Posts by sarcozona
What I’ve noticed
Beautiful liquid sculptures by Sachiko Kodama at Le territoire des sens. China sets up areas for protests, then says no one meets their requirements to have a protest. When I lived in China, I found that no one liked to tell me “no.” If they didn’t want something to happen they just made some sort […]
Minimum wage jobs
A while ago, my friend Marie recommended I read Iain Levison’s A Working Stiff’s Manifesto. I finally got around to it this summer. It’s fantastically funny and unfortunately true. I get the newspaper and dig through the classifieds. It’s the same old crap. “CAREER OPPORTUNITY!!!” screams an ad for a $6.25 an hour warehouse clerk. […]
Uh oh
I might have committed to too much this semester. Classes Plant Morphology Genetics Ecology Discrete Math Calculus based Intro Statistics Clubs Botany Club, president SEEDS, web coordinator, field trip project co-director, grant writer Tri-Beta, liaison with Botany Club Associated Students for Women’s Issues Work Project for Undergraduate IGERT award Project for Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental […]
Some days…
My feet, my bicycle, and the buses are usually all I need. I don’t mind not having a car. But the buses don’t stop near the grocery stores, and today there are more groceries on my list than I think I can carry home.
What she said
From Helen Boyd‘s She’s Not the Man I Married. The overwhelming pressure to conform to masculine and feminine ideals – or die trying – is constant. The obligation to conform is also somewhat invisible and harder to put your finger on. It comes out in …. the funny looks I get pushing an elevator button […]
A family tragicomic
I read Fun Home yesterday. You should read it too.
Interview!
I’ve got a scholarship interview tomorrow. Any money I get at this point will reduce my loans for the semester, which would be wonderful. I’m a little nervous and very worried that I’m going to have a migraine. Yikes! ***UPDATE*** I got it!