A co-worker commented that I'm looking very "feminine" today.
From this, I surmised that on every other day, I look very unfeminine.
To translate the string variable to a numeric:
Feminine = 1
Unfeminine = 0
Let's not run the frequencies at this point. Needless to say, my feminine average tends to be on the low side.
Sigh. I guess tomorrow I will join a rugby team.
giraffe on April 15, 08[ link]
I'm reading a book entitled "The Fermata", by Nicholson Baker. It is, as Holden Caufield would say, a sexy book, but not in a good way. The protagonist is a 35 year old temp, who has the power to stop time, so that he can remove women's clothes and fondle them without their knowing. Maybe after I'm done, I'll write a treatment based on it, and submit it for a future episode of Heroes.
I need something better to read.
The Gore Vidal was good, but I got a little bored 3/4ths of the way through. To reward myself for finishing it, I re-read the first four books from the Anne of Green Gables series (childhood favorites), and then moved on to The Sign of the Beaver (which sounds like a sexy book, but it's not. It's about pioneers and Native Americans, you depraved minds). I'm tempted to stay on the childhood favorites track - they go down so easy, like candy. Better than tv! But children's books are kind of hard to get a hold of. Who has time to go to the public library? And I always feel self-conscious in the children's section, for some reason... like people will assume that I'm some barely-literate adult, or a creepy sad lady who wants to hug strange children. Irrational? Yes. But there it is.
Alice on February 14, 07[ link]
I'm trying to be productive, but today is threatening to be a vegetable soup-for-brains kind of day.
Mm. Vegetable soup. Sounds delicious.
There's a girl who works with me occasionally, who unfailingly reminds me of Stitch, of Lilo and Stitch. After much thinking, I've come to realize that the resemblence lies primarily in her wide mouth, and the arrangement of her small, white, pointy teeth. And her ears, which stick out like jug handles. And her big round eyes. And the fact that her arms are a little short, even for her compact body. And the fact that she talks a lot, very quickly, and in my mind all I hear is "rawkrawkrawkrawk."
But mostly, it's because of her teeth.
On the side, I've been editing dissertation papers for Korean PhD students. I respect that these individuals - so dogged, so meek and mild - are taking on a herculean task by writing their dissertations in English. I have trouble ordering at Korean restaurants, let alone writing anything in Korean. Their burdens are formidable.
But, after a couple of hours of editing, I find that the task of untangling their dense, senseless prose fills me with utter and complete loathing. I begin to hate those pale, undernourished students, with their sad eyes and their big heads, and their overly apologetic email messages. I hate them for trying to argue that
...for clinicians who advocate for culturally sensitive clinical practice, Hanson's theory can be a reference to defense the necessity of it.
or that,
...turnover intention has been widely used in the study of worker turnover because turnover intention is a strong predictor of actual turnover and assessing actual turnover is practically difficult.
And for stringing together meaningless sentences that are often paragraphs long, like some demented translation of a translation of Proust, until I feel like I no longer can tell what is what.
(Mm. Turnovers. With strawberry filling.)
Alice on February 13, 07[ link]
The thing about elevenses is that one is often tempted to have them at 10:30.
Alice on February 09, 07[ link]
As of today, I am instituting elevenses.
Meaning, between 11:00 and 11:30, Monday through Friday, we will be having tea and an appropriate snack. The snack may be an item constituted of some wheat, fruit, butter, and sugar combination - chocolate may be substituted, under the correct circumstances - and should by no means be consumed hot. If there are crusts, they may be dutifully removed, with a sharp edged knife.
Under no circumstances should milk, nor any milk-based product, be added to tea during elevenses. If a participant should breach this rule, he or she will be asked to leave our presence, and to finish his or her defiled beverage outside, on the curb.
I trust you have received this memo in good faith, and will abide by the new policy dutifully and graciously. A note: strawberry is the favored fruit preserve of this month.
/akk
Alice on February 07, 07[ link]
