pulling the first real all-nighter in a very long time…have done quite a few two and three hour sleepers in the last year, but tonight i do not have time for that…just blogging to stay awake during my 5 minute brain brake :-) (hmmm, maybe i should add a category ‘meaningless’ for posts like this…but [...]

this is the first semester of my doctorate, and i have done a lot! but there is also a lot that i needed to do that i did not get done. i am beginning to realize that the first year is very much a year of exploration. a year to learn how to hunt and [...]

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* An estimated 11% of all females, or approximately 535,000 women, living in Rwanda at the time of the genocide were victims of a concerted rape campaign.
* During the course of the rape campaign, an average of 4 women were violently sexually assaulted, most of them by HIV+ men, every [...]

the blob

Originally uploaded by Fairyring.

i am trying out a tool called the blob, which is the same tool that we used on the jokkmokk blog. i like that you can move around the page without it following you (new version), but i also like [...]

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tonight three boys came to my door because they thought i lost my dog. nope. he is here. and now there are two. anyone lost a dog? (attempting to find the owner. i would like another dog, but really want one of [...]

i decided to change cell phones a few months back, so i placed an ad on one of these sites to sell things. i got a response, trusted that the money was sent (like he said it was) and sent the phone. long story short, after a lot of emailing, he stole my phone. i [...]