I just don’t understand how some artists get recording contracts. After dinner tonight, as we all sat around sipping our coffee, we began talking about gendered labels and how we each felt about specific terms like “lady” “guys” “girls” etc. The term “biddy” was mentioned and then the term “broad”. One of us questioned whether [...]
Archive for October, 2008
At the risk of sounding like Tipper Gore…
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Bates College, Coldplay, friends, grinding, music, Tipper Gore, Women and Gender Studies on October 29, 2008 | Comments Off
College Has Made Me Go Blind
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Bates College, blindness, reading glasses, work on October 8, 2008 | Comments Off
College has made me go blind. For the beginning weeks of school I found myself straining my neck when reading or when at the computer. I recognized intense worry lines on my forehead. I also would frequently feel like my eyeballs were going to fall out of my head.
Not wanting my eyeballs to fall out [...]
Parent’s Weekend
Posted in Bates Opportunities, Random Thoughts, tagged apples, Bates College, Freeport, October, Parent's Weekend, parents, Portland on October 8, 2008 | Comments Off
So this past weekend was parent’s weekend here at Bates. Parent’s weekend always occurs in the first week of October and is a time where parents can come up and see what their child’s life is like at Bates. There is a fancy registration with apple cider and coffee and muffins and amazing apples in [...]
