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Plans and headaches – self pity edition
From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda: One Friday I was driving home from work, thinking about my headache as I always did, when I passed a theater marquee that said the band Stars was playing that night. I smiled quickly at the the […]
Where are the other queer ecologists?
Being a queer scientist in the world of academia is a lot easier than being queer at my old tech support job or in the rural south where I grew up. By and large, the scientists around me are kind and accepting. Most scientists care a lot more about my statistics and ideas than they […]
Pretty Things
Sunday Song
Anthony Weiner’s Resignation
When I first heard about the pictures Anthony Weiner sent to some of his twitter followers, I thought it was funny, but not newsworthy. Or at least not as newsworthy as the amount and tone of the media coverage suggested. If the women he corresponded with didn’t consent to receive those kind of pictures, that’s […]
May
From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda: It had been a week now. Seven days. 168 hours. 10, 080 minutes. 604, 800 seconds of pain. Constant pain. It gnawed on my nerves with formless teeth as I sipped my coffee. It flicked at my […]