Posts by sarcozona
Light and Shadow
From Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy: “It’s this, don’t you see,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, “you’re very much all of a piece. That’s your strong point and your failing. You have a character that’s all of a piece, and you want the whole of life to be of a piece too – but that’s not how it […]
You must have Asperger’s
I’m an introvert. I’m also somewhat reserved and emotionally careful. By emotionally careful, I don’t mean I have a hard time trusting or loving people. I mean that when I feel something, I think about why I feel that way, and that why shapes my response. These particular aspects of my personality annoy or frustrate […]
Paul Gosar (or his email writer) is an idiot
Paul Gosar used to be a dentist with some wacky political views. Now he’s my Tea Party Congressman. I used to think that politicians that seemed like idiots were merely pandering to the idiots that elected them. But I recently received an email that casts doubt on that view. I emailed Gosar several weeks ago […]
Music I never get sick of
I don’t know how many times I listened to this while crossdating today, but it definitely relieved the tedium.
Grad School Recruitment Weekend
I heard back from one of the grad schools I applied to – I made it through the first round and they want me to come interview! Interview isn’t quite the right word – it’s four days of socializing and meetings under a microscope benignly termed “recruitment weekend.” I’m somewhat terrified. I know as an […]
Out of my league
From Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy: An ugly, good-natured man, as he considered himself, might, he supposed, be liked as a friend; but to be loved with such a love as that with which he loved Kitty, one would need to be a handsome and, still more, a distinguished man. He had heard that women […]
Beautiful function
via Christina Schubert