Blogcoven

I showed up at my local polling place at 7:00 am yesterday morning. I voted, got my free cup of coffee from Starbucks, did a few hours of work, then proceeded to bite my fingernails as I watched election results come in. Happily, the national election was decided quickly; as I’d guessed, the local measures [...]

Actual text of an e-mail I received, minus incriminating details:
To: CCE postdoc and graduates
Subject: Crocodile heads
If you are expecting a package of croc heads
please see [this guy] (x1234) in the
Chemistry Stockroom ([this place]).
There was insufficient information on the
package to determine the addressee.
THANK YOU,
Anne

The California legislature has approved a bill to create a holiday hono(u)ring Harvey Milk, “the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet.” He was assassinated, presumably because he had the poor manners to work to better his community and also be gay.

I hear this phrase with surprising frequency, leaving me with the conclusion that I have extremely ordinary genes. So many people seem to have a cousin who looks a lot like me that when someone says, “Do I know you?” I assume they too have a forgotten cousin with long hair, big eyes, and glasses. [...]

For someone who doesn’t like or want kids, I am surprisingly excited about the birth of my friends’ first child. Sarah is, apparently, adorable (confirmed by a source not related by blood — the opinions of parents are rarely credible). And I, after hearing the news at 3:00 am in a welcome phone call (during [...]