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I am really, really tired of the phrase "man up." The last two times I heard it used, the "man" was bragging about how he "manned up" by (1) getting a little strip of his leg hair waxed, and (2) riding on a zipline, complete with absurd amounts of safety equipment, after several women had already done the same thing in front of him. So,...
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dulllifelesshair:
Getting your leg waxed and riding on a zipline is not what I understood manning up to be. 'Man up' is an instruction to be barked at anyone crying over nothing or whinging to stop doing what they're doing. Any man who considers doing such 'manly' activities as examples of manning up is not guilty of being a male stereotype, he is only guilty of the universal crime of being deluded.

I do like your usagel
mollymolly:
I have never even heard that phrase before.... confused

Maybe it would be fun to invent other phrases by using a combination of noun + preposition like that; the possibilities are many. Or maybe, I am just in a weird mood today....
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SNOW!! OMG!!!!!!11!!! SNOW!! eeek


Hee hee . . . I got to cancel class since the bus doesn't come here on its "snow route." No way I was driving. Texans + snow + driving = bad idea. Now I'm wondering what will happen if I get a teaching job in bumfuck North Dakota, a place that has abundant snow and sparse public transportation. Hmmm. How does...
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hephaestos:
it's actually not too hard, you just go out in a parking lot and dick around for a while. pretty soon you figure out you can't really stop and that it's a hell of a lot of fun to take turns with the e-brake on.
at least you're in good company out here on the coast. driving in snow isn't a skill folks up here have...
i honestly only came because you have a latin based name. i'm a classics nerd deep in my heart so i had to come check out your profile. at first i thought it was conjugated incorrectly but now i realize i just forgot my second person plural, perhaps.
hephaestos:
i took a lot of latin through middle and high school. as a result i'm quite rusty. we got up to reading through Caesar's "De Bellum Gaulicum" and that's as far as i went.
i'd really like to find someone to translate a quote by Aesclepius back into his native Greek so i can add it to my tattoo.
i find ancient ways of living to be fascinating. i started with the Romans and have been steadily moving backwards until now i'm very interested in the life habits and skills of our native groups up here and in general.
It sounds like you're more into the Latin side of things...true?
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First dissertation chapter? Finished.

Now, I sleep. Tomorrow, I come here to catch up with y'all and enjoy all the sets I've missed recently.

Final thought for the evening: commitment is kinda cool. I haven't eaten all day, so I was ravenous AND brain-dead after another 10 hour school day . . . . I come home to biscuits & gravy and beer, courtesy of...
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thursday:

sunday should be fine.
give me a call.


una:
Man, I just read your blog about the kkk student in your lit class. That's just another example of why I'm glad I'm not in school anymore (graduated last spring) the more I looked at the rules the more I realised that the institution is no longet purely about learning and expanding your mind. Maybe that 's why so many collage kids do phychadellics instead - maybe that's why I did phychadelics, who knows. But I digress, The pentagram was a couple days old when I shot that set last year. Now I have a calf sleave of pretty koi fish and 3 days ago I got the outline of my Octopuss done. It covers my right thy, hip and a little of the lower back. He looks so rad. I'll post a picture - I actually have a camera now!

Glad to hear that the dissertations partly done! Yippeeeee!
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Okay, it's been a while. I had to take a brief hiatus to deal with some stuff, but now all is good.

I just discovered the band Gogol Bordello. They are fucking amazing. What is perhaps most fascinating to me about them, though, is that their singer and my brother look EXACTLY alike. Same features, same hair, same moustache, same body type, similar mannerisms ....
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mollymolly:
Maybe your brother and that guy are, in fact, the same person! eeek I mean, have you ever seen them together at the same time? Hmm? wink

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you survived that yucky student. (Did she survive you, though? wink ) And that tiger kitty cub sounds supremely cute. miao!! blush I'd probably try to pet it and get my hand bitten or something, though.... confused
dulllifelesshair:
Flipping hell. I always wanted a big mad beard but never let my moustache go wild. As soon as it touched my lips I would trim it, if only to stop the really disgusting habit of sucking rainwater out of it. It was disturbingly tasty.
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Life has been good for the past . . . well . . . several months. I'm not used to that. I was discussing the sudden normalcy and contentment in my life and, as usual, her comments were eerily apt. She asked me if it felt like I was emerging from a dark, dank tunnel into the sun for the first time in a long...
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Why are there still bats all over the damn place? I mean, I like bats and all, but isn't it time for a turkey background or something?
throttlebitch:
Because SG is too punk rock to go to the birds?
dulllifelesshair:
They don't have the funds.
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First Annual Halloween-Themed Post:

During my breaks from heavy-duty and vomit-inducing intellectual activity, I've been watching "Ghost Hunters" on the Sci-fi channel. I've always been rather skeptical about the presence of supernatural beings in our world, but there is some really freaky shit on that show. eeek

Ever seen it? Do y'all believe in ghosties and goulies?

On a related note, are y'all dressing up for...
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You know, I had forgotten how many morons there were on this site.

Masturbatory, self-congratulating, vindictive, smug tripe parading as intelligent discourse . . .

And poorly-written at that.

Remind me to avoid the boards in the future. They hurt my brain in that "you're getting dumber" way.

Worse, even, than grading these damned SATs.
elleseven:
Ha!

Try the 420 board. Its my favorite. You expect that shit! But its all about the herb, man... (done in Brian's voice from Half Baked)
dulllifelesshair:
The boards here are very poor. Yas.
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I am currently working a part-time temp job scoring the writing section of the SAT. What does this mean? That at least one of the SAT scorer people is grading the things in her underwear and looking at nekkid women on breaks.

I cannot give specific details about my job, but I will say this: the young'uns gots it easy. If I were in charge,...
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throttlebitch:
Get off my lawn!

I wonder how many other SAT scorers are cutting out the internet and doing their job nekkid. Wait, that may be a little creepy. Maybe it depends on the essay topic.
cairo:
So that's how they score the essays? Yikes, I could imagine being frustrated by some of the stuff the kids manage to cook up.
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For the Unaware: I am a Dallas Cowboys fan. When your family has lived in the northern part of Texas, within two hours of the DFW area (if not in it), dating back to when "Texas" went by the name of "Mexico," this is a requirement.

As such, I am thoroughly [something] about tonight's game against the Bills. I don't know what the proper word...
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elleseven:
I don't get football.

but I like the image of you doing those things.
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elleseven:
two things:
I will be in motherfucking NYC on the 12th, and I don't have a car anymore.

also, Logan is fucking awesome. And I am very proud of Lucille taking charge....

p.s. I may have been wrong about the library being overfunded... The Law library is... and us stupid nonlaw majors can't use that library.

fuckers
elleseven:
The Met is definitely my first priority... then the MOMA... and I get to see the band Architecture in Helsinki in motherfucking Brooklyn, biotch!
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University Red Tape Is Stupid: An Epic Saga: Abridged Version

Once upon a time there was a foolish graduate student who thought, after passing oral exams, that she could take the summer off "officially," spend the three months on her dissertation prospectus (the normal amount of time it would take), and turn it in on the first day of fall term.

She was a foolish,...
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cairo:
Hey, you came back! smile
zarth:
And my source was Wikipedia. You may mock me privately.

To be fair, it's also pieced together with my general informedness on theology and history, but I may also just be talking out of my ass.