Ladies, let's talk frankly, shall we?

Who among us is exactly the size she really, deep down in her heart, wants to be?  That's right: very damn few.  Most of us would very much like to look like this:

when the unfortunate fact is that we… Read full post »

I just had this thought and wanted to share it.  I may be talking to empty space, but at least my words exist outside of my head here.

Conservatives are conformists. They have a herd mentality and are afraid of stepping away from the pack. This is why it's so… Read full post »

My father used to tell a story about me at the age of three.  Already afraid of him and unwilling to spend time with him unless my mother was also present, I got out of a moving car when I realized my mother wasn't getting in.  He had… Read full post »

So I haven't posted in this blog for awhile; I've been a little busy.  But it's spring break here now, so I have time to sit down and tell you what's going on.

I'm graduating in August.  WHEE!  This came as quite a surprise, but it turns out that I'm just… Read full post »

The first time I ever voted for President, I was eighteen years old, and I cast my vote on the Clinton/Gore re-election ticket in 1996.  Four years later, I voted for Al Gore, and four years after that, in increasing worry as I watched the Swift Boaters attack, for John Kerry.… Read full post »

It's been snowing off and on since Thursday; you'd think we'd have feet and feet of it by now, but we have less than an inch.  It's enough, though, that it's made the roads and bridges all icy.

We live in an odd place that is accessible… Read full post »

It is January 1, 2010, and I lay in bed last night (around 11:30) wondering what I had made of the previous year.  So I decided to sit down and figure out, if I could, just exactly what I did in 2009.

I appear to have spent all day on New… Read full post »

So I took my last final today, whee!

On the topic of the jerkoff professor, I got my presentation grade; he gave me an 87 which I am actually fine with because that's what I gave myself on my self-evaluation.  It's a fair cop.  I did go WAY over time, and… Read full post »

I am broke.

I don't say that to seek sympathy, nor is it a recent development. I have been broke for pretty much all of the last ten years, bar a few good months here and there. It is a normal state of life for me, and I deal, and I… Read full post »

It's finals week at MTSU!

I only have two finals left to take, believe it or not.  My first was last Thursday (the professor gave it in-class on the last day), and I got 19/20 on it.  My second was a take-home; I did it Saturday morning.

Tomorrow afternoon at 3:30,… Read full post »

So, this article was the headline on the Salon newsletter I got in my email today, and I've been thinking about it off and on for most of the afternoon.  The second paragraph is what really got to me:  I am someone with a life. I have a career, a son,… Read full post »

So I've decided to go in search of history.  My own, specifically.  I want to know where I came from, and hopefully figure out where I'm going.  So I started with my grandparents.

I spent about 11 hours sitting here in front of the computer yesterday, digging through records and gawkin… Read full post »

I was six years old in 1984 and, unlike many children of today, I was completely disconnected from popular culture except as it related to after-school or Saturday-morning cartoons. My brother was eleven, and more connected than me. He had a red jacket, covered in zippers. He had a pile of… Read full post »

I'm bored, Salon.   Read full post »