January 2012
“WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Ensure that every child in America has...”
– The librarians need 11,000 more signatures on this petition…
wh.gov/Wgd
(via neil-gaiman)
I am teaching 2 classes this semester and counting both, I would say at least 50% of my students are Library Science and Information Technology majors. My classes have a reputation for being difficult and...
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I mean, the guys I have dated since I “officially” became an academic, or whatever? They don’t give a shit. To them, it’s a job. Including the dude I am currently seeing who, like any normal human being, couldn’t give an actual fuck about transatlantic modernism, so who fucking cares if I know more about it than he does? I don’t resent him because he knows more...
I will only add to this that the only men I have ever dated who had a problem with the fact that I was an academic were also academics. White, middle class male academics who didn’t have a problem with smart as much as they had a problem with competition. The whole idea of which is totally foreign to me — it’s a job, not a competition and I could go on and on about how I feel...
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Anonymous asked: Any tips on how to develop the ability to notice that you need to flip the switch (like before you're screaming and fighting with an innocent bystander)?
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Anyone else want well-intentioned but sketchy advice from my punk ass? It’s Monday, I can’t seem to focus on getting anything done, so, here we are. I can’t solve a single one of my problems, but I bet I can solve yours. Anonymous enabled, of course.
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hotblondecocktail:
My anxiety, and I said that like I’m a relationship with it, has been so bad that I’m dropping weight like crazy because for three weeks I’ve felt like jumping out of my own skin and not really eating, sleeping, functioning properly, etc. I started a new medication on Saturday but it takes 3 weeks (apparently) to take affect (longest 3 weeks ever), so to the Tumblrs, I ask:
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Talking Points Emo, 1/23/12
Well, it’s Monday.
I forgot to add to my list of all time favorite best documentaries “Bill Cunningham’s New York.” OMG, so good. And currently available on Netflix Instant.
Things I would rather do than write this week’s lecture notes for my Intro to Literary Analysis class: Rub bacon grease on foot and dangle it inches from the mouth of an alligator, pass a kidney...
If anyone’s really bored or procrastinating or whatever, I am starting to plan my defense outfit and need help. Make me a Polyvore set?
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My department has made it mandatory that all advisors run their students’ dissertations through SafeAssign to make sure they are not plagiarized. So my advisor did mine today and he got the reports back, and apparently my chapter on Gertrude Stein bears a suspicious resemblance to an online article called “Men Say Women Want Anal Sex,” which. Which.
2012 is so totally gonna be...
Dear god, why am I even still awake?
(EST: 1:39 AM) (Whut?) (Where am I.)
Anonymous asked: Five all-time top favorite must-see documentaries?
Anonymous asked: Besides the obvious, who else can be pimps?
Anonymous asked: Dearest minou, what should I make for dinner tomorrow?
(This is s.e., officially too lazy to log in.)
(This is s.e., officially too lazy to log in.)
duckandpenguin asked: Did you end up moving to Detroit after all or are you still in the $East somewhere?
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I’m awake. It’s Saturday night. I’m not going out, pants are off and I am done working. I would love to answer your questions boringly.
OMG it’s Saturday why are we all awake?
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I seriously have so much angst about changing my FB profile pic. I mean I know a lot of people who change theirs on the daily, and mine was starting to look a little “MySpace”-y for my taste but I am so against giving the impression that I care that I refused to change it. Plus for a while it was a pretty accurate representation of my state of mind. So tonight I steeled myself and...
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Random new followers: unless you can prove to me that you’re Lina, I’m not necessarily following back.
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But also you guys I almost forgot about ladies also being pimps! I may need certain lady pimps among you to start reminding me again.
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OK so I am totally into this training video now.
We are being asked to determine if the following would be considered sexual harassment:
Rick and Marcy work together at the same company but rarely see each other because they are in different departments. When they run into each other at a conference, Rick gives Marcy a hug and says “You look fabulous!”
Uh, no. I do not think Rick...
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This is actually kind of fucked up. These laws are no good for anyone.
Also the video is really beating up on “Mark,” the fictional floor manager. And of course “Hussain” works in the mailroom.
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Oh, nothing. Just watching my mandatory online sexual harassment training lecture. I don’t physically teach on campus, but I guess I could still be a sexual harasser. I’m sure the video will tell me.
This is in Maine, though. In Detroit I once taught, in a single semester, Mrs. Dalloway, The Sound and the Fury, Beloved, and The Road, and nary a peep of dismay. Except that the selections were depressing, but given that the class was called Topics in Fiction: Catastrophic Modernity, that seems like fair commentary.
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Did I not tell you about the rebellion by the more conservative students in my class one semester because I taught Marsden Hartley (both poems and paintings) and “why can’t he stop writing about how he’s gay?” “the paintings are disgusting” and “i found this poem gross and disturbing” (after i revealed that he was gay, of course). Yeah, without...
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In which.
I try to delicately explain to a student that I can no longer teach Push in my Modern African-American Lit course because I DON’T HAVE TENURE. I mean for fuck’s sake, I get enough grief for Beloved.
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Oh I would totally pepper-spray the owner, except I don’t think I am smart enough to use pepper spray correctly.
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I usually run or walk this loop near my house, and part of it goes through a nature preserve and in the winter the road is closed to cars. So it’s this huge area with trails and woods and road and rocks down to the ocean and anyway, people let their dogs off leash there. I think this is fine, because dogs really like to run around and people are almost always pretty responsible about judging...
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1/16/12
The day I finally found out about Azealia Banks. Because this song, you guys.
Also I wanted to tell you that when I found out that THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE (aka best doc of 2011) was on Netflix Instant, my palms got so sweaty that I couldn’t hold the phone. I was so excited I almost had to put my head between my knees. I realize this sounds like the whitest person in the world being all,...
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This “Acknowledgments” page is gonna kill me, you guys.
I wish it could just be an audio clip of that part on “The Dance” where Stevie Nicks says “Thank you EVERYONE!”
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“A recurring problem in Russian history is the desire of a part of its elites to...”
– Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, writes a manifesto explaining why he is trying to return to the presidency.
From the New York Times:
Vladimir V. Putin on Monday published his most personal explanation to date of his decision to return to the Russian presidency, rejecting the possibility...
God, I have depressed-person hair.
Did you know that today is the 20th birthday of “Little Earthquakes”? Which means that your gay ass better be drunk and screaming “MAYBE SHE’S JUST PIECES OF ME YOU’VE NEVER SEEN” at the wall of your empty apartment sometime within the next 8 hours. Pics or it didn’t happen.
Maybe part of an email I just sent one of my dearest friends. I’m not...
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True story? 20 years ago, I was a junior in high school and I got a care package from my mom that had a recorded cassette of “Little Earthquakes” in it. My mom totally discovered Tori Amos before I did, bought the cd, taped it for me, and the rest was history. And none of the other girls at boarding school had heard of her yet either, so for about a week my mom was the coolest mom on...
This is seriously a legitimate question that I do not mean to be provocative: Do you guys think you would feel any differently about this Hugo person if he wasn’t Denton-endorsed? Because the Denton presence looms large, you know?
Also that’s to say that I might be unfairly prejudiced because that reaction was so genuine and kind of in line with the point of the article. Either that or it was just that he was a lot younger than me.
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So not like it matters but a couple of years ago I was fucking this guy and he asked me, you know, where he should finish? And I was kind of in a mood, so I was like, um, my face? And dude looked at me like I was Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny all rolled into one. I mean I didn’t think he’d be that excited about it. Excited enough to stammer “Really? REALLY?...
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Before we get into this whole “facials” controversy? Let me just make clear that I love many of you dearly but I think you’re all wrong. Except L&R.
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Finish your dissertation, get to spend Wednesday afternoon in bed. This is not axiomatic. Yet.
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boggle-:
folkinz:
Mary J. Blige: Real Love
I...
I mean I could always switch to Verizon, but they don’t have shit for an international plan.
unfuckwithable said: Which liquor store are you registered at?
We call them “party stores” and the answer is “every single motherfucking one in Detroit.”
lifeaquatic said: My department head said one time a candidate’s family had a whole hot buffet set up at the back of the room before the defence began. He deemed it “inappropriate,” I deem it “awesome.”
I am a nervous puke-r so, probably not this. But I like the idea.
You guys, seriously. Since I will most likely never get married, this dissertation defense is substituting for my wedding day. Maybe I will be a bridezilla. I am already working on recruiting my maid of honor. Anyway, please expect me to continue to make a big deal out of this since it is probably the one and only time in my life I will get to make a big deal about anything that’s all about...