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[Jun. 18th, 2007|10:57 am] |
Bitch, please:
Autism Debate Strains a Family and Its Charity
Many autistic adults despise this group because it doesn't actually, you know, have any members with autism even though it is called Autism Speaks. Of course, you wouldn't know that from reading the article, which defines the "world of autism" as non-autistic people (read: parents) with different ideas about how to "cure" it. Note the use of the phrase "dreaded neurological disorder" and the constant references to autistic "children," who apparently never grow up and develop opinions of their own :p |
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[Aug. 21st, 2006|01:41 pm] |
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I'm back for one day and what shows up? SNAKES ON A PLANE!! Mice. We caught three of the beady-eyed little monsters in a trap involving peanut butter, tupperware, and a long string attached to a stick. Now they're incarcerated in my blue trash can until we can figure out what to do with them. |
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[Jul. 31st, 2006|12:51 am] |
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So go to sleep and make the change
I'll meet you here tomorrow
Independence day
Independence day
Independence day
Independence day |
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[Jul. 17th, 2006|03:55 pm] |
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When I walked across the quad to check my mail, there were French students sprawled in various positions in the shade- looking bored, quietly making their "honh honh" sounds, trying to stave off heat stroke. They were here last year, too- I'd pass them on Emmanuel's airport runway of a sidewalk as it was getting dark. Where are they from? Who is showing them around the city? I'd like to know.
ETA: They're students from France, here to learn English (yeah, right). And currently they're being led in some kind of forced merriment in the courtyard. How badly do I want to teach a French student to swear? So, so badly.
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[Jul. 10th, 2006|09:58 pm] |
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| | so that finally I am ten percent free | ] |
Katell Keineg is eightdifferentkindsofnonsexualallrightabitsexualawesomeness. As it were. |
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[Jul. 7th, 2006|04:56 pm] |
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| | 5 o'clock beech leaves | ] |
So, I'm excited about my new job at the crazy mansion with the archivist who is brilliant and approximately ninety years old and knew the emigre psychoanalysts in Boston way back when. Also Murray who is bound and determined to have me write historical essays, dear God, and the one young guy, Steve, who appeared suddenly today and looks like a much taller version of Ben Bixby. I'm not perfectly sure what they want me to do yet and am I qualified for all this. So excited I almost forgot yesterday, when I searched for old classmates on Myspace (which by the way is SUCH a bad idea) and wanted to sink into the ground when I saw how many of them are already making money, going places, NOT that I'm jealous or anything...sour grapes, lack of so-called disabling neurological quirks, & co. On the other hand of course-- Item #1 of reasons for becoming an archivist: to govern my own tiny country of books, papers and photographs with grace and dignity and fairness. |
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[Feb. 13th, 2006|01:34 pm] |
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Mostly friends only. Comment to be added.
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[Feb. 12th, 2006|06:17 pm] |
Who is St. Valentine? What did he do?
Nothing for me, and nothing for you!
But you don't want a cow heart all wrapped up in gauze,
So here's a nice flower to put in a vase.
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[Feb. 6th, 2006|11:40 pm] |
about the Rolling Stones' Superbowl performance, courtesy of aol.com, my news connection to the outside world.
In "Start Me Up," the show's editors silenced one word, a reference to a woman's sexual sway over a dead man.
which sounds like:
You make a dead man
admire your method of exercising agency
as a strategy for reversing the uneven balance of power
inherent in a patriarchial gender-biased society
up to and including the private sphere
of intimate relationships
Oh yeah
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[Jan. 7th, 2006|07:46 pm] |
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| | blau spiegel | ] |
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| | Regina Spektor- The Flowers | ] |
Ok, I dunno if this livejournal thing is working for me. Although I love keeping in touch with people, I'm still a private person who gets anxiousty about posting her thoughts and/or having long self-discussions about hwhat this whole thing is for. Is going to take a break for a while and see how this works. Maybe later, photos from my new camera, yes? Ah. Being twenty-four is a riot. |
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[Dec. 31st, 2005|12:11 pm] |
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Going to Elkins, New Hampshire, where they have lots and lots of trees but no ocean. When I get back, I'll be twenty-four. Weird. |
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[Dec. 16th, 2005|07:55 am] |
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| | effing done! | ] |
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| | ice sliding off the roof | ] |
Good morning!
Thus endeth the second-worst semester of my grad school career. FINALLY. |
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[Dec. 13th, 2005|01:03 pm] |
To anyone I know who has an Amazon.com seller account- this email is circulating asking for your ATM PIN number and credit card information. Don't answer it! It's fake.
"Greetings from Amazon Payments.
Your bank has contacted us regarding some attempts of charges from your credit card via the Amazon system. We have reasons to believe that you changed your registration information or that someone else has unauthorized access to your Amazon account Due to recent activity, including possible unauthorized listings placed on your account, we will require a second confirmation of your identity with us in order to allow us to investigate this matter further..." |
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[Dec. 13th, 2005|02:05 am] |
TO-DO LIST, all before I leave on ThursdayFriday:
write 10 page paper on medical archiveswrite 8 page book review that is really an essaywrite 5 page paper on neural networkswrite 2 page glossary for cataloging> buy marbled paper at the art store for momsign up with RA for check-out time (3rd floor)take Ritalin take Ritalin take Ritalin take Ritalinkeep eating that yogurtwrite internship report and 2 page (approx.) memo go to last archives class? on Tuesday morning or I could sleep
call mom, tell her when I’m leavingsleep? when am I going to do that?pack suitcase, remember map of Harvard, presents, and light
boxtake books back to the library
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[Dec. 12th, 2005|05:41 pm] |
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Items:
1) Walking to Whole Foods today I looked up, up, and saw a marsh hawk overhead. The only lucky sign I know. Last May, on the day I finally broke out of this place a week and two days late, a redtail swooped right over me. Maybe it's my grandmother.
2) The Ritalin is working. Really I just needed to reduce the dosage a little. This is better than good, because without it I can't write a history paper to save my life, and I have three of them, and I can't stay here with a GPA under 3. |
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| what's a little frozen precipitation |
[Dec. 9th, 2005|03:29 pm] |
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| | Turkish delight sounds better than it tastes | ] |
Thunder+snow= thundersnow. I've been snowed upon by a Transformer. |
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[Dec. 7th, 2005|09:04 pm] |
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So I finished The Ha-Ha (it's short). Very good, actually surprisingly good, with a generous helping of first-novel blunders. I found out Sylvia Plath read it some time before her final breakdown, which is funny since it's a lot like The Bell Jar only less "bitch, please." Not to mention---"I thought Alastair would even laugh and explain it all in a rational way, and that the glass-cover that was over me would break"---Dawson's use of certain symbols. Hm. Obviously not machinating to one-up Ms Dawson, eh, Sylvia? |
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