Gifts for the one you love
This will be my fourth Christmas with my partner; if you ask her opinion, she’ll tell you that last year, it was the year of the gifts, and this year? There can be no more gifts, because what on earth can you be expect to get someone who you have already been with for FOUR […]
Imposter Phenomenon
In the psychology class I TA for, we discussed earlier in the semester something called an “imposter phenomenon” - basically where you don’t feel like you belong, you’re not sure you’ve earned it, and you generally feel a little shifty about your whole situation.
That’s kind of how I’m feeling at the end of the semester, […]
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Who you callin’ a princess?
The night before we left Connecticut, we didn’t get to sleep until late. I made sure to pack everything in the Gamecube box; Colleen told me to pack it into the suitcase, but I thought I should leave it out, just in case. “Just in case” turned out to be “just in case I want […]
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Big Willy
You know, now that I’m looking at a picture of it, I’m even starting to get kind of fond of Sir Wilhelm. My aging digital camera, on the other hand, is a whole different story; I’m beginning to think about dubbing it Steve, and letting it find a nice dark corner to die. Is that […]
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More holiday miracles: the little Christmas tree that almost wasn’t
This year Colleen and I truly had a Chanukah Christmas miracle in finding our tree.
Here’s the story. When I was growing up, our tree was the kind of thing that could make you cry just looking at it, the kind of tree that you’d imagine the Grinch using just to spite Christmas, the kind […]
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Fatty. Fat fat? Fat fat fatterson.
Fat fat fatty. Fat faterson fatted fat fat fattest fat McFat. Fat fat fat fat? Fat! Fat, fat fat fat fat fat fattish; fat fat fatification fat fat fattylicious. Fat fat? Fat.
I think that’s an accurate summary of these past two weeks. Fat in the paper. Fat on TV. And oh, so very much fat […]
The only (lonely?) Jew in El Cajon
Every year, I have this tradition of buying a Chanukah menorah for - you guessed it - Chanukah. It’s not because I’m particularly careless; I don’t keep losing them from the year before. No, it’s just that since I’ve started trying to actually observe the holiday - that is, doing more than just singing the […]
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Thick
I just had a sudden, terrifying flashback to the day Esther and I went on KUSI to do the interview.
First, there was the interview with Susan Lennon, whose gold sequined top made me feel vaguely like we should break out in a tap-dancing number. She was nice enough to me, but she sort of […]
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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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