Still sick, but feeling loved
Urgh, in between attempting to read cultural theory (which makes me alternately thinky and annoyed!), passing out (a lot of that), and watching Quality Television such as Flight of the Conchords, Mad Men and that show where David Duchovny is really pervy, I um...blow my nose and drink tea?

So yes, feeling antisocial but okay. (I just wish that this show I really, really, really want to go to and already have tickets for wasn't tomorrow.) However! I think you all should know that kittyzams decided that I need an INTERVENTION from the non-stop Rupert perving cheering up and she made a [Jared Padalecki Picspam] for me. My fave parts are the dorky ones and the "O face" ones.

Also, I think I might be quitting smoking (again). And I keep having thoughts about Things, like this book that I'm reading, and who I think I'm going to vote for in the presidential election, and queer theory and why I don't condemn bandom despite being disinterested in it. But I don't feel like posting about them. And that it has to be okay for me, internet addict as I can be, to sometimes have opinions and not necessarily tell the Internet about them in detail - to take a step back. Because I need to get healthy right now, and engage with my real life - even if that just means reading books and watching TV and going to the gym and making food/going out/talking with my friends.

Two other random things: I looked at a bunch of cat macros the other day and most of the time I just ended up thinking, "Man! These cats are so fugly compared to *MY* cat." Haha. I'm vain on his behalf.

I had a dream last night that included many wacky things...such as me desperately editing my dissertation in a stairwell. When I woke up, I was all, "Shit. I wish I remembered what it was about." Oh well!

ETA: a) I think that as a rule I dislike environments in which it is not okay to ask what a word means. Or to say, "I don't know what we're talking about!" I do this in class from time to time and then people tell me that I'm brave.
b) Thank god for Online Dictionaries - I just learned that "sartorial" means: Of or relating to a tailor, tailoring, or tailored clothing. I did not know that!
c) I don't think C will mind if I inform you all that she somehow managed to make it to graduate school without knowing what the word "scatological" means (of or pertaining to poop) and once corrected in a social situation, she face-palmed because she'd totally used it in seminar before. Hee!