My first football game and the minotaur |
So maybe you think I've been living under a self constructed rock of snobbery and hoity-toityness but in all my years of grad school (which is like, yo...
Posted by Diana on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:45:00 PST |
Rumor about myspace and employment |
So Judy told me other day that a woman she knew was advised to take down her myspace and facebook profiles in order to be employed as an academic professor. Apparently the person who advised...
Posted by Diana on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:24:00 PST |
atheists on deathbeds |
They say there are no atheists in foxholes and here is an atheist on her deathbed. This is a clip from Atheism: A Rough History Of Disbelief episode 3 with Jonathan Miller of a woman espousing he...
Posted by Diana on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:37:00 PST |
conversation with my grandma |
My Portuguese grandma (Vovo is what I call her) called me yesterday to thank me for a present I had sent her for her 74th birthday.
Vovo: How are you doing?
Me: Great! I just went on a trip this weeke...
Posted by Diana on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:18:00 PST |
i just cut my finger open |
I'm becoming more of an absent minded academic type every day. I cut my finger very open with a tiny swiss army knife and shpritzed (for those of you who are Yiddishly challenged this means spray) all...
Posted by Diana on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:31:00 PST |
Giuliani is a cross dressing ferret hater |
Maybe it's the result of hanging around with both conservatives and liberals the past few years or maybe it's because there are way more middle of the road republicans this primary season than there h...
Posted by Diana on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:20:00 PST |
humanEitarian |
In April I gave up eating meat that has been raised on factory farms. I gave up using cosmetics that have been tested on animals. I did not give up eating eggs, milk, or fish. And I have eat...
Posted by Diana on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:06:00 PST |
Iraq |
Every day the cries to leave Iraq get louder, more insistent and more immediate. I didn't understand the motivation for getting into Iraq immediately and I never supported this war. The...
Posted by Diana on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:28:00 PST |
nerdgasm |
A word I thought I just made up but in fact already existed (huh!nerds). I have started a dictionary entry here because I think this meme is just so damn cute. Add, append, or alter as you see fit.
Ne...
Posted by Diana on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:34:00 PST |
not just a biologist, also a boobologist |
Pert, perky breasts are considered more attractive. Evolutionary psychology has postulated that men prefer nulliparous women (women who haven't given birth) and breast shape, firmness and the placemen...
Posted by Diana on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:31:00 PST |
