For years I've prided myself on the fact that, I not only have made a slam team every year, but I've always done it with new poems. It's a challenge I set for myself: if I can write new stuff and still make the team using my new material, I'm still good at this, I'm still relevant ( Read more... )

Classes have started up here, and it's been incredibly hectic. When I post on Facebook that something is kind of tough, I keep getting the same damn replies. "You're in a PhD program, what did you expect?" THIS! This is exactly what I expected! Doesn't mean it doesn't fucking suck sometimes. Jesus ( Read more... )

So, as I've made clear elsewhere, this year's nationals was my worst nationals ever, for personal reasons that I really don't want to get into here. I keep seeing people post pictures from nationals and I'm glad they all had a good time and have good memories and pictures from it, but I really didn't have the same experience ( Read more... )

Emily is showing me sex positions from a book called Lesbian Sex 101. I've determined that lesbian sex is just a lot of really uncreative, repetitive sex positions with punny names.

When people are okay with using the word "faggot" but not the word "nigger," I start to lose my faith in humanity. The only thing that makes the former word more socially acceptable than the latter is because social acceptance of black people dates back farther than social acceptance of gay people. Additionally, social acceptance of gays is still ( Read more... )

I went to check my checking account today and found that it was lower than I expected it to be at this point in the year. Granted, some money will be coming back to me in some form or another: roommates paying me back for bills I've paid, landlord giving me back my security deposit (minus a bullshit fee for cleaning last year between roommates ( Read more... )

I want to use this quote as an epigraph for something just because of the sheer stupidity of it, but how does one make a quote an epigraph while simultaneously pointing out that they disagree with it ( Read more... )

Today is the anniversary of Shannon Leigh's accident. I didn't even realize it until I posted on Facebook that I had a dream involving Shannon, and Sarah Quenon pointed out to me what date it was. Also, last night my roommate pulled out the copy of the DVD of one of Shannon's features in Austin when he inexplicably removed all of my DVDs from the ( Read more... )

So, I watched the movie Food Inc. last night/this morning. Truly an enlightening and terrifying documentary, and an important one to watch. I highly encourage everyone to see it. That being said, I found a few holes in it ( Read more... )

As a TA, I find students have a tendency to either overestimate or underestimate my authority.  One student at the end of class asked me a question I didn't have the answer to and refused to accept "You'll have to talk to the professor about it" as an answer.  Another felt he was free to talk about how little work he did on his paper because the ( Read more... )