On Ask a Humanities Grad Student, Part One: Scotch and Lentils
@tigolbitties I also did my undergrad at Vandy. Graduated five days ago, actually! I'm leaving Nashville for grad school though...sad.
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On Moms
@CountessMaritza As someone who just graduated with a degree in violin performance all of three hours ago this story makes me smile. I love how our relationships with our art and the people we love intertwine.
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On Ask a Clean Person: Laundry School - Bras and Mildew and Taffy, Oh My!
@falconet I am also a 32 D-and-a-half (and I am not postpartum, woe betide me if I ever get knocked up) and I find Wacoal to be a consistently good brand. They are supportive and have some pretty ones that don't look like orthopedic devices (5-hook sports brawr I'm lookin' at you). Downside: Pricey. In the US they run $40-60. Upside: They last for years if you take care of them.
Also: YES hippie deodorant, I always thought those stubborn pit stains were sweat, but nope, apparently it's aluminum hydrowhatever that's in conventional antiperspirants!
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On Big Day for Marriage
@S. Elizabeth I guess I see your point. As one of the 39% of North Carolinians who voted against yesterday, I sure would have appreciated his speaking up a little sooner. Who knows if it would have helped the whole amendment one debacle, but you never know. From this vantage point it just seems like too little too late.
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On Big Day for Marriage
What, it took him four years of presidency to grow enough of a spine to make a statement publicly agreeing with an opinion that every thinking person has held since it first became an issue? And not only that, but to fill the statement with so many unnecessary modifiers and awkward pauses that it would be difficult to imagine a more lackluster expression on something so vitally important to millions around the world? Color me unimpressed.
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On North Carolina's Proposed Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
I voted against this morning!
There was this awesome old redneck hippie guy outside the voting place encouraging everyone who walked by to vote against the amendment if they were in favor of equality and justice and the constitution. I talked to him for a while, he was hilarious and awesome (quotes include "I'm a reformed hoarder" and "Back in the day I owned seven night clubs" and "I make the best barbecue sauce in the state, but I'm vegan now because of the heart attacks").
I'm trying to focus on the awesomeness that is Denny to distract myself from the fact that this travesty of an amendment will probably pass and that very thought makes me want to vomit. I love my home state very dearly and am a southern girl at heart, but seriously thank god I'm moving to Massachusetts in August.
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On The Finger-Wave Hair Tutorial
My hair is way too short for me to even dream of doing finger waves, but I watched this just to bask in the awesomeness that is Jane Marie. <3 u, Janie!
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On Painfully Wide Awake
@Laughable Walrus Oh, HA, I basically just posted the same thing. HOLLA end of undergrad!
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On Painfully Wide Awake
This explains the sudden spike in thesis-writing productivity between midnight and 4 AM.
Also, you know, the entirety of my undergraduate degree in music.
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On Ask a Humanities Grad Student, Part One: Scotch and Lentils
@CountessMaritza
SECONDED. People started this shit with me in high school (I am a violinist and have wanted to play professionally since I was 7) and I am pretty tired of it. If I thought I would be happier being a business person and living in a nicer apartment and drinking expensive wine I would do it. But guess what, if I'm not doing music I'm miserable and that's not a price I'm willing to pay.
I wonder sometimes if people are snide about people who do what they love for a living because they feel badly that they don't have something that they love like we do. Or that if they do they didn't have the guts to put up with the hardships and turn it into a career.
Tl;dr Haterz gonna hate.