also due to my extreme dawdling in the morning i didn't catch the bus until 11:25 (class started at 11:07) and apparently my monthly t-pass had expired even though i thought that when i got it the lady said it would automatically renew at the beginning of each month. i believed her so completely that i had actually meant to cancel it for may but forgot. anyway, i only had fifty cents on me so i just stood awkwardly at the front of the bus all the way to harvard square not sure if the bus driver was going to kick me off or not.

i assumed it was my roommate, so i yelled "boo!" really loudly.

but it wasn't my roommate (of course), it was the guy who cleans our kitchen.

bu hao yi si.

i ended up getting thin spaghetti and now i'm pretty sure there is about 0 difference between the two.

less current, still juicy: witches, midwives, and nurses (link from my 9.68 professor)

then i did some preliminary googling and found that someone already did their thesis on the topic:

The Princess and the Platformer: The Evolving Heroine in Nintendo Adventure Games

so maybe i won't do my paper on this topic, but it's an interesting read if you're at all interested in video games/feminism.

no one else was as excited about my absentee ballot as i was, for some reason. i guess growing up with politically active parents just made me kind of love the political process more than i should? meanwhile my peers are like "i don't believe in voting" or "stop taking pictures of your absentee ballot already."

anyway. for dinner today somehow i ended up having a dr. pepper and chocolate tastykake cupcakes. not nutritious but so delicious!

so thank you, kamber, rian, keri, chris, ryan, & jackie. and no thank you to the millions of spam comments those real comments were buried amongst. i really need to find an easy way to allow everyone to comment while keeping out spam. but for now, you shouldn't have to login to comment.

ALSO i earned $30 yesterday for sticking my hand in 3.9 degrees Celsius water for five minutes in the name of research.

this video was posted on feministing and it really made me think. you can say what you want about not having the time to talk to strangers on the street, the interviewer being an attractive woman so straight guys want to talk to her, guys just want to be on teevee, etc. but i think that's beside the point.

especially when after having a conversation with my roommate about how maybe the women just didn't want to be on teevee but secretly had opinions, i realized that SHE refuses to ever discuss her political opinions (even with her friends!).

i've definitely got better at expressing myself as i've grown up, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded to speak up. so that's why i'm posting this. as a reminder to myself and maybe you. fight the patriarchy!

pepperidge farm bagels fortunately do not, but laverdes only had plain and sesame left and i am an everything girl.

and how cliché, but: no one ever comments. :(

i scored a tote bag, a complimentary issue of bitch, and went to three talks over the course of the weekend.

Dying for Your Entertainment: Gender Bias in News Coverage of Britney, Lindsay, Courtney and Owen
Carla DeSantis, Jeannie Smith, Kristin Bredimus, Jennifer Trynin
interesting thing i learned: taking into account the profits of her "packagers" (jive records, etc), the paparazzi, the media, and k-fed, the value of the britney spears economy is $110 million to $120 million annually. (portfolio.com)

Stereotyping and Typecasting in Reality Television
Terra Renton, Andi Zeisler
interesting thing i learned: amongst all the shit out there, there is 'good' reality tv that attempts to make a positive difference. (we watched clips of morgan spurlock's 30 days where he tries to live on minimum wage for a month. hint: it's near impossible)

Cleavage, Cackles and Cookies: Analyzing News Coverage of Hillary Clinton and the 2008 Presidential Election
Allison Stevens, Betsy Reed, Carol Hardy-Fanta, Barbara Lee
interesting thing i learned: because of the sexist double standard facing women candidates for political office, successful women candidates tend to be extremely competent. voters in states with female governors ranked their governors higher on a number of traits (honest and ethical, works well with the legislature, someone you can trust, is genuine, a fighter, tough, & more) than the voters in states with male governors did.

except not so much in boston, where the low is 26 degrees tonight.

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

william carlos williams