20100929

readings for one class

1155 pages! No sweat. I'm totally used to the grad school reading load by now. I was quite pleased that it was under $100 and even more pleased that someone else printed them for me. My only regret...

20100928

reading old journals

I'm reading through my old high school journals tonight, surprised at how little has changed. Some stuff still doesn't make sense, and somethings that I promised I'd change are still part of me. Here's a good one, circa 8th grade: April 6 2002 ...I want to list my favorite things. So here...

gender and body dissatisfaction

"It is estimated that about one-third of adolescent boys desire a thinner body size, and another one-third desire a larger and more muscular body.... Similarly, estimates of the number of boys who engage in weight loss strategies range from 21.5 to 50%, and the number of boys who are trying to gain...

20100927

first day of classes

First day off classes today. I was just a minute or two late after getting lost on my way to the building. I sat down, and pulled out my legal pad and pen. Wrote "204B - Sept 27". Classes? Already? Doesn't feel like it should be starting yet but, by the same token, it should have started a month ago. My...

Romeo and Juliet

  Ah, I love this song.  If you've never heard it before, don't watch the music video first. :-) If you have, then by all means enjoy this relic from 19...

Bike or walk?

Thanks to UCD Mobile, I can see how long it will take me to walk to my class tomorrow. Wow. A mile! Most people around here would bike. But I think 40 minutes of walking on Mondays sounds nice. I can...

20100926

Sushi with Sarah!

First, before I go off on photo tangent about sushi, Sarah's birthday present! Six bottle cap magnets! So fun and easy to make. In Carole King's Tapestry Bowl And then we decided to go get sushi...

Ditch Your Laptop, Dump Your Boyfriend

Here's a great NYTimes article that you should send to any college freshmen you know. Sage advice from grad students! It got me thinking about advice I would have given had the Times asked me for some thoughts... A goal for each semester was to have every professor or instructor know my name by the...

from Theavy

Theavy and I had lots of classes at Highland together and we bonded immediately. She would always take notes in Cambodian and I thought they were gorgeous (what a beautiful alphabet, right?!). So I...

20100925

20100924

PINK!

Unplanned. Bright. I was going to go for green as my theme for the quarter, but Target forced me into buying pink (I refuse to go white or black). And they match my little... whatever it's called. Couldn't...

20100923

presentation!

Behold! My presentation for Friday. Feedback/comments/critiques welcomed and encouraged. It is a timed presentation, each slide will be projected for 50 seconds. And I know my name isn't Natka Spaetzle....

20100922

the stranger... bowl.

Today, I walked by Armadillo Music and found two of my favorite albums on vinyl for $0.99. I've been wanting to display some album art in my apartment, so I decided to get them for art only, as I already...

20100921

20100920

last night

I thought about what I wanted to do my last night home. I like to go on nighttime drives, up past the capitol, to see the city lights. I also thought about giving some late night phone calls to friends to see if they wanted to hang out for a bit. But what I really wanted to do was...

20100919