CC is coming to visit tomorrow. I am so happy about this! I want to make her a nice food present that she can eat when she arrives. But I cannot think of anything to make. It would have to be a dessert (she is arriving at night).
Problem: CC dessert favorites and YSA dessert favorites are opposite. CC likes what to me are fancy French-esque desserts. Like with fancy cheese in them. I like giant chocolate cake slices and apple pie.
Other problem: I know I should make CC's favorite dessert. But I don't want to eat CC's favorite dessert.
Is that wrong to want?
(Also, I don't know how to make CC's favorite dessert.)
Monday, March 9, 2009
Blog made prettier and maybe to change name
I made this blog look prettier. I am going to change its name to something less ahistorical.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Women mentoring other women. That's what the Weimar Republic (in Germany) was really all about.
Sheesh!:
a) Although law on prostitution of 1927 figures large in muskrat-like dissertation, just getting around to reading parliamentary debate on said law now.
b) These feminist ladies in parliament who were all about rescuing girls from prostitution and bringing them back to morality and order--yes, mentoring them (well, sort of--by "mentoring" here I mean locking them up in Catholic reformatories)--in parliament, these ladies were all like, "We are so psyched about this new prostitution law. And once we get our Protective Custody Law* we can really save lots of girls from prostitution! Yeah!"
*Protective Custody Law (weirdly not passed until Nazis took power despite support from ladies like those mentioned above, who were not Nazis by the way) basically allowed police and welfare workers to lock up whoever they wanted, sans any kind of judicial proceeding, indefinitely.
Woah ladies, now that's some mentoring! Shit, if I'd known about this I totally could have gotten that grant.
a) Although law on prostitution of 1927 figures large in muskrat-like dissertation, just getting around to reading parliamentary debate on said law now.
b) These feminist ladies in parliament who were all about rescuing girls from prostitution and bringing them back to morality and order--yes, mentoring them (well, sort of--by "mentoring" here I mean locking them up in Catholic reformatories)--in parliament, these ladies were all like, "We are so psyched about this new prostitution law. And once we get our Protective Custody Law* we can really save lots of girls from prostitution! Yeah!"
*Protective Custody Law (weirdly not passed until Nazis took power despite support from ladies like those mentioned above, who were not Nazis by the way) basically allowed police and welfare workers to lock up whoever they wanted, sans any kind of judicial proceeding, indefinitely.
Woah ladies, now that's some mentoring! Shit, if I'd known about this I totally could have gotten that grant.
Friday, March 6, 2009
New blog?
Dear reader(s), I am thinking about starting a new blog. What do you think? It could be about the usual stuff and also about the first year of being an assist. prof. I think I work pretty good with the year-in-the-life format.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thrown Under Bus By Sister Feminists
This feminist bookstore, which I support with my whole little womyn-loving being, sent email pleas for me to order coursebooks there and to urge students to shop there, not online, because feminist bookstore is part of community, does all kinds of events, etc.--unlike big online chain that threatens to eat it up!
So of course I ordered books for my seminar there and forced little dears to walk the extra blocks to shop there.
Yay feminism!
Then I went in today to pick up my "desk copies" (free copies that instructors get when they order the books--just one of our little scams) and...
Feminist Clerk: That will be $35.00
YSA: (having to stand on tip-toe to see over feminist counter) Not free?
Feminist Clerk: You have to say when you place the order whether you want desk copies. You did not say when you ordered that you wanted desk copies.
YSA: But why would I not want desk copies?
Feminist Clerk: You did not state that when you ordered the books.
YSA: ?? Fine. I will get them from the library.
I go to library--books not on shelf!--realize that that is because I placed them on course reserve, consider reading own books on course reserve in cage-like reserve reading room, realize that own students will see this and shreds of dignity will be stripped away, resolve to try to borrow books from grad student friends.
The moral: community, feminism--it's all out the window if you don't explicitly state, in writing, that you want desk copies.
So of course I ordered books for my seminar there and forced little dears to walk the extra blocks to shop there.
Yay feminism!
Then I went in today to pick up my "desk copies" (free copies that instructors get when they order the books--just one of our little scams) and...
Feminist Clerk: That will be $35.00
YSA: (having to stand on tip-toe to see over feminist counter) Not free?
Feminist Clerk: You have to say when you place the order whether you want desk copies. You did not say when you ordered that you wanted desk copies.
YSA: But why would I not want desk copies?
Feminist Clerk: You did not state that when you ordered the books.
YSA: ?? Fine. I will get them from the library.
I go to library--books not on shelf!--realize that that is because I placed them on course reserve, consider reading own books on course reserve in cage-like reserve reading room, realize that own students will see this and shreds of dignity will be stripped away, resolve to try to borrow books from grad student friends.
The moral: community, feminism--it's all out the window if you don't explicitly state, in writing, that you want desk copies.
Monday, January 26, 2009
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