February 2012
1 post
Adulting: Central adulting theme: Harden the fuck... →
adulting:
Sometimes, you will think to yourself, “Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! I have so, so much to do, and neither the will nor the energy to do any of it.” At this moment, there are two options:
• Go get back in bed, thus letting others and yourself down, or; • Harden the fuck up.
As far as I’m concerned,…
January 2012
14 posts
“I put more effort into it and tried to improve, because I respected her time,...”
– I’m going to stop posting quotes from these columns, but they are so great. Also, new life goal acquired.
Bullish: What to Charge for Your Work (and What to Pay Your Assistant)
“I will help you pick a new business right now. Take something exciting that you...”
– Bullish: How To Be A Productivity Unicorn
“I suppose it shouldn’t have seemed like such a revelation for someone who was...”
– Working Girls: Introducing Our New Business Column, ‘Bullish’
One week until Senegal.
Eeek.
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28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life →
Some parts are SEO’d and cheeseball. Others are things that probably would make my life easier. Most are both.
The Netflix Copy for "Withnail and I"
“Two unemployed actors take a trip to the British countryside in 1969, where they experience a lack of food and an abundance of rain and alcohol.”
“The character appears (also misspelled Sherringford), along with his brothers,...”
– Minor Sherlock Holmes characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, come on.
All-Consuming Fire - Wikipedia, the free... →
There is an officially-licensed Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, Lovecraft crossover novel from the mid-90s. Someone who loves me will buy this.
Made more amusing by the fact that this particular...
fuckyeahanthropologymajorfox:
[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating purple and green. Foreground — a picture of a fox. Top text: “ [Teacher’s gone.] ” Bottom text: “ [Discuss menarche rituals with table cohort.] ”]
Submitted by shevralay.
She’s also the one who gave me an A in the class where I slipped one into my final paper. Success!
amanda palmer: the Wedding Blog →
amandapalmer:
(on a side note: neil says that one of the moments he realized that *I* really loved *him* was the time he was sick with the flu in a texas hotel room. he puked in the bathroom, and when he came back to bed i still made out with him. that’s love, he said.)
December 2011
23 posts
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Home for the Holidays
Dad: We laugh at your bandwith limits!
Me: Oh?
Dad: Since your sister and you moved home this month, we have used 86 Gigs of data.
Me: ... How many did you use last month?
Dad: Five.
Me: Whoops.
“bush baby, how big are moles, picture of target cataolog [sic], sad about where...”
– List of search terms directing folks to my blog.
“Ive met the man you’re going to marry. He says delightful as much as you do, is...”
– Old text message I just noticed (from Alesha, who rightfully demanded credit)
You’re Not As Busy As You Think →
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I really would like to do an honors thesis on fandom communities online. I think it’s really interesting that so much of a very specific kind of fandom author has stayed on LJ despite the rest of the world (except for Russia) having moved on. It’s not that they’re not aware of other platforms—it’s a remarkably techsavvy audience, and many of them have other blogs on Tumblr...
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Today's Lesson for College Students: Lighten Up →
This article is old (2004, followed a link trail from Study Hacks), but it so very much makes me petulantly, inappropriately mad at college administrators. You support the campaign? Fuck you. Who do you think broke us in the first place?
It’s great when colleges provide broader mental health services. Half the people I know are in counseling, and it’s benefitted pretty much all of...
like polishing firewood: ellipsis foul →
likepolishingfirewood:
It’s recently come to my attention that my friends are ellipsis whores. It used to confuse me and all of our gchat conversations would leave me mildly flustered. Discovering that the more egregious offenders were just using them gratuitously with NIGH ON FLAGRANT DISREGARD for their intended…
The chaplain at my college does this. (“Let’s grab...
Queef and bad news bears
This is how the voice recognition on my phone translated “Grief and Headhunter’s Rage.”
Literary Legend Margaret Atwood Thinks Twitter... →
Margaret Atwood has a twitter!
Things I enjoy in my media
Lady doctors.
Guns.
Anthropology.
Lady anthropologists with guns.
You’d be surprised how many shows hit that last one.
Instead of writing papers like I need to be doing
mrawbot:
I just spent about 45 minutes with Michael reviewing pictures of writers/ public figures from the early 20th century and determining whether or not they are fuckable.
Yes:
-Virginia Woolf
-Aldous Huxley
-Einstein
-Ayn Rand
No:
-Gertrude Stein
-Freud
Maybe??
-Auden (weird-looking but awesome)
-Ernest Hemingway (attractive but a sexist alcoholic)
-James Joyce (kind of funny...
If Twilight 4 Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times... →
Just the best.
Wifey Wednesday: What Your Husband Wishes You Knew... →
This website manages to combine two things I hate—the word “wifey” and that strange salmon color—into one awful package!
Also, she sells a Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex book, so, there’s that.
An observation
There is pretty much nothing in the world that will get me to just weep quite like the “the violent alien wasn’t malicious, just scared and confused” trope. (Ender’s Game? “Vincent and the Doctor”? Yeah.)
Organon: To all those men who don't think the rape... →
oforganon:
(via) This post in particular is addressed to men, not because women don’t rape and women don’t make/laugh at rape jokes and not because men can’t be raped, but because, by nature of the existing gender disparity, men are in a unique position to be taken seriously when they raise objections to…
Just really tremendous.
“College is nothing more than a baby-sitting service. These students are totally...”
– Why Millennial Women Are Burning Out At Work By 30 - Forbes
So what I’ve learned from this is that PR people make me sad. Good to know.
“Our goal has been to make sure we have the right resources in the right places...”
– CNN Fires Editors & Photojournalists Because Amateurs Will Work for Free
If you’re still spelling it “desk-top,” my trust of your opinion about things is limited.
November 2011
27 posts
“15.) Occasionally touch the skin on your eyelids. Feel that? That’s what...”
– 18 Things You Can Do Instead of Having Sex (If You’re in a Dry Spell Like Me) | xoJane
10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get... →
Classy.
“Consider, for example, sleep: the elite players slept an hour more per night...”
– Study Hacks » Blog Archive » If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers
I am not a tremendous student. But I do well, and I have gotten 8 hours of sleep a night and never pulled an all-nighter since I got here. The fact that students...
Issendai's Superhero Training Journal - The Evil... →
All apostrophes in the middle of fantasy names are now to be pronounced “boing.” That is all.
Bahah.
Rob Delaney: On Depression & Getting Help →
This was originally posted February 26, 2010.
I deal with suicidal, unipolar depression and I take medication daily to treat it. Over the past seven years, I’ve had two episodes that were severe and during which I thought almost exclusively of suicide. I did not eat much and lost weight during…
“Plus, there’s no better way to enjoy your extended family than with a...”
– What To Do This Weekend, November 25-27
I am a fan of whoever writes Scoutmob’s copy.
What's Wrong With #FirstWorldProblems - Technology... →
Good analysis of why #FirstWorldProblems, though the intent (a reminder that there are bigger things in the world) is not a bad thing, is incredibly condescending.
