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 …
Tag Archive: dc
Aug 30 2012
Dragon*Con! Friend me on the App!
I am packing for Dragon*Con as we speak and trying to finish (read: create) my speech for Saturday morning (10 AM, come see me). Of course, I am up against the parade, so I might be speaking to an empty room. Regardless, I have the D*C app and if you do too, we should be …
Sep 03 2011
Going Back to School & Dragon*Con: I’m Speaking Monday at 1PM
And you can watch! Here. I’ve had a craaaaazy couple of weeks here. The bizarre tale. I’ve been thinking about going back to school for a while – I browsed through different PhDs online for film or creative writing and I looked at law school, but the first two seemed impractical and as I didn’t …
May 26 2011
Secular Coalition for America Summit: Day 1
What a crazy weekend that was. So crazy that I’m writing about it what, on Thursday? Yeah, I was tweeting, hello, busy! In fact, nothing I’m going to say here wasn’t said with worse grammar and lack of access to spell check earlier. I landed at Ronald Reagan airport (DCA) and took a cab to …
Mar 25 2011
My Con Schedule 2011
I'm going to have a busy summer! Secular Coalition for America's Summit in Washington DC from May 19-21. I haven't been to DC since I was 13, so this is exciting, and I've been invited as Future Leader and will get to talk strategy, which is also cool. Still need to figure out travel plans, …


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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