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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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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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NOBODY UNDERSTANDS YOU.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Hey!  So, in honor of I Was Up Half the Night With an Existential Crisis (and, be honest, weren’t we all?), I am celebrating INTERNATIONAL BE 17 YEARS OLD DAY, which is a made-up holiday that I invented just now. I am celebrating International Be 17 Years Old Day by wearing black eyeliner and listening [...]

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And also I fell and skinned my knee. Luckily, my heart is made of fourtanium

Sunday, February 15, 2009

1.  Dear my students:  the question about “which movement is this song associated with” was referring to a social movement.  Therefore the answer is not “the movement of swaying your hips.” 2.  Dear American Cinematheque:  Thank you for having a Valentine’s day double bill of Baz Luhrmann films about how if you fall in love, [...]

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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 [...]

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Currently stressed out about:

Monday, December 29, 2008

1. Teaching section this quarter because I don’t know how, 2. Masters’ exams in the spring because they are scary, 3. What if there is no money for the Echo conference because all of the money in the world has vanished (see: “economic crisis”), 4. Dying in an earthquake because I live in California. Luckily, [...]

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Dear the Baby Jesus,

Sunday, December 21, 2008

I don’t actually believe in you or anything, but since your birthday (or “birthday”?) is coming up I just thought I’d say thank you. Thank you for all of my friends who are lovely and amazing and nice to me and send me messages to cheer me up when I am being sad and angsty. [...]

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Damn you, holidays/time zones

Saturday, December 20, 2008

I just really need for somebody to tell me that I am not awkward and weird and hopeless or for somebody to tell me that I’m awkward and weird and hopeless but that it’s ok to be awkward and weird and hopeless but everybody is either gone away for the holidays, or is in the [...]

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Please can I spend the rest of the quarter sitting around, drinking tea, and listening to the Marvelettes?

Sunday, November 23, 2008

I feel like I have nothing good to say, but since it’s been a long time since I posted because everything has been so busy, I feel like I should say things anyhow. Hey, guess what!  I finally got to see Cute With Chris Live after all these years of trying to get tickets.  And [...]

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