I can't seem to stop crying.

One part heartbreak. I really thought we were going to elect our first woman president. I really honestly thought that was going to happen.

One part fear. Not for me so much. I'm white and middle class. I'll be okay. But I'm terrified for every minority group in this country.

One part shame. My state went blue, we did ( Read more... )

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I still can't keep track of the difference between an em-dash and an en-dash.

So, ah. Life, it's a thing that keeps on going. I need a break.

Currently most excited about booksand things. I:

Finally finished reading Fullmetal Alchemist! Yeah, late to the party as usual. I stopped buying them when they were still being released because cliffhangers upset me,and then I never got around to catching up until I was browsing the ( Read more... )

WHY DON'T THEY TEACH ABOUT DWARF PLANETS IN SCHOOL WTF??? WE LEARNED ALL ABOUT THE PLANETS AND THEIR MOONS BUT NOT THE ALMOST-PLANETS THAT ARE EVEN CLOSER THAN SOME PLANETS???? But I've never even heard of Ceres, Eris, or Makemake. I mean, I guess there's like, hundreds of them, so you can't expect fourth graders to memorize them all, but going ( Read more... )

An abbreviated list of things:

• got an A in my first grad school class
• bills suck
• getting up at six in the morning to go to work sucks
• books are awesome
• been catching up on some of the new Marvel shows, can't wait to get to Jessica Jones (saving the best for last!)
• I rate the new Star Wars movie as vastly better than the prequels, but not quite as good as ( Read more... )

This just in: abdominal surgery sucks.

(I'm fine, just uncomfortable.)

*slaps hands on table* Guess who has tickets to Broadway? I DO! Well, ticket. It's just me going. And it's not 'til next October, because Hamilton was sold out like whoa. But yes, I'm going. Very excited.

Hey y'all, I got a Goodreads account. I'm Shycat there! Add me if you have one. Check it out to see what I'm reading and stuff. Idk, it just seemed like high time I got one.

*bounces up and down excitedly* Yuletide, Yuletide, Yuletide! *om noms over assignment*

Speaking of assignments! I have three more essays to write this semester! One is due this week; I get to rant about the patriarchy write a scholarly discourse on one of our readings from last week. Should be better than the last one (which I got an A on, but ( Read more... )