Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Before December

and I already have my Christmas letter ready to send out, most of my Christmas presents bought and wrapped, and most of my classes wrapped up and done.....

IRB approval

I just got my approval to start collecting data for my thesis!!!! Start early... finish early?

Friday, November 25, 2011

Amazon Prime

Amazon has been giving me a free prime account for three months but just took it away from me when they checked out my account for something else and realized I shouldn't have been on the prime anymore without paying their $40 fee... I miss my free shipping!

Friday, November 4, 2011

Always wanting something else...

Christmas wish list:

Better bras
An awesome phone that works perfectly and is drop-resistant
Geocache account
Movies in Spanish
Penélope cruz movies (I have Volver)
2dye4 shirt that will fit me
awesome black work shoes that are fit for old ladies with delicate feets
An extra pair of glasses just in case
really nice razor (you know those single razors for $10....)

Only practical and useful things
(like food or something more imaginative or useful in other countries/travel?)

I am not a perfectionist, I just don’t like to make mistakes

There was a really cool picture submission for the Embracing Our differences poster competition, it was a garden with smooth green grass and daisies all around. There was a short picket fence in the center that was in the shape of a circle and took up about a quarter of the grassy area. A sign in the front proclaimed, “Reserved for the perfect.” Sometimes I think about this poster and I find humor in the fact that there was nothing but grass and daisies inside and outside the perfect garden. This Eden was too small for more than a couple persons, though it was empty. None of use are perfect, and why would we want to be? We would have no company and if we did it would be way too crowded to enjoy the little garden of paradise. Perhaps it is the ego that believes in perfection and there is not enough space for more than one “perfect” ego in the world. More than likely, as this was a poster embracing differences, there is not perfection in the literal sense. There is only humanity, we find perfection in our differences. 

(Yesterday)


Today in psychology we had to give our own personal definitions of sexual desire, write them on cards anonymously with our gender and sexual orientation and then the teacher read some out loud and we tried to guess if the descriptions fit for a man or woman and of what orientation. For each one she read, the class guessed female and straight (as that is the majority of the class). She started to read mine, immediately a girl yelled out, “man” and then when the teacher had finished she confirmed that this must be of someone who was bi, and she seemed pretty adamant too. Apparently my sexual desires are perceived as those of a bisexual man, should I be alarmed or is this just New College Shenanigans? 

Verbal Dyslexia


Glabbady Glore
Words are sore,
Abused and eaten
They’ve been beaten

Tip of the tongue
Freudian slip
Word puns
Give me the lip.