My Reading Project: Roald Dahl

So I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile, and here it finally is. I am starting a new reading and blogging project! It is all inspired by bringing my copy of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes back to Grinnell with me on my last visit home and also recently enjoying reading a chapter of The [...]

Stay-cation anyone?

I was so grateful to read this Feministing Community post over the weekend. “All this gas talk reeks of classism” discusses the media coverage of the affects of rising gas prices on Americans. Author “Smartlikeme” notes the way that news stories lament the loss of the summer family vacation, thus narrowing the focus of the [...]

Admirable Optimism or Annoyingly Ignorant Bliss?

Yesterday morning as I was performing some of my mind-numbing library bitch work I came across this story in yesterday’s New York Times. I rarely read full articles in magazines or newspapers when I’m at the library, something related to the fact that I have recently punched in and oh yeah I am getting paid [...]

Cut me some slack?

I’m a bit new to the art of blogging, and I am also freshly entering the world of writing for myself and not for a grade. Sometimes, it is hard for me to set deadlines and be efficient and write about things I am interested in posting here in a timely manner. Tuesday night was [...]

Tomato Plants Update!

As promised, an update on the status of my tomato plants: They aren’t dead yet.
Actually, they are growing too. I wish I had taken pictures of them before. They are growing strong along with their purple friend, but no tomatoes yet. Here you can see my three plants:

I’ve been watering them, but not really talking [...]

Taking Pictures of Food

A lot of people I know take pictures of their food. I’ve seen my friends do it, and the advent of facebook (that’s right, I am old enough to have pre-facebook college memories) has made this activity all the more apparent to me. I used to wonder about this. It seemed to be mostly students [...]

No power, no coffee!

Last night I was minimally alert when my more capable boyfriend got out of bed to close all of the windows during a storm. I woke up before 6 when I realized it was very warm in the room- the power had been knocked out and I was able to recognize I would need to [...]

Response to Daniel Engber’s “Fat-E” (A WALL-E review)

EVE and WALL-E surrounded by B&L ads

Auto, the Captain and EVE look at images of Earth
I saw WALL-E again. I could gush over it once more, like almost everyone else is doing- and I already started in an earlier post- but instead I want to take some time to write an intelligent response to a [...]

My brain hurts

A few days ago at work I saw the cover of the latest Time magazine with Nelson Mandela on the cover, with a story about his 90th birthday and leadership advice. To my disgust, it made me think of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab”. Here’s why.
I didn’t actually watch it, but I hear tell that a few [...]

Saturday housework

Chad’s with some friends for the afternoon, I think they are playing Doom the Board Game, and I’m waiting to hear back from a friend about possibly going to the park to play catch and hit a few baseballs, so meanwhile I am leisurely getting some things done around the apartment, like washing dishes and [...]