And…

…this is why I don’t do Black Friday.

One More Thing:

I’m thankful that, in reading old NY Times articles for my colloquium paper, I have discovered that they used to run headlines like:
“Queer Freak of a Boston Girl.”
They were so much ballsier back then…

Tanks, Andy.

This is the day each year that I get to be all reflective, even if I’m not forced to name what I’m thankful for before I can eat (and in that case, what I’m thankful for is that people aren’t allowed to laugh at what other people are thankful for, or the cliches that they [...]

Oh, Winter. Or: the Emergence of The Cold.

Here is a poem I wrote. It is called “Cold.”
Oh, cold, why must you
Do what you do?
Make my nose all stuffy
And make me all huffy.
I cannot breathe
And just sneeze and sneeze.
And eat entire bags of marshmallows.
Beautiful, right? No, really, over the course of 3 days, I ate an entire bag of marshmallows (the very ones [...]

Some perspective?

You guys, read this article. It’s about seriously injured immigrants (some of whom are here legally/documentedly) who are getting deported (without giving consent) by hospitals that say they can’t waste their money on the rehab.
I was going to pick out the story of one person as the most egregious, but I realized that I can’t do [...]

I take it all back

I take back everything I’ve ever said about Obama not being the second coming. I take back my lack of faith in the American people. 
I really cannot believe that Obama won–and I cannot be eloquent about this, because I don’t have the words.
Just know that I’m teary and goose-bumpy, and I, like the rest of [...]

Remember how I used to blog?

Whoa. I just started this entry, and made a typo, and then I hit delete, and instead of deleting, Safari went back about 3 pages. So now: reset.
And I’ve totally lost my train of thought–a common occurrence today because I am very distracted by this election. Seriously, if Obama doesn’t win, I don’t know what I’ll do. [...]