OMG

If you do Google M.B., this is like the 8th site to come up. I need to fix that. I could get sued!

Who's your celebrity crush?

Today I received a letter from home, written on napkins, containing a "How well do you know me" quiz designed by Floss and my family's answers for me. Here they are:

fav.	Mum	Floss	Lillian	Dad	Correct Answer
color	brown	blue	blue	orange	blue, brown, pink
food	catfish	sushi	vegan chocolate cake	vegan pancakes	pie
band	TMBG	TMBG	TMBG	Death Cab for Cutie	TMBG, duh.
book	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Coraline	Tractatus	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
movie	Rushmore	Rushmore	Rushmore	The Royal Tennenbaums	Rushmore
hobbies	DJ, comics, reading, sewing, math	DJ, comics, reading, sewing, math	DJ, comics, reading, sewing, math	art	drawing
celeb. crush	John Linnell	“that chick from But I’m a Cheerleader”	John Linnell	Allison Bechdel	John Linnell
fav. class	logic	drawing	logic	Alan… guy at Moore	Language Acquisition
least fav. class	M-rrie B-rgman	M-rrie B-rgman	M-rrie B-rgman	M-rrie B-rgman	M-rrie B-rgman
least fav. food	melon	bacon	meatballs	steak	fast food

My father's answers amused me- Tractatus, dad? I've never even read it! Death Cab? They're so gloomy! Obviously he just didn't want to say TMBG, since everybody else did, and this is the man who won't order what he wants at a restaurant if someone else is getting it.

One of these days poor M-rrie B-rgman is going to Google herself and she will find this site and she will be sad. Actually I'm thinking of adding my current math professor to the Hate List after what happened today with the midterm. I was working along, rushing a bit, and feeling very anxious, and then twenty minutes before the test was over she came in and gave us THE OTHER HALF OF THE TEST that she'd forgotten to xerox.

It was not good.

Everyone's telling me I should go to the head of the department, but I feel like a tattletale. And I went to my professor's office hours today and she was spectacularly unhelpful. She says I should stay at Smith for Thanksgiving in order to study math. Um, no. I do two or three hours of it a day already, and I think I deserve a break.

Besides, I need to see my awesome family.

The day after

Snippets of conversations overheard while walking through campus:
"-no point in rioting now, this election was legit-"
"-shit's gonna hit the fan-"
"-this administration is racist, sexist, and agist- how can people not realize that?-"
"-but from a black woman's perspective, it's-"
"-great. That's just great- I really feel good about my home state now, WAY TO GO, OHIO!-"
"-Mom. I cannot believe you actually- mom. Did you just forget that film we watched together, because it seems like you did-"
"-the most inane-"
"-how could the American people be so stupid?!"

Me at Chinese lunch table, spewing angry Zhonglish:
"Wo bu mingbai de shi, weishenme wo men nominated Kerry? Shei dou bu xihuan ta! Women bu tai congmingle!" Only I was so angy everything was coming out fourth tones.

It's not just stupidity, though- let's give our compatriots some credit. I'd say it's a pretty balanced mix of stupidity, selfishness, obstinacy, obliviousness, and greed.