August 2010
I hate...
When the letters keep moving due to being drunk.
July 2010
My dog
guards his toys whenever my sister is around. Like pulls his ears back and then growls his low, suspicious growl and grabs them.
I love this dog.
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I can't wait...
Until my pre-shift butterflies go away. Today will mark the end of my first week off of orientation. I still start every shift feeling like I want to vomit and proceed from there. By and large, things haven’t sucked and no one has died (*knocks on wood*), so I have that much going for me.
It’s hard going from never being responsible to being the person who has to make all sorts of...
Michael Jackson Demonstrates Power of New Google...
glark:
Google Image search for Michael Jackson with “white” color filter
Google Image search for Michael Jackson with “black” color filter.
Here's what white privilege sounds like... →
notemily:
hereinspain:
mycultureisnotatrend:
adailyriot:
[Note: This article appeared in the Baltimore Sun newspaper and was written by a Caucasian professor of journalism at the U of Texas. A followup piece can be found here. ]
Here’s what white privilege sounds like: I’m sitting in my University of Texas office, talking to a very bright and very conservative white student about...
Goddamned Microsoft Word, why the fuck would you freeze up and eat a whole paragraph of pure gold?!?
“Karen: God. My hips are huge!
Gretchen: Oh please. I hate my calves.
Regina:...”
– Filing this puppy away for possible use in my paper, because I feel like I can’t pass up the opportunity to incorporate Mean Girls into a graduate school paper.
“Now experts are pondering the many questions raised by the news.
Can it be...”
– Advance on AIDS Raises Questions as Well as Joy - NYTimes.com
I love that we (the US) shoot first and ask such questions later, given that we’re using African women as our test subjects. By love, I mean, of course that it makes me wring my hands a little bit.
“Other work shows that elementary school age children believe obese children are...”
– Puhl, R.M., & Brownell, K.D. (2003). Psychosocial origins of obesity stigma: toward changing a powerful and pervasive bias. Obesity Reviews, 4, 213-227.
I'm making my paper writing face...
and I hate it. Let me please just get this over with, so I can enjoy a modicum of summer. Of course, I can’t help but wonder whether it’s still summer if you work full-time. Seriously, how am I going to pass time when I no longer have school to bitch about.
A Shot That Saves the Lives of Addicts Is Now in... →
abbyjean:
In a haunted world of heroin and hurt and heartless hustles, located between a dusty brickyard and rusty railroad tracks along the border of Chicago and blue-collar Cicero, Steve Kamenicky is the go-to guy. Longtime addicts and novice users seek out Mr. Kamenicky, known as Pony Tail Steve, sometimes in the middle of the day, other times deep into the night. They go to him, usually in a...
“You can insult us all you want about television ratings, Mr. O’Reilly, and...”
– Rachel Maddow
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“My patient: What do you call a sleepwalking nun?
Me: Hmm, I don’t...”
“When Laurie-Ellen Shumaker, 59, was laid off from her job as a lawyer for a...”
– Frustrated Unemployed Woman: ‘Interviews Are Like Seeking Unicorns’
LAZY GRANDMA HATES WORK, FREEDOM
via atrios: sexartandpolitics
better not extend her unemployment benefits or she’ll have a clear incentive to slack even MORE.
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