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gina_r_snapeSo I took the day off work yesterday to get some things done. I slept late, went to University, and got some fresh air. Not bad, all told.
On Sunday evening I went to dinner with my friend CR and after a few drinks I think we may have had one of those ribald conversation that show up in "overheard in NY." Well, all I can say is, she makes a fine drinking companion. She's a new friend, and I do hope we'll hang out more. When I got home last night I saw the Noel Fielding videos I posted yesterday and between that and our conversation, had a very nice dream. Alcohol does funny, lovely things to my dreams.
But more importantly, yesterday I sat in the doctoral student lounge and got more done in two hours than I have in a month. It felt good. I also went to the library and nearly every book I needed was located at another branch of the school library. So now I have to wait for them to be transferred and go back to campus to pick them up. It's so annoying. I really should just utilize my library privileges at the other Universities where I've taught.
I browsed through the Encyclopedia of Homelessness while in the student lounge and discovered it has no entry specifically on LGBT homelessness. Only the section on youth had, oh, two sentences on it. And those specifically spoke about gay youth (yah, as if all LGBT homeless youth are gay and male and cisgendered, and as if saying 3 - 10% of homeless youth are gay is the end of the story). Talk about minimizing and invisibility. I also found, while running frequencies on my data set, that a full 50% of respondents had an income under $30k for 2007. I find this shocking and dismaying, and a clear sign that I'm going in the right direction with my thinking. I need to find out what were the mean and median incomes in the state of CA for that year. Anybody have an idea how I can find that out?
But anyway, last night I stumbled across what might be my new favorite band: The Federal Drug Administration. Their songs "Dalek Girlfriend", "Androgynoel" and "Twitter: 24hr Rolling Bull$hit" are LOLtastic. They have a few other good ones too, but those were the best both in terms of melody and humor.
The video for Androgynoel is particularly cute, though if you're not a fan you won't get about 95% of the references. I didn't find any videos for their other songs, though somebody did one for Goth Detectives.
This week is once again going to be crazy busy for me. And it looks like we're going to have another heatwave. :( I don't want the summer to be over, but I can't wait for this summer to be over. Know what I mean?
On Sunday evening I went to dinner with my friend CR and after a few drinks I think we may have had one of those ribald conversation that show up in "overheard in NY." Well, all I can say is, she makes a fine drinking companion. She's a new friend, and I do hope we'll hang out more. When I got home last night I saw the Noel Fielding videos I posted yesterday and between that and our conversation, had a very nice dream. Alcohol does funny, lovely things to my dreams.
But more importantly, yesterday I sat in the doctoral student lounge and got more done in two hours than I have in a month. It felt good. I also went to the library and nearly every book I needed was located at another branch of the school library. So now I have to wait for them to be transferred and go back to campus to pick them up. It's so annoying. I really should just utilize my library privileges at the other Universities where I've taught.
I browsed through the Encyclopedia of Homelessness while in the student lounge and discovered it has no entry specifically on LGBT homelessness. Only the section on youth had, oh, two sentences on it. And those specifically spoke about gay youth (yah, as if all LGBT homeless youth are gay and male and cisgendered, and as if saying 3 - 10% of homeless youth are gay is the end of the story). Talk about minimizing and invisibility. I also found, while running frequencies on my data set, that a full 50% of respondents had an income under $30k for 2007. I find this shocking and dismaying, and a clear sign that I'm going in the right direction with my thinking. I need to find out what were the mean and median incomes in the state of CA for that year. Anybody have an idea how I can find that out?
But anyway, last night I stumbled across what might be my new favorite band: The Federal Drug Administration. Their songs "Dalek Girlfriend", "Androgynoel" and "Twitter: 24hr Rolling Bull$hit" are LOLtastic. They have a few other good ones too, but those were the best both in terms of melody and humor.
The video for Androgynoel is particularly cute, though if you're not a fan you won't get about 95% of the references. I didn't find any videos for their other songs, though somebody did one for Goth Detectives.
This week is once again going to be crazy busy for me. And it looks like we're going to have another heatwave. :( I don't want the summer to be over, but I can't wait for this summer to be over. Know what I mean?
