December 2007
Which is the Best Geek To Date? →
It’s audience participation time! Received an interesting piece of reader mail yesterday: Dear Lena, Nerds come in many [mental] types. I for example am an engineer, my friend a music [composition] nerd and many more computer scientists. I would like to know if you would share your opinions on a possible breakdown of experience you have had with men of different mental strengths in a general...
Dec 31st
“The odd thing about this form of communication is that you’re more likely...”
– Kathleen Kelly (played by Meg Ryan) in “You’ve Got Mail”
Dec 30th
Going to Vegas with the high school friends this weekend for the New Year’s holiday. One of them is meeting an Internet pal for the first time since they started talking a year and a half ago.
Dec 30th
“Yes, I think, any minute now … the insight will come. Clarity. The truth...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel in “Prozac Nation”
Dec 30th
Eureka!
I know what I’m going to use my Tumblr for. This is going to be a writing journal. I’m posting highs/lows from daily life, quotes from books that influence me, etc. It’ll help me finish the sample chapters for this goddamn memoir.
Dec 30th
Quotables: Fountain of Knowledge = Fountain of... →
An amusing conversation with one of my fave ‘07ers. Happy birthday MSM! Me: “He’s 27.” Rody: “Okay, that’s old.” Me: “But he’s a student! That’s like …” Rody: “Perpetual youth? Kind of.” Me: “The academic version of age-defying moisturizer.”
Dec 30th
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
– Confucius
Dec 29th
Where It Stood, Where It Stands →
First off, check out this Sex and the Ivy-related point and counterpoint on Gadfly, a blog written by “a bunch of people who went to Harvard and now have many opinions.” Full disclosure: I am acquainted with both writers and the author of the defense is my very tall and Canadian hubby on Facebook, though I assure you there was no prodding on my part. Second, I’m too busy with papers and writing...
Dec 29th
Tumblin'
Or at least adding content via my Sex and the Ivy feed. Let’s see if I like this baby enough to post original shit.
Dec 29th