLOSE to getting a scooter. Not a Vespa, but similar: a Genuine Stella. In Ice Mint Green.  My one-time coworker from Oaklahoma is moving back to Turkey, and she's looking to dump her 2-month-old baby.  I'd pay off the bank loan, and it'd be mine.

I took lil Stella for a ride today.  ( Read more... )

I've realized that of late many of my posts have been friends-only. Why the secrecy? Do I have something to hide? Probably ( Read more... )

i went to see bell hooks speak this evening at lc. several million thoughts are consequently bouncing around in my head. here are a few:

i am thankful for my mother.

i am thankful for thinkers like bell hooks.

i want to be a teacher. i want to promote literacy.

i want to read everything bell hooks has ever written. like, yesterday.

Quotes of the day ( Read more... )

i think all men are dumb fuckers ( Read more... )

i have told myself in recent weeks that i don't want the "bad boy" that so many claim girls lust after ( Read more... )

today some old dude at work said to me when i helped him poke a bigger hole in the sippy part of his lid (to better accomodate his straw ( Read more... )

You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy)
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I've been sick since Thursday of last week. I believe I became ill ( Read more... )