June 2011
4 posts
Reasons I Should Stick to Cats
So Ulysses S. Fish (who was initially named after Roman Ulysses, who is really just a poor man’s Odysseus, and this fish is definitely a poor man’s Odysseus, but one who had a really rough night, and is now really just named after the slightly terrifyingly incompetent former president because he doesn’t do much) is still alive.
And was living in a fish-cell with filthy water,...
Today in California World
Things I did today:
1. Bought a romper. Shut up. I had to get it out of my system.
2. Wore a total hipster outfit of slightly age inappropriate flowered dress, tights and jazz shoes/oxfords.
3. Discovered TheBloggess.com (I swear to god I have no idea how I lived without this blog before now). Shari, we are making that giant chicken thing happen.
4. Tried to figure out if I could write a...
Rambled Musings on the Nerd Question
In response more to Liz’s tumblr post: http://lizlet.tumblr.com/post/6769273233/bullet-points-about-being-a-girl-and-a-nerd-at-the than the actual question of the co-opting of geek culture by the mainstream (meaning that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with hot girls pretending to like comics, or liking them, or putting out into their PR that they have a “geeky”...
The True Value of Higher Education →
A great rebuttal, by the President of my alma mater, on why higher education is more than a commodity.
For the record, I went to college, in the words of my dad, “to get an education, not to get a job.”
I went to Macalester (and Bennington before it) to be a better citizen of the world: more compassionate, smarter, more informed, more engaged, more traveled and more fearless. Not,...
