Take this love and take it down: Our current obsessions
Obsession 1: Aaron's been practicing his guitar. He really likes Landslide. You should hear our duet. We rock. We rocked out with me on bass, too. Getting our groooooove on.
Obsession 2: We've been reading a lot. Like, that's all we did this weekend. I've read quite a few books lately, including One Perfect Day by Rebecca Meads, The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian, and The Price of Motherhood by Ann Crittenden. I read The Children's Hospital in one weekend - it's 600 pages, and I recommend that you read it all at once. Not that you should read it, though it is pretty good; it's a lot of book that somehow makes more sense if consumed in as few gulps as possible. Aaron felt it dragged, but he read it over a few weeks.
I also ordered five books today off Amazon. Two were for school (!) as I got an email today with my summer reading list for the first day of class. The other three were "fun" books about things I'm interested in. Aaron spent a long time sending me various links to books from university presses. It's a bad habit.
Obsession #3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
I've got a crush on Obama. I've been singing it for days. It's so catchy. People seem to think it's raunchy and sex-filled and denigrating to his campaign. I think it's hilarious and apparently, some people haven't ever seen a music video. And, they don't know a great parody when they see it. I live for parody!
Obsession #4: Blogs about law and feminism. We both hate Ann Althouse. I love reading the brouhaha about autoadmit.com (see here, here, and here). Basically, this law school admission discussion board (which Aaron read occasionally as he applied) is home to nasty, nasty people who discuss various matters in racist, sexist, and disgusting fashion. Normally, this is all fine and good -I believe people should be able to have a forum to talk about whatever they want. That line gets crossed when individual women get harrassed and threatened by name, have their pictures posted against their will, and the owners of the board refuse to shut down the threads. See their legal complaint here (I'll admit, it reads a little awkwardly - but the whole thing makes me. so. mad.) We've talked about this ad nauseum.
Like: feministing (feminist); lawsandletters (woman law student); Feminist Law Profs (just what it sounds like)
Obsession #5: lolcats. Enough said.
Obsession #6: Loratadine. Linn County is the grass seed capital of the world. My eyes itch just thinking about it. Aaron sneezed about 100 times today. It sucks.
Obsession #7: The weather. We want it to get hot. Or, we want to go some place where we can do this:
Obsession 2: We've been reading a lot. Like, that's all we did this weekend. I've read quite a few books lately, including One Perfect Day by Rebecca Meads, The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian, and The Price of Motherhood by Ann Crittenden. I read The Children's Hospital in one weekend - it's 600 pages, and I recommend that you read it all at once. Not that you should read it, though it is pretty good; it's a lot of book that somehow makes more sense if consumed in as few gulps as possible. Aaron felt it dragged, but he read it over a few weeks.
I also ordered five books today off Amazon. Two were for school (!) as I got an email today with my summer reading list for the first day of class. The other three were "fun" books about things I'm interested in. Aaron spent a long time sending me various links to books from university presses. It's a bad habit.
Obsession #3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
I've got a crush on Obama. I've been singing it for days. It's so catchy. People seem to think it's raunchy and sex-filled and denigrating to his campaign. I think it's hilarious and apparently, some people haven't ever seen a music video. And, they don't know a great parody when they see it. I live for parody!
Obsession #4: Blogs about law and feminism. We both hate Ann Althouse. I love reading the brouhaha about autoadmit.com (see here, here, and here). Basically, this law school admission discussion board (which Aaron read occasionally as he applied) is home to nasty, nasty people who discuss various matters in racist, sexist, and disgusting fashion. Normally, this is all fine and good -I believe people should be able to have a forum to talk about whatever they want. That line gets crossed when individual women get harrassed and threatened by name, have their pictures posted against their will, and the owners of the board refuse to shut down the threads. See their legal complaint here (I'll admit, it reads a little awkwardly - but the whole thing makes me. so. mad.) We've talked about this ad nauseum.
Like: feministing (feminist); lawsandletters (woman law student); Feminist Law Profs (just what it sounds like)
Obsession #5: lolcats. Enough said.
Obsession #6: Loratadine. Linn County is the grass seed capital of the world. My eyes itch just thinking about it. Aaron sneezed about 100 times today. It sucks.
Obsession #7: The weather. We want it to get hot. Or, we want to go some place where we can do this:
posted by Allison at 10:09 PM
2 Comments:
I hope that video doesn't ruin Obama's political cred--Maureen Dowd wrote about it this weekend.
P.S. now I'm totally freaked out. I haven't received any emails about summer reading!
It's plenty hot here. Occasionally unbearably so. Today was the first cool day I've had here in quite a while.
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