Don't mix work and pleather

You know, it's a shame De Sade didn't work out on me - most of theory class today revolved around leather-wearing gay bikers and butch bull-dykes, so it would have really been appropriate to wear, even though I'm like the farthest thing from butch EVAR.

I actually do enjoy gender studies - it and feminism are the two theories so far that don't make me want to cut myself. However, it totally makes me want to analyze the crossdressing and gender play in shoujo manga on an academic level, which would be cool but AUGH SOME THINGS I DON'T WANNA ANALYZE.

...and okay, why in the hell did I decide to write my NaNo novel about seventh-graders? I mean, sure, I was a seventh-grader once myself, but that was a considerable while ago, and I don't know the first thing about how seventh-graders talk now. So writing them to sound convincing is kinda making me want to tear my hair out. Maybe I should move them up to high school early. >_<

And finally, a meme from surlykitty:

The BBC asked people to vote for the top 50 things everyone should try a bite of in their lifetime. Bold the ones you've tried.

( Actually, given how picky I am I've tried a lot of these )

Heard on the radio this afternoon...

[Poll #603118]

..."M" being short for "morons," obviously. I don't know about anyone else, but "lovely lady lumps" makes me think less "OMG SEXAY" and more "wow, you should probably get that looked at by a doctor, it could be malignant." And the milk in the Cocoa Puffs bit made me want to cry. AUGH THANK YOU VERY MUCH BREAKFAST CEREAL HAS BEEN RUINED FOR ME FOREVAR

Edit: Errr, I should have specified this in the poll, but apply to you is what I meant. XD

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Edit: Just read the following quote by Charlotte Bronte:

And what did I find [in Pride and Prejudice]? An accurate daguerrotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden.

Is it wrong that I totally want a time machine now just so that I could go back in time and confront her over her (clearly wrongheaded) contempt? ("Bitch, I KNOW you did not just diss Jane Austen.") But really, it seems kinda disrespectful given that the reason Charlotte was writing was because of earlier women writers like Jane Austen and Ann Radcliffe who she seems to think are beneath her.