practical cat

I did microbrewery research on many of my school's states. I would not hate getting used to Wisconsin beer.

Yeah, official email but seemed pretty standard. Wait list, impressed with application, should know by April 15 but hopefully sooner, let them know about my interest and if that changes. Nothing about ranking or probability (I so want one that comes at me with a bunch of numbers). I'm going to respond tomorrow when my head is less blah and I will share if any news surfaces with that.

Yeah, I definitely read the post very similarly (and I agreed with nearly everything they said!) Hence my confusion over the vitriol. :-( Thanks.

I didn't report it but their comments triggered me. I am very comfortable with other people issuing the reports and even grateful to them for that. Reporting rape jokes is not censoring either. That was hateful.

Also, sorry for being so touchy tonight -- I admit I have been, especially to dazed -- but I am pretty sensitive to even the possibility of further bullying happening here. It's been rough, guys. Let's all be nice from now on?

I would be also interested in hearing how I took it in the wrong spirit. I wanted to clarify why one might apply to ten programs especially as pomo's original post was pretty hostile toward both my feelings about Brandeis AND this hypothetical person who applies to that many programs. If I misread their intent, I do apologize for assuming anything other than good intentions but I still see the value in clarifying language. I think, too, that a polite post back actually clarifying intent would've sufficed. I am now only MORE convinced of the deliberate rudeness of the first post.

I'm sorry, dazedandbemused, but the above comment is not a clarification of an opinion. It is blatant and unprovoked nastiness directed at me. Surely some of what donthate threw at me was worse (including actual hate speech and threats both on the boards and over pm -- they made my internet life a hell for months -- and that is why I reported them) but I am, frankly, very tired of being the target of countless personal attacks here. Pomo never said anything helpful or new and laced it with gross generalizations that I was attempting to straighten out. Honestly, I would think we should all be able to handle some equivocation over language. It is what we hope to spend the rest of our lives dealing in. And, again, their post in response to me was incredibly rude and I do believe I should be able to down vote that with a clear conscious. You're being incredibly careless with the word "censoring" especially when you clearly don't know what has been going on with donthate. A down vote is not censorship, it is expressing disagreement. Reporting someone for spewing hate is not censorship either.

I know this. Like I said, I am bracing myself because I don't want to be let down on this one again. And I applied to 10 places, all very good fits, all very desirable programs, all very big gambles (each receiving multiple hundreds of apps, that is) and spent less than $800 on applications. Sure, I want something to "stick" but I was at no point being careless and this was given a great deal of thought. I take issue at some of the implications of your post.

I firmly believe that places with frequent dreary/cold weather make the best beer. We're not growing grapes so we need to ferment something else.

Michigan. Where we have nothing better to do than perfect our brewing.

Man, genuinely surprised about both of you! I hope your UNC wait list goes the way of (Not)'s soon.

Seriously awesome, congratulations!!!

I'm really, truly trying not to think that because if I think that and it's wrong I will have my heart broken all over again by Brandeis. Thank you though. In other news, looks like Rutgers isn't breaking any hearts or making any days tonight! (Anyone else reliably spell "Rutgers" as "Rugrats" the first time?)

Can we make this real? That sounds delicious.

This is true but not exactly what I want to be true? Not that I'm rooting against people just that I want to be put out of my Brandeis misery sooner rather than later.

I love that you have turned down FOUR programs ALREADY. I'm assuming you're still waiting on some even?

My biggest regret in undergrad(/maybe life?) is that I never took that class.

I take issue.

Please tell me the latest Brandeis post is either: A. A cruel joke or B. A post where someone forgot to change the date and they were really accepted last Friday. I can't take the hope. I really can't, love them too much.

Wow. They must've really been wrestling with who would make the wait list. I bet you were incredibly close. Sorry to have just been assuming that everyone who hadn't heard was wait listed. (Where you at, two espressos?) I got the email at exactly 5pm EST. (And added mine to the results right after posting here.)

Thank God Wisconsin is finally notifying about wait list decisions. It's just good to be able to update my signature, you know? Also, get it, StephanieD. Congratulations and good luck!!!

I also wanted to tell you that your interests make my heart sing. I am going to want to read your dissertation.

I think I have only heard it from older members of the queer community and exclusively to refer to people who identify as trans (who don't always necessarily take up those pronouns themselves and blah blah blah I have always felt like they were kind of a way of buying into the idea that we need to be able to name someone else's gender but that's just been my experience with the words). I agree that the ideal is that it disrupt the he/she binary but I think it has much less real traction than "they." (Both because we already use "they" fairly regularly in everyday speech so it's not a difficult transition but also because I think its linguistic sneakiness can be more productive than something more didactic. It is entirely sidestepping and disrespecting the need to name/know gender because it assumes that to be a total non-issue.) I find introducing the idea of ze/hir helpful in kind of a queer theory 101 sort of way because it's built on something familiar and thereby accessible way to introduce other ideas but I'm never going to militantly use them in academic writing the way I do with "they." Anyway, YES these ideas are so much fun to talk about even/especially as it's kind of difficult/messy given the wildly differing opinions of those who are on exactly the same page.

She's got about 12 other videos and they're ALL amazing. Highly recommended. Big Anne Curzan fan. I think Rutgers' visit weekend is only a couple days after Michigan's so they have got to get the acceptances out there and soon. So nervous. They're my favorite and my last. High stakes.

I just don't think they'll ever be sufficiently normalized to actually serve their purpose. I also don't think the underlying assumption that we need a third choice (instead of doing away with the binary altogether) is especially productive. I certainly respect anyone who wants to use them for themselves but I'm not going to be active about it the way I am with the singular "they."