May 08 2013
Tomorrow, I begin the journey of Comps. There are 4 questions, over 4 days, and I have 4 hours to answer each of them. It’s sort of the marathon of test-taking. Last week I turned in a 7000 word historical research paper about the rural purge. Maybe I’ll adapt that into some sort of much …
Apr 10 2013
I was on this panel at SkepTech! You can read my prepared thoughts here. Notes: -I improperly conflated psuedonymity with anonymity in the last third of the talk. Those are different things. I think pseudonymity (like Gravatar, Disqus, etc. offer) is one of the nice middle ground ways we can keep an eye on commenters …
Mar 12 2013
Yesterday Andy pointed out that a list of non-going-to-therapy resources would be useful. Insurance, time, frustration with therapeutic experiences, inability to tell parents, etc, can make seeing a therapist either impossible or unappealing. Here’s a (totally incomplete) list. Please please please add other suggestions in the comments! I’ll keep updating. Relevant disclaimer: I’m not a …
Feb 06 2013
Libby Anne and Dan Fincke have been running a project called Forward Thinking. Prompts are proposed, and bloggers can respond. Every two weeks a roundup of links is published. The most recent topic is what we should be telling teenagers about sex. Being as I was a teenager a very short six months ago, I …
Dec 03 2012
I’m sorry to be doing this over the phone, your father has forbidden me from seeing you in person. I’m sorry, he just cannot support your lifestyle anymore, he will not be speaking to you again, he asked me to tell you. That was my stepmother, the day after Thanksgiving, the day after she discovered …
Nov 17 2012
We give so little weight to our thoughts. You can push them away and mold them and let them be and more than anything else, just not think about it. This is a sharing story. It’s personal. It’s descriptive. This is your trigger warning. I’ll let you in on a secret. I won’t ever reread my …
Nov 14 2012
I wrote this silly, sappy thing. Care. Care hugely and deeply and largely and until it hurts. Care until you talk and research and rant. Write pages of blog posts and 140 characters of dissent. Protest and change things, because when you care enough, why the hell wouldn’t you want to change things? The world …
Nov 05 2012
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (`the exact shape doesn’t matter,’ it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no `One, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it …
Nov 05 2012
I work in social media and so, perhaps unsurprisingly, I follow my Klout score (and other people’s Klout’s scores) with more attention than strictly necessary. Let’s blame my love of numbers. With my busy-ness in grad school my number has dropped from a high of 74 to my current score of 69. In any event, …
Oct 31 2012
A few days back, I cheerfully pointed out via a comment that when you say things like this: I handle controversy really well; I do not break down in tears, jump to unreasonable conclusions about my safety, or have mental breakdowns. …in the greater context of an article about how, in essence, those who can’t …
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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