December 2011
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baby, keep your hands off my laptop
A power surge last night meant a shut-off breaker today, and with that, half the outlets in the house were down, including the one hooked up to the office computer. I was at work when the boything called, and said, offhandedly, “Do you know your mouse pad doesn’t work?”
I did know this, but instead of saying, “Yes, I do know that thanks for pointing it out,” I...
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thoughts after seeing 'shame'
The usual caveats apply: I am too tired to blog with rigor. Links and citations will be freeform at best. I take the following as givens: that gender is a social construct but we are deeply socialized into its binaries all the same; that the statistical mean is merely one way of understanding human behavior; and that the pornography industry is, by and large, very, very fucked up.
As a...
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it's a lonely business: on asking for feedback
Let me get this out of the way: I am a supercilious bitch. I am not, in short, a nice person. My opinion of my own intellect, however, far outweighs my capacity for productive output. It’s not that I think I’m so great, though, but that practically every other person is so goddamn stupid they make me want to chew through my lips in frustration.
In most areas, be it academics or work...
WatchFeeling better and more social. And purring like crazy.