I'm so bitter about high-fructose corn syrup.  Why is it in everything, wreaking its poisonous havoc?  It's my feeling that HFCS should be the next legislated-against food additive (it's honestly as bad as trans fats).  But THAT'S not going to happen in this Great Country of Corn ( Read more... )

I should totally be sleeping, but I'm not.  I'm going to be cranky again tomorrow.  There are a lot of things I want to write about though.

But I just read this excerpt from Judith Warner's recent book Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety.  It read to me a lot like The Feminine Mystique. The subjects of her book, it sounds like, are ( Read more... )

I had hardly noticed what a blatantly sexist tool Chris Matthews was until I came across this depressing montage of sound bites from political commentators about Hillary, Michelle Obama, and other women in the spotlight this election season (courtesy of Judith Warner here).  I say hardly because a few weeks back I was watching Matthews do whatever ( Read more... )

Life does suck more now from within terminal 4 at heathrow. Slightly. Is this the worst terminal? I hope so ( Read more... )

I'm on my way home from Germany now!  But don't get too excited. I have approximately 28 hours of scheduled travel time, so I won't be home until tomorrow afternoon.  I'm in the Frankfurt airport now, and I may be the only one on earth, but I'm beginning to appreciate the small conveniences airports and planes afford.  Wifi for one thing.  And good ( Read more... )

My Eurotrip began 2 days ago in Oxford. Oxford is adorable -- more British-y than I would have realistically imagined.

I'm here mainly for the purpose of visiting the branch of Wiley-Blackwell (W-B) here and meeting some of the important people with whom I have not much to talk about but stand to learn a lot from.*  And I feel like I have.  Also, ( Read more... )

Song of the Day:  "London Calling"

Bye, friends.  =)

Song of the day:  "I stand corrected" - Vampire Weekend.  

Yeah, North Carolina!!!  She's going to drop out.  I can taste it.  "If anything, Mrs. Clinton’s options for overtaking Senator Barack Obama may have dwindled further" writes the NY Times ( Read more... )

Song of the day:  "Slow Show" - The National

I forgot, but yesterday's song was "Heart it Races" (Dr. Dog).