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Hello again!
I got a notification a few weeks ago that it was my 15th anniversary on Livejournal. This place used to be such an important repository for my day to day; on some level I miss those days, but there were struggles I had back then that I don't deal with anymore, and I'm grateful to have gotten through them. Maybe I'll start using LJ again as a public ( Read more... ) -
hmm
How am I ever going to be able to sustain a marriage if only four months with a really great roommate makes me grumpy at a ton of the stupid small things she does ( Read more... ) -
ugh IPE
I hate IPE. ugh ugh ugh it's so BORING! Why am I an IR minor again? I find one of the articles we read this week very unconvincing, and I just realized that the reason I'm not convinced by it is because the authors wrote this really vicious response article contradicting the claims of an author who contradicted the claims of their original article ( Read more... ) -
I need to grow up, obviously
Sometimes I'm really dumb. I spent at least 30 min in the wee hours of the morning being sick from eating too much dairy, my stomach's felt bad on and off today, and what did I just do? Ate ice cream, that's what. Seriously, Claire ( Read more... ) -
a representative mini freak out
Oh my gosh what am I doing with my life, why am I in grad school, what on earth am I picking for my dissertation topic, being in your 20s is stressful b/c you have no stability about your future but are expected to have it figured out and be happy with the uncertainty and I'm not good at that (although that's ok, I don't need to be; I just need to ( Read more... ) -
this cat is too fat
The cat was sitting on my lap and jumped off it in a hurry to go greet my roommate at the door, and as he did so he used his claws (he's only got the back ones, he's been declawed) for traction, and he punched holes into my dress! Plus it hurt. This is why I think he is too fat. This is why I don't like him as much as I otherwise would. He is ( Read more... ) -
where do the days go?
Just saw that the world's biggest afro is 4 feet 4 inches from end to end. Before I wash my hair next I'm going to fluff it out to see how big mine gets. I could totally beat 4ft 4 inches at some point if my hair was thick enough to keep growing out instead of down... it does get afro-y when I comb it out when it's dry... this might be my shot at ( Read more... ) -
in which I get annoyed with abstraction
I kind of feel like the transitional justice literature I've been reading (70+ articles and several books so far) is pretty much either policy recommendations or theoretical shoegazing. Can we get some empirical work on this, guys? Yeah? Please? I guess that'll be my contribution... enough with the abstraction and sermonizing already, good grief! -
I don't think that's quite what it means to live in a fallen world, but okay
We've got ants in our house in the kitchen 'cause it's been raining so much that they've been flooded out of their nests. I asked Dad why they couldn't've just drowned in the rain instead of coming inside, and his answer was, "because we live in a fallen world." Ah, yes, bringing theology to bear on real life... :P I love my dad. -
usually being an adult is like being Sisyphus
So I wanted to get new windshield wiper blades today 'cause mine are old and starting to streak the windshield when I use them, and there have been massive thunderstorms all up & down the east coast recently, and I thought hmm, maybe it's not so smart to drive 650 miles (one way) with old windshield wipers... well, I went to go buy them, & the guy ( Read more... )