Why, Tyra? WHY?
Okay, I’ll admit: I don’t harbor any particular fondness for Tyra Banks. Yes, I watch Top Model, and that’s a whole other post waiting to happen.
For those who don’t watch the Tyra show (or who, unlike me, don’t have a wife who keeps you abreast of stuff happening on the show), she periodically does these […]
(Grad)GPA woes
It’s funny. When I was at the end of my undergrad career, everyone told me how once you get to graduate school, what really matters is the work you produce and the ways you contribute, and not so much your grade point average. By grad school, they told me, it’s your thesis that really matters, […]
Honey, I love you, but you’re getting fat.
According to this article, that would be the ideal way mothers of “overweight” girls should address their daughter’s weight. The study found that, on average, mothers thought that their daughters who were “normal” or under-weight were unhealthily thin, while their overweight daughters were “normal”. In a world where young girls are increasingly concerned about body […]
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Monster House
So I’m conflicted. I saw Monster House earlier tonight, and I can’t decide if I really enjoyed it, or I really hated it. I know most of the critics tore it a new one (or, since it’s a film, I guess they just tore it a first one), but the overall story was pretty good […]
Tortillas, and home
It’s funny how the food I loved as a child has come back to sustain me in grad school.
When I was little and we were poor, one of the staples - if you could call it that - was butter tortillas. All they really consist of are one tortilla with some butter spread out over […]
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Fat Diaries
A couple of days ago I made a post on a Livejournal community I frequent, asking if anyone would be interested in a 1000 Journals-esque project about/for fat folks. Nearly forty people responded, so it looks like The Fat Diaries are go!
Here’s the (tentative) plan: everyone will send in their mailing address, I’ll get together […]
NaBloPoMo
After two days in NaNoWriMo, I’ve all but given up on being able to finish this month. Rather, I’m tinkering along with something that actually has promise, but which just doesn’t lend itself to 1,667 words a day. But, even if I can’t come up with a novel in a month, I can at least […]
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Interviewing
One of the privileges of life as a student, or at least live as a student of private colleges and then grad schools, is that there isn’t much interviewing for jobs outside of school. As an undergrad, I had two jobs - first I worked in the kitchens, a job guaranteed to all first-year students, […]
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The criticisms of my students would serve as a good warning to visitors of Seeworthy: she talks too fast, she's too hard on us, she assigns too much work, and you have to be a dyke to get a good grade.
In other words, I'm a big, fat, queer, feminist meanie, and I am totally out to get you. Graaagh!
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