So yesterday I had an English class where we discussed the book Junglee Girl by Ginu Kamani. Now, this book is creepy. In fact, it’s one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read. Ever. Unfortunately I was unaware of the creepiness factor when I decided to take a 30 minute lunch [...]
Archive for March, 2009
The Benefits Of “Women Only”
Posted in Bates Opportunities, tagged Bates College, English class, Junglee Girl, New Commons, slimy, the fireplace lounge, the ronj, thesis, women only on March 17, 2009 | Comments Off
Religion Classes are Incredibly Wuwu
Posted in Bates Opportunities, tagged Bates College, religion classes, thesis, wuwu on March 13, 2009 | Comments Off
To begin this post let me specify what I mean when I say “wuwu.” Wuwu is a term that has many spellings and many different definitions. I have claimed this one for myself. Wuwu basically means something that’s super sappy, new-agey, optimistic, “spiritual” and bourgeois. I’d say it’s bougie precisely because it is super sappy, [...]
A New Website For Bates!
Posted in Bates Opportunities, tagged Bates College, Bates college experience, Bates Opportunities, community, first years, web design on March 12, 2009 | Comments Off
A few days ago I participated in a meeting about redesigning the Bates website. This feat is part of a larger initiative to update Bates electronically as a whole and the more I think about it, the more I see this enterprise worthwhile. The primary question was how Bates could do a better job presenting [...]
PostSecret and Questions of Censorship
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Art, Bates College, Bates Office of the Multifaith Chaplaincy, censorship, fireplace lounge, New Commons, PostSecret on March 10, 2009 | Comments Off
The Bates Office of the Multifaith Chaplaincy has been working for months on bringing the founder of PostSecret (a website that posts postcards that people send on which they write secrets) Frank Wright to Bates College as the annual Andrew’s Lecturer. In preparation for the lecture, to advertise and get the word out as well [...]
Confessions of a Sick Girl
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alcestis, Bates Admissions, Bates College, friends, fruit, haircut, Shaws, sickness, Skype, sore throat, theater, thesis, Willy Bean's Coffee on March 10, 2009 | Comments Off
So for the past week or so I have been sick. Really, really sick. It began with the sore throat, then merged into the killer sore throat, stuffy face, rattling lungs combo and now has progressed on to the stuffy face, rattling lungs. At least I can swallow. However, I have been blowing my [...]
While people are getting fired, I need to get hired.
Posted in Bates Opportunities, Random Thoughts, tagged Bates College, chocolate, coughing, health care, moulin rouge, office of career services, sickness, the mummy, tonsillitis on March 5, 2009 | Comments Off
So the year is quickly coming to a close and nothing feels like it’s remotely close to ending except my student health care benefits. I’ve been thinking about health care a lot lately for when I get stressed and feel a little unstable I fall into “Steph hypochondriac mode.” I first experienced this mode when [...]
