So I'll have a little thought exercise. How many of the AFI top movies pass the Bechdel test? (I can't use IMDB, since that is ordered by vote and I think the demographics of the electorate probably skew the results). Remember, the Bechdel test doesn't indicate that a movie is good or feminist, it only illustrates representation. The point is not ( Read more... )

Quick update for posterity ( Read more... )

I am going to write in this journal when I'm toothless. I keep trying to move on to a blog that doesn't have the self-important and immature ramblings that I try to pretend I've outgrown... (I am so self-conscious it is immobilizing) ...but the history of this one keeps pulling me back. Seriously - this journal goes all the way back to high school ( Read more... )

Grad school anxiety nearly over/just beginning. The only school I have yet to hear from is University of Oregon, and as I understand they decide late.

( summary, anxiety, plus entries brought over from my Anthro blog )

INTERVIEW AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!!!!

I get to see Chicago! They will fly me out, and wine and dine me, and I get to pick 4 faculty members to sit and talk with about research! And I get to stay in a hotel! I'm so excited!!!!

Wooop woop woop wooop woop!!!

I got all excited just now, because - not only did my cell phone ring for once...but the person on the other end knew my name but did not know how to pronounce it ( Read more... )

more blog entries, put here for safekeeping.

( trust me you don't want it )

I love Thai Ginger Soup.

( This is Geraldine? Here come the blog? Who am I? )

So, I've been keeping a blog for an anthropology class about online community that I'm taking. I have not written in this in a while - which is disappointing, because I love fishing through my old archives and learning about what I used to be like. I don't want my record of myself to drop off at age 19 ( Read more... )

Forthcoming films I'm desperate to see ( Read more... )