Yesterday, I had to give a presentation that’s a minor milestone in my doctoral program – all the fourth years have to present at a colloquium for the rest of the department. I had kind o
I discovered Netflix about a year ago and have since begun actually watching TV shows that didn’t require someone else sitting me down and showing them to me. Accordingly, my list of minor pet pee
I was recently having a conversation with a friend about first impressions/near first impressions, and it was amusing to pick apart some of what those had been drawn from. It reminded me a lot (part
When I was a kid, I always kind of rolled my eyes at the inevitable class essays about who my role model and/or personal hero was – mostly because for whatever reason, my teachers always seemed to w
Last week, there was a Slutwalk in the city where I leave. It was the first one I was able to attend, and came in a week marked by various protests and public manifestations here in Brazil, which made