Dunno, I kind of admire someone who is like, “hey, I’d like to masturbate, but first I have to spend literal hours making art to do it to.” Dedication, or whatever.

I immediately imagined a careworn, adjunct professor of New Media at a state college joyously sitting down to write a new case study.

A couple months ago, I was harshly told by a group of self-described geeks that my Aristotle reference made me a hippie. It was weird and I still don’t know how to feel about it.

In college, my friend and I went to watch county court for fun on a regular basis. We got to know the security guards and had favorite judges and everything.
There was not a lot to do in Annapolis.

Today was okay! I got to use my brain a little bit and it seemed to work out even though I only slept for two hours (replacing sleep with Harry Potter kindlebooks = 100% okay!) My only new year’s resolution was to act less weird and creepy around my classmates and I totally/mostly succeeded. People tried to hug me and stuff. Human!

I am very into exclamation marks, I guess is what happened today.

My first reaction: Is the obi also bulletproof? Do they coordinate?

Would also accept: glitter, oil, jell-o.

I prefer to think he’s just wearing a sexy lady’s fur-trimmed Christmas bikini and decided, for modesty, to cover up with a t-shirt.

It’s important to know when to give up in life.

Not to deny that we for sure live in A Man’s World, but something creeps me out about presenting her as an innocent maiden being exploited. She had her own power (as an internationally famous person) and chose him, too. I get that there’s often a power differential in age, but it seems weird to assume that she didn’t have agency in their getting together?

- He wrote some genuinely beautiful books. Like, more than one Very Important, Very Good book. One of the beautiful books caused him to go into hiding after death threats/fatwas were thrown his way from all over the Muslim world. (Please note that he has also written some Very Blaaaaaah, This is Awful books. Especially recently.)
- He is not very pretty to look at, but the very pretty lady above was married to him for a while.

They *did* make a Final Fantasy movie

Huzzah! I was a case manager in an HIV clinic last year and basically spent every day freaking out over other people’s CD4 counts, so I am excited for you. I’m sorry you’re sick and that this birthday was crap and that life is disappointing so much of the time, but it’s great that your immune system is doing its thing these days and you can take fewer stupid pills. I hope you have some fun post-birthday celebrationy things coming your way.