Just realized there are all of these typos in the post below. Oh well. I am leaving them there for posterity. Or until the Internet collapses!

all the changed lately.

Last week consisted of A LOT:

- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was TA training (a bit repetitive and obvious from time to time)
- Thursday I had two doctor’s appointments.
- Friday I met with the professor I am TA’ing for
- Saturday I had my department orientation

Today, I slept in and took a nap.  Yep. That’s about it.

My first class is at 4 tomorrow. Here we go!

Win a threesome with Scarlett Johansson?

Seems kinda wrong if it is true! But I doubt it is.

I recently read First Grade to Final Day: A Graduate Student’s Guide to Teaching. I bought it on amazon.com via a third party seller. When I was finishing it up, I found a receipt from Ohio State University Bookstore in it from June 2007.

I started to think about the life of a book, how it floats from one owner to the next, another reader to take it on.

I wonder who the person is who read it last, a brand new teaching assistant like me? Someone reading up on teaching technique?

So I finally have my own office, a room of one’s own ala Virgina Woolf

Here she is…

Oh yeah my room is a mess…:)

One of the writers of The Rules got married…

The groom Lance Houpt on one of his first dates with Ellen Fein:

He added: “When you go to these singles weekends, some people are a little too intense, a little too desperate. Ellen was light and breezy.” (She was following one of her books’ directives that women should emulate a summer breeze, not a tornado, when they are around men they like.)

Sounds positively dreamy.

On their engagement:

“By the time we got engaged, we’d been together three years,” she said. “He did take me to a restaurant and get down on one knee. I was really embarrassed. We’re really old.”

I thought the point was to have the whole huge proposal and wedding. I’m so confused.

All snippets via the NYTimes.

Whenever I go to the movies lately, I have to sit through this trailer. This movie looks horrible not only due to lack of plot but the sexism that abounds. It looks like a VERY watered down Legally Blonde. So basically Playboy Bunny gets fired because she’s too old (ageist.) She turns to working in a sorority of “lame” girls who are convinced they need an ex playboy bunny to learn how to be cool. This is what I’m learning from this movie: it’s cool to look like a slut and not like a smart nerd. Except Playboy Bunny learns its sometimes OK to look smart because some guys in college like smart girls.

What was Anna Faris thinking? She isn’t do anyone any favors by starring in this film. According to the wikipedia page, Faris even shopped the film around and produced it.  Wasn’t that her parading around on Entourage last summer saying she wanted to be taken seriously? I know that’s a parody but c’mon.

This movie LOOKS LAME!

I haven’t been posting because I’m in denial about being on vacation. See I think I am on “vacation” even though I finishing up an essay that is due in five days. Yep, five days!

Reasons I think I’m on vacation:

- house is kinda together
- I am so lazy!
- I actually watched tv last night

Also, I am realizing how quickly my life will change in less than three weeks.  Why should I rush into organizing my files when I know I will have no free time until December. I might as well soak up the free time now because who knows when I’ll ever have it again!

There has been some progress made!

Lists behold:

• Registered to vote
• Got a MI license (waiting for the real ones to arrive in the mail)
• Got a desk with drawers (this is HUGE!)
• Had my student ID picture taken
• Got my student mailbox key

And there is still a ton more to do…

Including:

• getting pictures developed
• finding a bank to deposit checks
• more donations to Goodwill!

And there is more I am sure!

Yesterday when I was driving home from visiting my mom, I was listening to an intriguing and disturbing story on NPR.

It turns out that Native American women who are rape victims on reservations cannot press charges against their attacker if the attacker is a visitor to the reservation.* This was shocking to me.  The piece was actually a follow up on a story they did  a year ago.

Disturbing information from the article:

• One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime.
• A 2004 study conducted by the department found that the number of suspects investigated by U.S. attorneys for crimes on Indian land declined 21 percent from 1997 to 2000.
• There aren’t enough police to investigate sexual assaults, and few of the cases are prosecuted.

My first thought is disgust for these women and my second thought is what can I do to raise awareness over the perpetual invisibleness of these crimes…

* I haven’t found this written anywhere but heard it on the radio show.