Odetteroulette, don't be upset! She made me do it. This is my cat's response to HWIH. 

After grudgingly agreeing that he is, in fact, handsome, Asuka demanded I take her picture so that others can admire her beauty.

"I am so Beautiful. I am Regal, too, and a… Read full post »

Maybe we do know. Maybe we just choose not to think about it.

The rhetorical question is, why do women so frequently go to extreme lengths to avoid directly rejecting guys?

Maybe this has happened to you: You're out somewhere, maybe at a party or a club, maybe just at the… Read full post »

Once upon a time, very long ago, I had two fairly straightforward goals in my head, and they filled my entire consciousness. The first goal was to move to Los Angeles, and was easily accomplished by dropping out of school and making use of my tuition refund.

The second goal… Read full post »

I've been noticing some really interesting blogging on the issue of Prop 8, which (tragically, in my opinion) was passed. 

There was a small amount of speculation that maybe people had been confused about what it meant, but I doubt there was really much confusion.

As my boyfriend said to… Read full post »

Halloween is coming! I can taste it, and it doesn't taste like candy, it tastes like excitement!

For as long as I can remember, this has been my favorite holiday.

I'm one of those people who gets all excited when it storms, for no particular reason. To… Read full post »

I opened up the supplies cabinet at work the other day in search of an ink cartridge for the printer and found nothing but pastel pink and blue. You know what I'm talking about. It's that moment in which you realize that you have been had by Hewlett-Packard.… Read full post »

 Once upon a time, at a period when I was really nose to the grindstone, I decided it was time to ge the cats fixed.  I was correct in this assessment, and as I have cats of both genders, there was no time to lose.

So off they went to the… Read full post »

In the bizarre journey that is my life, I find myself at a most interesting rest stop.

One of my current jobs, and soon to be my only one, is working at a metaphysical bookshop.  It's not something I sought out, per se, but I saw the job ad and… Read full post »

I'm instinctively against using the word 'competitive' to describe our students, especially in this goal-oriented context.  I understand what is wanted really is for our schools and students to be able to compete academically with those elsewhere in the world, and that's certainly a worthy goal,… Read full post »

Okay, it has been a really boring day here at the office.  My wrists ache because I've been unable to occupy myself in any way that doesn't involve the internet.

And I think it's just generally a good time to be silly.   So here are some of my favorite limericks.  If… Read full post »

It’s such an odd era that we’re living in right now.  It’s an era of radical change and it’s an era of staunchly clinging to old ways. And I don’t just mean politically. 

 Even when I was a child I knew that despite the way “the system”… Read full post »

One of the elements of learning that I think is sorely lacking in America is a focus on foreign culture.  Yes, foreign language classes incorporate a certain amount of this into their curriculum, but they leave much to be desired.

My own high school experience, which took place in a… Read full post »