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WWBD?*

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

One of the worst things about coming home for vacation from graduate school is that most people don’t really understand what gradute school is or why anyone would want to really bother with it, so I have consequently had to spend a lot of time justifying my (admittedly, sometimes poor) life choices to, like, everybody [...]

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North Carolina in review

Sunday, May 31, 2009

I like it here.  Last night, we went out for to a bar and I had two beers and my two beers cost a magical three dollars, total.  Like, what is this?  Mecca?  And the night before, I had a glass of wine with dinner that cost $2.95.  And it was full.  None of this [...]

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99 problems and a master’s exam ain’t one.

Monday, May 25, 2009

I am clawing my way out of the abyss to let you know that:
1.  I have finished writing my exams!  An entire day early!  Which means that tomorrow is for sleeping in and editing and printing and then having a drink.
2.  Wednesday I am jet-setting it off to North Carolina for Feminist Theory and Music, [...]

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Oh My Heavens.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

1.  I am writing to you on a new computer, because my old computer died, sort of, or something.  The screen was weirdly flickering the other day.  And then today it weirdly flickered and then went black.  And then I tried the ol’ turn-it-off-and-turn-it-on-again trick, only it wouldn’t turn on again.  It was dead.  So [...]

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Ph’nglui mglw’nafh C’thulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

Thursday, May 7, 2009

1.  Oh, god, there is too much to do!  Once upon a time I thought it would be a good idea to write my MA exams, attend a conference in North Carolina, and organize a conference at UCLA all in the same month, and now that month is upon me, and it turns out it [...]

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Ollalieberry:

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Actually a thing.
(A mutant thing, but still, a thing.)
(I do, however, remain dubious about a berry that needs to be explained using a flowchart.)
Other important news:  I have just managed to work the phrase “Outer Space is for Lovers” into an academic paper; I have therefore reached the pinnacle of my academic career and they [...]

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Nightmares of the bookish and nerdy

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Last night I had a dream that I had submitted an abstract of my Amy Winehouse paper to the AMS and they sent it back to me in the mail with every sentence crossed out in red pen.  And also “FALSE” was written in the margins, beside every sentence that had been crossed out in [...]

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My personal favourite is “stake driven through the heart.”

Monday, January 26, 2009

Hey, remember that time I got really depressed about boys and started quoting Sylvia Plath, like an angsty 17-year-old?  I promise it won’t happen again, at least not this month (note that there is hardly a week left to the month).
But anyhow.  On to more important things, like…
DJ mixing class!  So great.  It is me [...]

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And then I flew a rocket ship to the planet Marva.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Zarah and I went to the Pasadena Doo-Dah Parade, which, basically, is a parade for the mad.  And, in many ways, it renewed by faith in humankind.  Here are pictures!  And also, my new goal in life is to be a Lady in a Fancy Dress, Sitting on a Car, Waving at the Masses when [...]

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So, this one time, we went to Hawaii.

Friday, January 16, 2009

I was sustained by the transcendental coffee, delighted by the drinks made of fruit and rum and blue curacao, made vaguely uncomfortable by the culturally insensitive luaus, and seduced by the pineapples.
And also I presented some conference papers.  And spent a respectable amount of time wearing leopard print.

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