I'm Fairly Often Just Completely Happy

DOUGLAS: Oh well, come on, no one's truly happy. ARTHUR: I'm truly happy! MARTIN: Oh God. DOUGLAS: No, Arthur, you are cheery. No one's interested in the secret of true cheeriness. ARTHUR: No, that's not true. I'm fairly often just completely happy. Like, for instance, when you get into a...

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We Live on Avenue Q

Last weekend, I joined some G & S friends and Bri and her friend Robert for a trip to Leeds to see Avenue Q. Doo doo doo ba da baa, doo doo doo ba da baa, waaaaa! (Source) That may have been the fourth time I'd seen it. I'm not obsessed (yes I am)...

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Guest Post: Eugene's Story

I'm excited to announce that I have some guest posts lined up! After I posted my untestimony, one of the things that struck me was how willing people were to share their own stories. It prompted me to invite a few people to tell them publicly.If you would like to tell your story of transition out...

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Academic Silliness Makes Me Grumpy

"Gilbert and Mulkay adopted the term 'discourse analysis' to describe the kind of empirical work they were advocating. However, with hindsight, this was perhaps not a wise choice, as at the time there were two other forms of analysis which were known by this title." (Wooffit, 2005, p. 39). The heading...

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Be Kind, Have Fun, and Carry a Lemon

In my last post, I spent a little time fangirling about John Finnemore. In this post, I'm going to spend a lot of time fangirling about John Finnemore. Because this weekend, I travelled down to London to be in the audience for John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, a very wonderful radio comedy sketch...

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Ukulele, Banish Evil

So, you remember my ongoing war with the ukulele player upstairs?* Oh, the fun we had! He played at midnight, and I sent him notes, and I complained about him on Facebook, and Henrik and I stood on the hill outside our building just to glare at him, and I wished he wouldn't be so bad at the ukulele. I was not a member of the ukulele fanclub. Or the fanclub of the guy upstairs.** But between...

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You Are Very Welcome to Have a Dishwasher

I'm mostly back to this being my life. But today I've used every excuse from "but I'm hungry" to "but my shoes are wet" to avoid going to the library, so I thought I might as well add "but I have to update my blog" to the list. Fortunately for my productivity, all I have to do is cross-post something...

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Greater Love Has No One Than This

Wow, you guys. I'm pretty overwhelmed right now. In the words of the great philosopher Arthur Shappey, "other people are great!" After my last post, I got inundated by emails, tweets, Facebook messages, wall posts, texts, and even good old face-to-face conversations about my post. Congratulatory,...

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