7th?? and other things
Having been forced out of bed way too early by my cat, who is cute but awfully persistent, I feel the need to share everything I've read with you in a link-happy post. Aren't you excited?

The NY Times review of the new fox show Skin is surprisingly, nay shockingly, positive. I'm still weirded out by the idea of seeing someone I sort of know on TV, and also kind of fasci-volted by exactly how trashy and awful it looks. Luckily I will be in class tonight taking a midterm so I won't be able to watch.

Somehow, and this absolutely blows my mind, the U of C is number 7 on Mother Jones' list of top 10 activist campuses. I mean, there was that taco bell thing, and the guys who slept in a tent during the war, and occasionally Pete'O goes a little nuts about Gen. Clarke and starts speaking Minnesotan, but... I mean, when I was an undergrad I could only get 3 people to care about Burma. It was one of my biggest hesitations (in my naive youth) about the school--I would not be able to express my political outrage as vocally.
(caveat here. Of course I could have, some people did. But I'm pretty much a follower when it comes to activism, and it wasn't easy to become part of a cause or a group. The Feminist Majority, for example, kept switching their meeting times&locations and seemed to have elections every 2 weeks. I did, however, briefly right for the pseudo-socialist paper, and admitting that may make me unelectable to public office. damn.)

I mean, 7th most activist campus?? WHERE??? I would expect the 7th most activist campus to storm the admin building occasionally, and we haven't done that since the 60's.

A reputation the U of C does have is as the suicide capital campus. Which is untrue. There is usually about one suicide every year and it sends the entire campus into mourning/denial. There have been three at NYU this semester, which is just so incredibly sad.

To those of you who are confused about what I'm doing with my life, I want to grow up to be Andrew Taylor. I actually don't know enough about him to really claim that, but I love his blog. Mostly because it often validates my existence.

And to those of you who marveled at the milk-in-glass-bottles that the milkman delivers to my mom's house in suburban boston (and no, I'm not kidding about that), you can get it from Oberweis Dairy here in Chicago. So it's not a total anachronism.

Now I've totally overrun my extra time this morning and need to get to work.
- posted by Heidi @ 8:22 AM