January 2011
9 posts
on trying to convince paul to read a romance novel
paul: i should just mail back my college degree right now.
me: i'm reading a romance novel and a book about Paul and Julia Child's time in the OSS. if there is room in the world for foie gras and potato chips, there is room in the world for romance and political history.
ali: that needs to be our new apartment motto.
paul: make sure you say pringles, it works better than potato chips.
Love & Science: A Brief Debate
Me: What's work? It's LOVE, ben. We biologists do it all the time.
Ben: If there's force over distance... it's work. :-p Physicists do it better.
Me: I hate you so much right now.
Ben: HAHAHA. Wooooo. Bestest pun ever.
“What was the first that that culture told her about being a girl? Not that she...”
– Peggy Orenstein on the Disney Princess phenomenon, Cinderella Ate My Daughter (HarperCollins, January 25, 2011)
“It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me
And...”
– “Feeling Good “written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse