i just bullshitted my way through a paper that is due in 9 hours. it's fine and it's finished. i learned that proofreading is a good thing, though i hate to do it (i've been paid to be a professional editor, but i hate to be my own editor...but with papers as craptastic as this, i wouldn't dare give it to someone else, either). the funniest ( Read more... )

happy birthday to my favorite linguistics nerd, grokfairy! may this year be most excellent, full of learning (on all levels) and the ability to be kind to yourself. when you figure that last part out, please also share it with me.

additionally? may you have delicious birthday snacks void of refined sugar and white flour. you are fabulous :)

this day has dragged....but i did manage to finish my conference workshop proposal and i did see a bunch of clients and i did freak out my coworkers with my understated outfit. yay for creepy eyes and teeth!


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it amuses me to no end that the scholarly journal entitled the "journal of homosexuality" is, in many places, abbreviated "J Homosex". J Homosex, people. that's funny.

what is not funny is that it's 11:15 on a saturday night and i'm actually doing work that involves running across citations for the J Homosex. it's hard out here for a nerd....

thank god for yahoo (!) news, else i may never have known that seven out of ten heterosexuals today know someone gay. it's hard to know where to begin when discussing this article, so i leave you to draw your own conclusions.

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tonight was yet another staff meeting at the sex store, but at least this time it was over in an hour. i'm far too old to be up til midnight talking about the organization of the silicone dildo back stock, really ( Read more... )

apparently there was some big explosion at 15th and market (just a couple of blocks from my office) and now much of center city, about 36 square blocks, is closed off (13th-18th, walnut to vine). apparently things are on fire. the explosion reportedly is from some PECO stuff ( Read more... )

incendiary words, the knowledge that hate sticks a little deeper these days, that the world feels a little like destruction by a brilliant symphony movement. we are broken by crescendos and the accelerando, mended by a flurry of strings and an eventual resolution of voices. it comes in fits and starts ( Read more... )