Apr 04 2008
This was a pretty stressful week for me. When I get stressed, I start to notice dirt/clutter and that makes me MORE stressed. But I’m stressed because I’m busy, so I don’t have time to clean.
This week, one of my housemates cleaned the kitchen and another of my housemates cleaned the bathroom. Unlike some of the other people I’ve lived with, I really love my housemates right now 
Mar 13 2008
Poor Brazilians figuring out who’s really screwing them over
John McCain thinks I’m a baby machine
Another university goes after the people who aren’t really cheating
It’s a computer, it’s a mouse brain!
Frida Kahlo, survival, and the stories we tell ourselves
Poorly trained campus police + assault rifles = dead students
Pulp fiction cover art (and atheists)
Dec 26 2007
amazing factoid: dr seuss’s name should really be pronounced “zoice” [to rhyme with voice]
From a roommate I surely traumatized. Karma’s a real bitch.
Nov 24 2007
After working for 6 hours on a research proposal this morning, I decided to do something about my kitchen floor. Two and a half hours later, I had cleared the following patch with comet and a stiff brush: 
Note that the bottom of the picture, which I didn’t get to today, has been mopped every week and scrubbed on my hands and knees every month since August. It looks vastly better than when I moved in.
The people who lived here when I moved in hadn’t cleaned much other than the dishes they ate off of for at least two years. One of those people is living here until December and I’m (frantically) trying to find someone to take his room. As one girl* put it on viewing his room/bathroom “how does he live like this?”
Needless to say, I am VERY excited about the free carpet cleaning in January.
*Other notable reactions: The girl who gagged and left quickly, the girl who refused to enter the room, and the girl who sympathetically asked “how do you live with him?”
Nov 07 2007
This month:
I’m really glad November includes Veteran’s day and Thanksgiving. With a few days off, I might be able to actually accomplish all of this…
That said, I had a fantastic cookie baking party a few days ago, a friend of mine cleaned my really and truly disgusting stove, I’ve got some awesome roommate possibilities, I’m spending far too much time thinking about a crush (and why I shouldn’t have a crush on her), and while research is intimidating and sometimes overwhelming, I love it.
