LTP: Too Much Free Time
So with Hurricane Sandy followed by a nor’easter, I haven’t had school or work for two weeks. This has led me to find creative ways to amuse myself, especially during the times that I had no Internet or transportation.
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How to Help Post-Hurricane Sandy
By now, you’ve no doubt seen the terrible images of Hurricane Sandy coming from the Northeastern US. I know many of you are probably looking for ways to give, but don’t know exactly where to start. Below is a list of places to which you can donate money, supplies, or if you’re nearby, your time.
Read MoreThis Lunchtime Poll has a Busted Arm
Happy Friday, my lovelies. No, I didn’t break my arm. I’m talking about my waving cat.
Read MoreLunchtime Poll: Train of Thought
I was on the train this morning, and I had a thought. Because the train left the station at 7:39 a.m., I was sleep deprived, so it fell somewhere between “Why do I do this to myself” and “Ronkonkoma is fun to say” in my brain.
Read MoreLunchtime Poll: It’s Wine O’Clock Somewhere
Do you have a special favorite wine? I’m not talking about the box of Franzia or the jug of Carlo Rossi, though those certainly have their place. I’m talking about the wine that’s hard to find, or a little out of your price range, so you get really excited when you get your hands on a bottle or three.
Read MoreLunchtime Poll: Sandwiches
I work on my school’s campus, which is a two-plus hour commute from my apartment, so on the days I have to be there in the early a.m., I tend to either pack my lunch the night before or hit the Subway in the student commons. Either way, work day usually means sandwich day.
Read MoreLunchtime Poll: Toilet Paper
Time for an ages old debate: how do you orient your toilet paper? Are you a nice, normal over-the-top person, like me?
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Birthday Giveaway: A Hat from Knit Like A Boss
Persephone was born in October, just as the weather started to chill. Which means you probably need something to keep warm.
Read MoreLunchtime Poll: Karaoke
There’s a sort of science to picking the perfect karaoke song. It has to be a well-known track, something catchy that people can sing along to easily. A little melodrama and theatricality doesn’t hurt either, especially if you’ve been tossing back cocktails all night (and, really, who does karaoke sober?).
Read MoreLunchtime Poll: It’s Tights Season
I love tights. I really, really do. Maybe it’s because I have plenty of inner thigh meat so I like wearing dresses without the dreaded chub rub, but I could gladly bypass summer and stay in my hosiery year round.
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New Show Recap: Doctor Who, Episode 7.4, “The Power of Three”
Welcome back, Whovians. Last week we visited Mercy, a town where we learned that making human-cyborg hybrids for wars is a bad idea and that apparently only mothers are sad, kind, and fierce all at the same time.
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Meals for Broke Students Who Are Sick of Pizza Rolls
I like food. I’m also a grad student living on her own for the first time since undergrad who isn’t used to supplying her own meals and knowing what things cost. So I’m trying to devise new meals that are cheap and easy, but still relatively nutritious.
Read MoreNew Show Recap: Doctor Who, Season 7 Episode 2 “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship”
Hello, Ponds! Or Persephoneers. Pondsephoneers? Whatever. Last time we met the Doctor, he was summoned by the Daleks to save them from themselves, or at least, from the imperfect versions of themselves they’d locked away in an asylum. He also saved Amy and Rory’s crumbling marriage and met Oswin, a human-turned-Dalek who had created an elaborate dream for herself in …
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I’m About to Start My Ph.D. and I’m Pretty Sure I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
Suddenly everything is changing. I’m not exaggerating there. My life is about to flip-turn and shoot off the wall in a brand new direction. After five years staying with my parents, I finally just moved in with a roommate. In early September I’ll begin working on a Ph.D., suddenly thrust from unemployment (I was laid off in March) to full-time …
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