New on Backwash: “Sick in More Than One Way”. I couldn’t think of much else to write about while I’m ill, so I tried to write something about issues of control and I wound up doing another pity column. Can’t help it; when my body’s this bad, it makes the other things in my life feel worse and worse.
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Well, now I know why I was so tired Tuesday night: I was fucking sick. I caught a massive cold, and of course I still don’t have my insurance card from UT even though they made me pay for their health insurance coverage this year. (You can always tell how whiny I am when I use so many italics in the first couple of sentences of my post.) Anyway, I didn’t miss any classes, but I did have to skip a couple of meetings I…
Good grief, what a night. This semester is going to take everything I have out of me. Because I know I’ll probably get on a big drama queen binge later (who, me?) and deny it, let me say right now that I really do like all the new people we’ve got in Spectrum, and it looks like we’re going to be able to do some really cool things. And I’m not just saying that because I won the 45-minute marathon game of Egyptian Ratscrew earlier…
Well, my voter registration card goes out in the mail tomorrow. Everybody happy now? I swear, though, if I get called in for jury duty during finals week I’m going to take it out on all your asses. Oh, and in light of the recent “we hate PC speak but the rules, as usual, are different for us” conservative diatribe about a certain q-word being used to describe the situation in Haliburtonland (formerly Iraq), and now this bullshit about Sunday’s Doonesbury, allow me to just…
New on Backwash: “Whatever Happened to Liberalism?” A quick rant (I’ve got stories to work on for my classes this weekend) about how the media has distorted politics so as to be all about big business, and remove the possibility of true reform. And I’m going to register to vote despite that?