February 2011
43 posts
Thanks!
Thanks for the encouragement about grad school applications and my outfit on Saturday! It’s been so nice the past few months having tumblr as an escape and virtual support system. You’re all so fantastic!
January 2011
58 posts
Via the New York Times:
Mohamed Ibrahim Elmasry, a computer science professor at a Canadian university who has found a way to connect to Facebook from Cairo, wrote in a recent update on his wall:
People on bridge leading to Lib [Tahrir] Square calling for the regime to end - about 9 pm (although [curfew] 6 p.m. -7 a.m. in effect). It seems they will stay overnight on the bridge. They have...
The Camp Mug
beermemaine:
More ways to show your love for Maine in 2011! The LoveME Camp Mug is a classic mason jar style mug, perfect for just about anything. Take a set upta camp!
I don’t have a camp, but I think I’m still going to have to buy a set of these!
Patterns of Speech →
Check out the “freedom” one.
Streaming funerals
I definitely understand the appeal of webcasting a funeral: far-away family can see it, it can be archived, members of the military can see the funerals of fallen comrades if they wish. Personally, I can’t think of anything that would make me feel more lonely than watching a streaming funeral alone. I’m the only member of my family in the midwest, so if something happens, I don’t...
How Minnesota winters fuck with you.
I just went to take the trash out in knee-length sweatpants, a tshirt and winter boots. I wasn’t outside long, but I didn’t even feel that cold. It’s 21 degrees right now.
“Texas Governor Rick Perry said he will introduce emergency legislation requiring...”
– Margaret and Helen (via thetart)
Happy
I had a really great weekend. I went to dinner and The King’s Speech on Friday with a friend, was really lazy during the day on Saturday, and went to the roller derby on Saturday night. That was really fun and exciting. We got seats on the floor, and it was the championship bout, so the girls were going all out. I’m still confused about how they award points, (last night was very...
“Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that...”
– Barack Obama (via neverbehopeless)
“No woman would subject herself to such a place if she thought she had somewhere...”
– Michelle Goldberg on how a lack of access to safe abortion providers enables this to happen.
Philadelphia’s Abortion Doctor Arrest: The Need for Safe Abortions - The Daily Beast
(via ericasavestheday)
This.
(via joyengel)
Funniest article about government subsidies you'll... →
It's currently -9 degrees F
Feels like -26 degrees F with the wind. So what did I eat as soon as I came back from sitting by a gas fireplace at a coffee shop? Ice cream. Peppermint ice cream.
That’s normal, right? That’s not the first sign one in a long string of signs that I’m descending into insanity, right?
My absent-mindedness is going to cause problems.
Tonight while I was cooking dinner, I put a beer in my freezer because I forgot to put it in the fridge when I bought it. This is the second time I have done that and then forgotten about it until at least 2 hours after I’ve eaten. I really need to just put my beer in the fridge when I buy it, because I don’t want to clean up an exploded bottle of Fat Tire from my freezer.
I feel like Tumblr is a big couch and we're all...
dressesdancingandtv:
mclobstah:
dressesdancingandtv:
mclobstah:
I am super bummed right now that I don’t have a tv. Thanks for liveblogging the awards, though! I feel like I’m watching.
You want a link girlie? I am watching a livestream online!
I clicked on the one you posted earlier, and nothing came up! :(
Ok wait, try again, I might have typed it wrongly!
...
I feel like Tumblr is a big couch and we're all...
dressesdancingandtv:
mclobstah:
I am super bummed right now that I don’t have a tv. Thanks for liveblogging the awards, though! I feel like I’m watching.
You want a link girlie? I am watching a livestream online!
I clicked on the one you posted earlier, and nothing came up! :(
I feel like Tumblr is a big couch and we're all...
I am super bummed right now that I don’t have a tv. Thanks for liveblogging the awards, though! I feel like I’m watching.
“One thing to say about this David Brooks column: What separates constructive...”
– Andrew Sullivan, again crystalizing the issue in a way that I really love. The op-ed he’s talking about is here.
I remember when I first truly understood the difference between the words progressive and conservative. I’ve come to think that that difference in mindset is actually much...
“Notice the paranoid and conspiratorial word: “manufacture.” Now...”
– Andrew Sullivan, on Sarah Palin’s video response to the shooting in Tucson.
I'm sort of worried
About what someone would think if they watched me listening to the Amelie soundtrack on my ipod. I seem to be incapable of listening to it without waltzing with my head… But I love it too much to ever stop listening, so obviously my love outweighs my fear of being called out as a crazy person waltzing in her seat to music nobody else can hear.
How to impress people at a dinner party
Bake your own bread. It’s really easy, and people are always amazed. I had a dinner party last winter where I made a stew-like thing and this bread, and my friends didn’t believe that I had made it myself. And I don’t have a pizza stone, so I just use the loaf pan method, and it works really well.
However, if you decide to make only enough dough for 2 loaves, don’t convert...
