Archive for 2013
Music for cutting part of your PhD project because no one would send you their code
Sunday Poem
Following Frida That mono-brow wouldn’t work today. Girls wax the in-betweens, the ups and downs, smooth, smooth. Sometimes, the greenery around the hacienda itches so much we sneeze and tickle, create unnecessary frowns, a slippage. There’s always Dr. Death, of course, his bright smile, that happy mouth inviting us to pout and make kiss shapes. […]
Music for hoping this week is better than last week
While you’re waiting for the bus
A semi-weekly list of stuff worth reading We’re All Bystanders to the Sandberg-Mayer Mommy Wars “But I’m sick of every conversation about women and work subtly morphing into a conversation about corporate-track moms.” A Morning Person After All? A Return to Normal With Ritalin Who are you without the illness? The children: Why a generation […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
A semi-weekly list of stuff worth reading How the Italians Do it: Furniture design for 400 square feet This furniture makes me happy Trying Ritalin for Migraine Prevention… and Loving It A lot of preventative migraine meds do a shit job of actually preventing migraines and have an annoying propensity to make you stupid & tired. […]
When everything is terrible
Helen Chappell on achieving with an illness: I won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship when I was 22. After the dean stopped by my office to congratulate me, all I could think about was that I’d never be good enough to deserve it, that I won it by some fluke. I stopped on the way […]
On the bright side
I shared a chart of my recent migraines with you all the other day under a singularly depressing title. When I woke up this morning yet again feeling like vomiting, “everything will be terrible forever” seemed like an even more appropriate description for my migraine log than it did last week. However, as overwhelming and […]