her own eyes

because at the end of class the professor made a little speech and everyone clapped.

also due to my extreme dawdling in the morning i didn't catch the bus until 11:25 (class started at 11:07) and apparently my monthly t-pass had expired even though i thought that when i got it the lady said it would automatically renew at the beginning of each month. i believed her so completely that i had actually meant to cancel it for may but forgot. anyway, i only had fifty cents on me so i just stood awkwardly at the front of the bus all the way to harvard square not sure if the bus driver was going to kick me off or not.

i was going up to my room and the door was opening as i got there.

i assumed it was my roommate, so i yelled "boo!" really loudly.

but it wasn't my roommate (of course), it was the guy who cleans our kitchen.

bu hao yi si.

i made a quick trip to laverdes to get spaghetti and pasta sauce and i spent way too much time wavering between "thin spaghetti" and "spaghetti."

i ended up getting thin spaghetti and now i'm pretty sure there is about 0 difference between the two.

more current: goodbye to all that. (link from ana)

less current, still juicy: witches, midwives, and nurses (link from my 9.68 professor)

we read an article for my gender & media studies class about portrayals of female characters in video games. it talked about zelda (and seemed to be written post ocarina of time), but surprisingly (to me) didn't mention sheik. since we're supposed to be thinking about final paper topics, i thought, ooh, i could write about the evolution of zelda as a character.

then i did some preliminary googling and found that someone already did their thesis on the topic:

The Princess and the Platformer: The Evolving Heroine in Nintendo Adventure Games

so maybe i won't do my paper on this topic, but it's an interesting read if you're at all interested in video games/feminism.

no one else was as excited about my absentee ballot as i was, for some reason. i guess growing up with politically active parents just made me kind of love the political process more than i should? meanwhile my peers are like "i don't believe in voting" or "stop taking pictures of your absentee ballot already."

anyway. for dinner today somehow i ended up having a dr. pepper and chocolate tastykake cupcakes. not nutritious but so delicious!

somehow me trying to prevent spammy comments led to a whole blog update. it will prolly look like this until i'm not-lazy enough to change it. (also now it should be easy to comment!)

i just found all these secret comments that y'all left for me that i never approved because i completely FORGOT that i had changed the comments settings to allow everyone to comment, pending approval.

so thank you, kamber, rian, keri, chris, ryan, & jackie. and no thank you to the millions of spam comments those real comments were buried amongst. i really need to find an easy way to allow everyone to comment while keeping out spam. but for now, you shouldn't have to login to comment.

ALSO i earned $30 yesterday for sticking my hand in 3.9 degrees Celsius water for five minutes in the name of research.

this video was posted on feministing and it really made me think. you can say what you want about not having the time to talk to strangers on the street, the interviewer being an attractive woman so straight guys want to talk to her, guys just want to be on teevee, etc. but i think that's beside the point.

especially when after having a conversation with my roommate about how maybe the women just didn't want to be on teevee but secretly had opinions, i realized that SHE refuses to ever discuss her political opinions (even with her friends!).

i've definitely got better at expressing myself as i've grown up, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded to speak up. so that's why i'm posting this. as a reminder to myself and maybe you. fight the patriarchy!

thomas' bagels have high fructose corn syrup in them. is that really necessary?

pepperidge farm bagels fortunately do not, but laverdes only had plain and sesame left and i am an everything girl.