legionnaire

i'm a bit late, however...



HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Farrrrrrrrk! Sorry I missed your Bday hon. Happy Belated.

I went to the protest and even got my picture in the paper on Monday (carrying) the no bush sign that looks like an anti smoking sign ... green shirt under the U on the front page ....

Its getting weirded though ... arresting people for anything last 2 days

"mouse breeding" haha

what a fantastic weekend. -- i spent mine recovering from moving (napping) and doing responsible things (going shopping with my wife like i promised, doing laundry). but it was still better than lugging around entertainment centers and sofas.....

re: the freedom of grad school. i'm actually SO bad about enjoying the freedom of grad school. i'm so protestant (and i'm not even protestant...), that i feel like i should always be working. what really happens is that i waste a lot of time during the day online or reading things i'm not supposed to, and i work sporadically off and on all day most days. i never really take 'the day off'' grad school. i just have godd work days and light work days. i wish i could get mor discipline, and work hard core most days so i could take some days just completley off. but so it goes. each to their own.

Hey, nice meeting you the other night too.

Sorry about the landlord troubles. I have been very very fortunate in NYC with my apartments and have never had a nasty landlord experience. But then again, I always rent from individuals and families, never rental companies. Good luck.

I was not around too much last week, due to my life taking off with me, and may not be around too much this week as well. But soon.

ARGH!! I'm so pissed, I didn't get your message until we were on our way home from the SOIA show. I bet it was a good night, though. I'll be back for the holidays, if not sooner. I can't wait til you come back to visit CA!! I'll go to that football game, I'm good at cheering and heckling.

so um, next sunday is good for you to come cook dinner for me, say around 7:30? yes? great. Take the Q train to park slope.

Oh, and even though Z says everyone that comes over to my place gets molested, It actually all depends on how good the dinner is first!

And yes, I will be hosting an XBox party within the next few weeks. Nerds only, please.




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First time I ever got props for a newswire sub. I didn't even notice it went up, thanks for tipping me off and (of course) thanks for the friendly note. Occasionally I get the desire to go crazy and really "make my mark" in the newswire, then I realize it's too much damn work. Sometimes something like that pops up, though, and it's hard to resist. Glad you liked it.

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[Edited on Aug 05, 2004 11:37AM]

its seems that i know a ton of homosexual women scientists, and no men.
i think that's odd.
granted,
im thinking of only top tier schools here.

Considering how I tend to pass out by 10 or 11 pm on the west coast, I think I'll just head over after we get in. We'll be too jetlagged to come back to the city after we head home, so we'll hang til like 9. I'll come in again, I'd just like to at least make the open event and also give a to Sita.

I can't say what it's like in science...and being a social worker meant being surrounded by women...

I think I had a bigger reputation in social work for being a bitch because I wasn't all soft and fuzzy. I have a very strict work ethic and insist on a level of integrity from my co-workers.

I've actually found that men, when I'd have to deal with them, would be much more responsive to that than the women I worked with. I don't allow bullshit and I think they appreciated that. (social workers can be very wishy-washy)

Now...I'm surrounded by boys and men...and I think the same kind of thing applies at first. I'm actually quite easy going...right up until you slack off or don't show me the respect I deserve. At which point I will let you know that you have crossed a line somewhere...and that while we're all casual, fine and good, I'm the fucking boss.

So long as we're understood...we're back to casual, fine and good. Meaning, don't misunderstand my easygoingness as weakness.

I suspect I could run into a bad reputation for being a bitch in this field...with some people...the ones who don't show me respect. But generally, the number of people who DO respect me is higher than those who don't. And it ends up being THOSE guys who develop the bad reputation for being assholes.

Or maybe, it's just 'cuz I'm a very likable bitch?

I've been reading Simon Baron Cohen's book "The Essential Difference", which isn't about monkeys per se but he says something about how sometimes 50% of adolescent male monkeys die in "manhood proving" fights with other monkeys.

Meantime, per your comment in my journal: TheFuckOffGirl wouldn't really join the site, it's not her thing, but she does like me to write about her and for people to comment. She has her own little cult of personality thing at SG without even being a member and she's quite pleased about that.

thanks for the encouragement! between your praise and the new offer of 15 army pts per, it really gives me a reason to stick it to the right! not that my articles aren't fair and balanced, but...

also, you should check out a great book called "The Journey of Man" by Spencer Wells, if you haven't already. he's one of the leading researchers of mitochondrial DNA and how it relates to our evolutionary origins from the first "adam & eve" fascinating stuff. for instance, did you know that the mitochondria in human cells were originally a parasite in the first single-celled organisms? they have been assimilated and now serve as the power plant of the cells. they are also more reliable in tracing back the DNA from us to the original than the DNA strands in the nucleus, mostly because of the lower rate of mutation.

hey, the more you know, right?

cheers...

actually, yeah that would be awesome.

we're still gonna hang out.
cos if we don't i'll have to cry.
well ok. maybe not cry exactly, but i'd be upset!

I've done that a few times. It pisses me off to no end. *sigh*

Gatorade and vodka? Hm....

Is it just me or is there a much higher loss rate of SG members??

I can't say I'm surprised

Not only by the republican machine...but by the fact that they'd refuse to acknowledge the 'smaller' people who help them out.

Seriously, it was stuff like that which influenced my decision to leave the field of social services. I LIKED what I did...I hated the bureaucratic machine...the policy makers who made all the decisions but weren't the ones doing the work.

I was union in my first job...and non-union in my last one. I can't say that the union helped very much in the first job...but it definitely made me feel better to have the bargaining tool there. To have what little protection they offered. I swore, after my last job, that I wouldn't take another job unless it offered membership in the union. Any union...