Definitely having a 50s party. Someday. It will be amazing. Poodle skirts and sweaters. OMGASIF. RAVE ON. Assuming I dont die after the examhellstorm tomorrow...

I need to keep up with my freepreading. apparently there is a justified shitstorm over an anti recycling fellow. I think I will actually send in an op edit myself, albeit a bit after the crowd. The fellow needs a series of point by point rebuttals, since he did offer a fairly structured and well presented (if myopic and fallacious) set of ( Read more... )

for the amount of joy this brings me. I was obsessed with them as a kid!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4493825.stm

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meep. The Mystic River cleanup was quite super duper fun. We got a good three hours of cleaning in before senor rain came. The people were quite interesting. They ranged from my age to that my-kids-just-left-me-with-an-empty-nest age, but were generally uniformly intelligent, unpretentious, and personable. One of the empty nesters, who was for ( Read more... )

eeeeeee! Yay mystic river cleanup thingie tomorrow! I used to do randomcleanups in highschool and it was super fun. Yes. but I am still not a dirty hippie. Its weird to love so very many hippieish things and still want, at a visceral level anyhow, to impale hippies. Owell! happy prancing kittens in the sun. Well, rain. It will rain of course, ( Read more... )

Do clean things!

http://www.cityofboston.gov/neighborhoods/bostonshines.asp.

Mary Timony is a nice lady.

There were some cute folks at her show.

The semester is almost over, rover

I love waking up to sunlit trees and birdsong

Dear Boston Marathon

I hate you. You bring google-eyed tourists and close every road.

Dear Boston Red Sox,

I hate you too. You wreck Kenmore and bring Fat, Ugly, Bigoted Suburban WHOO-ers into the BIG CITY where they dont belong.

Dear High Fidelity

I <3 you times a million. I need to watch you more often...and maybe even with another human

I <3 the new gym so much. it isnt just A mazing, its about 23 mazings. yup yup. The semester seems to be dying...I'm finally doing about half of what I should have been doing for jobsearching...It is so weird to think that a month from now, in theory, I should be totally out of academia. It is definitely scary. If I expected to meet people I ( Read more... )