I don't have a lot of time to write right now, but wanted to a) drop down the creepy picture of baby rats and b) link quickly to something.
I don't have time to write NOT because I'm crazy busy (thank god), but have a couple hours and want to get the hell out of my academic building, where I spend too much time as it is. I fanagled my schedule this quarter so that I will have two afternoons a week to myself (and my studies). Two spring afternoons to loll in the quad reading, or spend in a sunny window seat at a coffee shop, studiously working. Best decision I've made in a while, which involved dropping a required class (that I'll have to take next spring) and picking up a class I'm very interested in (a super small seminar on sustainability and the urban form).
So anyway, my thoughts go out to Natasha and her continuing pest problem. My congratulations also go to my old work team, who just got the contract for the project I worked on for 2+ years renewed! GO TEAM!
I also want to link to this essay on the NYTimes about women, reading and dating. It's hilarious and oh-so-true.
Later. I'm off to soak up as much sun as I can. (And to of course finish my homework.)
(Update: Oh, I just read this post about "faux female empowerment" icons and have to agree. Partially because SatC bugs the hell out of me. And for the last two grafs:
The bottom line: If you were going to choose a gender-specific role model, why one of these four cardboard characters? As American women have won more and more rights, the feminist movement has had the luxury of branching off in many, even contradictory, directions. Feminist icons run the gamut from activist Gloria Steinem to porn star Jenna Jamison…not to mention our first viable female Presidential candidate in Hillary Clinton.
One friend suggested we organize a boycott of the Sex and the City movie. But it's just not that important. In an ideal world, former fans wouldn't show up because they've moved on. The movie—neither a hit nor a stinker—would simply go out with a whimper, just like any idea whose time had come and gone.
Amen to that, "like any idea whose time had come and gone." Later for real this time.
Updated, once again, several hours later:
Apparently, blog, I just can't get enough today. I did an errand, went to a coffee shop, read my homework for my class and scribbled on a big post-it something I was planning on appending to this post. Now, though, I think I'll append something slightly different.
Recently my mind has been taken up almost entirely in the things that I am studying, although (to me) this isn't really translating to this space. I think that's sort of a time issue. My posts since starting up school again full time have been more rushed and less thought out; more reactionary than anything else. In general I feel rushed and jumbled and worn out. I can't say I like that. I read a couple of articles recently about how meditation is supposed to be good for your health in the long run, and I'm thinking of trying it out to help me clear my head. (Are there books where you can learn that? No idea.) I want to take the time to write about the bigger issues I deal with in my classes that have me excited. Here's a pledge to try and make time and brain cells available to do so in this space. I think writing about it regularly and in a more measured way will help me de-jumble my ideas and reactions to the things I read and discuss in my classes.
Okay, that's seriously it for the day.
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