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[theinevitable]

yes, that is another thing that is going on.

The thing that is weirdest to me is how, um, simplistic that particular feminine ideal is. Like, "busty and not fat = hot, blonde = extra hot, all else = boring/not hot." Where my criteria is mostly face-based. And how cute I think the face is increases a lot based on being nice and smart and talking to me. I got in a FIGHT with my roommate about how he thought the waitress at the restaurant (WHO WAS 20 AND HAD BRACES AND A CREEPY FAKE CUSTOMER SERVICE SMILE) was super hot because she was busty/fit/tall, and I liked the girl with curly hair in the corner who was playing board games. This type of guy gets MAD when you do not agree about who is ugly. What is wrong with people. Yes, we both have stupid involuntary preferences, they do not have to be the same ones.

I am doing an ongoing tinder experiment. This experiment is that I say "yes" to every single woman. Interesting results.

[jaydub]

This experiment is that I say "yes" to every single woman. Interesting results.

You mean you've ever said, no?

[wombat]

I've been in Japan. Did I miss anything?

[jaydub]

I lost a fight with the back of a Prius.

[wombat]

Eeek! Are you OK?

[theinevitable]

I originally read that as "lost a fight IN the back of a prius" and was a lot less concerned. This version sounds less fun.

Wombat, how was your trip? When you were gone everyone stopped posting.

My new thing is that instead of watching TV shows in between homework, I am trying to keep up with Duolingo a lot more. My new thing is Dutch. It is a cool language, mostly like an easier (and less useful) German. It is a lot more fun to start a new language than it is to keep grinding away at Spanish.

I think a lot about the weird availability of regionally specific knowledge in the internet age. Thanks to Duolingo there are random people in the US learning Dutch and Hungarian and Romanian, and thanks to sites like Forvo I can hear a native speaker pronounce practically any word. Whenever I read about old polymath types who could "speak 7 languages" I wonder how many of them would have actually been intelligible. Lately when I reflect on those claims what comes to mind is 14 year old Inev claiming he was learning Quenya, the elven language from Lord of the Rings. But this aspect of the internet is my blessing as a person who wants to read 10 articles of instructions before he tries anything. Although maybe this is only reinforcing bad habits.

Midterms this week and I need to start research for final papers, so the language learning is going to fall by the wayside. Also about to register for classes next semester, and it looks like it might be a tough one. Methods II (demographics and computer modeling), GIS (mapping), Historic Preservation Methods, and maybe a zoning law class. Reports indicate the first two are going to mean lots of long nights in the lab compiling census data.

[wombat]

Wombat, how was your trip? When you were gone everyone stopped posting.

Trip was too jam-packed for me to keep my figments active, apparently.

[Carlos del Vaca]

My new thing is that instead of watching TV shows in between homework, I am trying to keep up with Duolingo a lot more. My new thing is Dutch. It is a cool language, mostly like an easier (and less useful) German. It is a lot more fun to start a new language than it is to keep grinding away at Spanish.

I was doing really well at Duolingo Spanish for a while there, but then got out of the habit. I need to get back on that particular hoss (caballo).

[theinevitable]

I crossed some sort of mental threshold and am going completely stir-crazy all at once. Too much TV and schoolwork and duolingo, not enough talking to people I care about and seeing things in the world. Went on a pretty good date today, though, that was nice. And I think I aced my finance midterm, I was the second person done. Or else I missed a page somewhere...

[jaydub]

Eeek! Are you OK?

Mostly


Broken hand, lacerated elbow and big toe.

[jaydub]

...,
GIS (mapping),

You just uttered the Summon Somebody nice spell

[pmcd9]

Mostly


Broken hand, lacerated elbow and big toe.

Dang, dude!

[AugustWest]

Mostly


Broken hand, lacerated elbow and big toe.

Hey, don't do that anymore.

[pmcd9]

If there's one thing I know, kids love to high 5.

[wombat]

So fuckin' A people, be cool to each other if you can. Your little thing might be someone else's big thing.

So true.