Paid to read books

"I get paid to read books!" This sentence - always with the exclamation mark - is the easiest way to identify a new humanities gra...

Emerged adulthood

Lena Dunham's New Yorker essay about how puppies are nice was what finally permitted me to articulate what it is about Dunham's per...

14, 29

Tonight, Rufus Wainwright himself graced us, the rural 'burbs next to the famous university, with his presence. There was a very elderly...

Adulthood Studies: how do you buy pants?

I've decided I don't have a problem with leggings , or even leggings-as-pants (despite having once received 15 minutes of fame for ...

Anachronistic fashion-victimhood

Are you a woman (or a man)? Do you wear your hair somewhere between your chin and shoulders? With bangs? You   are, without knowing it, imit...

Cultural references for the new adult driver

Here's what I've come up with, off the top of my head. Please add more in the comments! -"Clueless." The ultimate driving-...

WWPD Guides: OMG DRIVERS LICENSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! edition

Prepare yourselves, WWPD readers, for what shall be the most momentous announcement of WWPD history: On this very day, I went and got a driv...

I am not 16

"I tried to dance Britney Spears./ I guess I'm getting on in years." - Rufus Wainwright. So I'm officially too old for Fac...

WWPD, language police

-Yes, yes, the First Amendment, but whevs. I'm going to hereby advocate for a ban on the use of the word "fresh" to describe h...

Old age is...

...when you go to the student health center for your annual "well woman" checkup, and they don't ask you about your lifestyle....

Premature aging UPDATED

Elizabeth Nolan Brown has an interesting new blog called " This Is 30 ," which thus far consists of celebrity photos of what 30-ye...

Guilty as (over-)charged

Long, long ago, when I was a young'un, a recent college grad and newish grad student filled with energy and dreams, I wrote somewhat di...

On having lost the capacity for embarrassment

Today, I insisted that I could totally feed and walk Bisou before leaving in the middle of the night (or so it feels like) to go on the bike...

Reports from the longest day ever

-Class itself: fun. Sorting out the mystery that is online homework: less so. A work in progress, but to be resolved, I estimate, in the nex...

Quote of the day

"She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger." - Margalit Fox on the late Helen Gurley Brown.

The evolution of prep

-Last night I went with a group of mathematicians, physicists, etc. to a karaoke night at the bar in town. If grad students have a reputatio...

Ma'am demystified

Google thinks I'm a woman (check!) over 65, and living in the Pacific Northwest, a place about which I've heard good things, but I...

Some ID

This was, all told, a crummy day in non-tragic but still-frustrating respects. But one particular highlight was that at Wegman's - remem...

Reunification

My ten-year high school reunion is coming up, and my apathy towards this means that if I were to opt in, I'd now have to pay the non-ear...