We’re all Kenleys today.

I don’t talk much about pop culture here, probably because I’m too busy whining about school and work and stuff. On that tip: still working on the diss. proposal. Made it through one “bad” draft which was, I kid you not, faulted mostly for being badly written as opposed to full of bad [...]

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Saturday A’Bed

In my “about me” section, I mention that I like to make “jacked-up stuffed animals in my spare time.” Today, instead of using my written-off day to catch up on emails, and work stuff, and dissertation stuff, I made a starfish. Like me, he wishes to maintain his anonymity, so you only get [...]

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Not unless you consider navigating England’s middle class marriage market “action.”

You mean the whole point is they’re trying to get married? There’s not going to be any…action…or anything?
–my father, after watching the first hour of Pride and Prejudice
So I was supposed to be out of town this weekend, but instead I’m stuck at home with a cold. Despite my best efforts and liberal [...]

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You see, I am easily annoyed.

Hi.  I am happy to report that I have gotten over my recent and ill-advised whining, crying, and heavy sighing the only way I know how: America’s Next Top Model Marathon.  I am also lucky in that I have absolutely no shame about my tv-watching habits. I come from one of those departments of oneupspersonship [...]

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