Maybe it's because I sympathize a little too well, but this cracks me up:

http://debtsucks.chipin.com/get-me-out-of-the-red

Okay so I don't have $50k of debt and I'm a little older, but still...this could be me.

I have an advising committee! Huzzah!

Dr Ryan Howell, the fabulous, kind, positive, brilliant psychologist will be my new adviser. I'm excited. He seems not only to be willing and supportive, but also helpful.

With Rita as my second reader, I'm all set!

Now I'm contemplating making my own life a little more difficult, but my thesis a bit more kick-ass by conducting interviews to develop better items for my sexual esteem scale.

Anyhow :)

Academia is sucking a little less at the moment.

It's called researchlj
How do I link to a community?
Anyhow...it's going to be about/for research on livejournal, blogs, internet, etc from a social science perspective.

Monica...you should post about your Masters thesis. Yes. Good good.

Also, would you mind helping me promote it? I suck at that sort of thing.

my comment about my survey. Please copy and paste the whole comment :) Thanks!

Hi.

I am doing a research study on how people use livejournals. I am interested in the differences between what topics people write about in public versus private posts. Also, I want to understand more about how people express their identity and their sexuality in their livejournals. If you are 18 or older and interested in filling out my survey (10-30 minutes), please follow this link: http://www.oeducationalevents.com/LJ.HTM

A little about me:

My name is Kat. I am a graduate student in the Human Sexuality Studies program at SFSU. My email address is: researcherkat@gmail.com

Thanks!

Kat Scoggin

My advising professor is Deborah Tolman (dtolman@sfsu.edu).

So my last thesis was painful. I mean getting anyone to take any interest in it, academically speaking, was like pulling teeth. Everyone had an excuse not to advise it. No one had any helpful input.

Now, everyone I talk to is super excited about my MA thesis. Not just "nod-and-smile" interested, but really, genuinely excited and anticipating what I come out with. So refreshing. So nice.

So much pressure.

Anywho...about my thesis.
Adolescent sexuality
from the perspectives of two stages of development, adolescence and early adulthood
adolescent perspective gotten from livejournal blogs
early adulthood perspective from online interviews with blog authors

Fun times.


btw. life's great. Jim's great. Making wedding plans is fun. I love my life.

Current Mood: happy

It has to do with livejournal and sexuality. It's a quick, 30 question survey. It would be super great if you filled it out and reposted it in your own journals or communities you read. The more people I get, the better!

Click here to take my survey

http://art.sf0.org/kittimeow/taskDetail/?id=507

So I'm moving this weekend.
Don't you wanna help?
Friday afternoon/night.
Saturday morning.

I offer free food. And my undying love and affection.
Please please please help!

I'll be needing help starting around noon on Friday. If you're available and you want my undying love and affection. Please give me a call so we can meet up at my old place or new place.



p.s. I do not exist. Because I do not read LJ consistently. Love me even though I default on my LJ. Please love me.

It's called "the ex" available from overstock.com

Dear you,

Congratulations! I am very pleased to inform you of your acceptance into our Master of Arts Program in Human Sexuality Studies. As you know, our Program is research and policy focused, and we are highly competitive­we accept only one in 5 applicants­and your excellence honors you and our Program as well. On behalf of the faculty and staff of the Human Sexuality Studies Program at San Francisco State University, I would like to welcome you into our new intellectual community.

Please feel free to contact Professor Niels Teunis (our Graduate Student adviser), our program coordinator Mona, and any of our other faculty, should you wish to discuss your admission or courses.

Under separate cover, you will receive information from the Graduate Division and from the Registrar regarding touch-tone and walk-in registration.

Graduate Orientation: You are cordially invited to our graduate student orientation to take place on August 25, 2006. Refreshments will be served, and you will have the opportunity to meet with all of the faculty and your fellow incoming graduate students. We will be back in touch with you regarding the exact time and location of this event.

Please also note that you are invited to participate in our Fifth Annual Summer Institute on, “ Rethinking Young People’s Sexuality and Reproductive Health,” on July 10-28, 2006. You can receive up to 6 academic elective credits applicable to your graduate program at SFSU. I have enclosed a brochure on the Institute which takes place on the SFSU campus or your can follow the link to http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/Index.cfm?Page=72. This opportunity would be a great supplement to your graduate studies in Human Sexuality. Please contact Jennifer Feeney, the Summer Institute coordinator at 415 437 5113 or nsrc_si@sfsu.edu, if you have further questions.

For information on the current registration fees and tuition at San Francisco State University please go to http://www.sfsu.edu/~bursar/welcome.htm for the most current information.


Please be in touch with us by May 12, 2006 to confirm your acceptance of your place in our dynamic program for the Fall 2006. This letter is being e-mailed and mailed to you.

Again, congratulations from the faculty, and we wish you all the best of success in your career. We look forward to working with you to make your graduate studies a challenging and rewarding experience. Welcome aboard!




Sincerely,



Gilbert Herdt, Ph.D.
Director of Human Sexuality Studies

Ever find some really interesting piece of information you get really excited about and you just want to share it? and then you do share it and you keep getting stupid responses to it?

So in my SFSI training, we had the segment on the g-spot and female ejaculation. And yeah...so we don't know what it is or where it comes from (ejaculate), but I did learn some cool stuff. First, the g-spot is actually the urethral sponge which has lots of blood vascular tissue which fills with blood when the woman is aroused. That's why the g-spot feels different when the woman is turned on and the blood flowing. The legs of the clitoris that extend into the body are on either side of this urethral sponge. Now the cool part... if you stroke the g-spot (think of the come hither gesture you make with your finger), the woman is more likely to ejaculate. And if you DO NOT want to ejaculate, than tapping the g-spot instead of stroking reduces the liklihood.

Tell me that isn't fucking interesting and damn cool!?!

Well I told the guy I'm seeing this information and he gets all incredulous because he doesn't think female ejaculation exists because it always seemed faked or like pissing to him on porn. Like porn is anything resembling reality? WTF? Then I tell him that I have ejaculated before and he gets less openly skeptical, but still. It's FASCINATING to me and he's not only not particularly interested, but actively disbelieves me. Gr.

So then I tell my ex about it. I tell him because he was the one who made me ejaculate so many years ago and he had asked me questions about it then that I couldn't answer that now I could. So I wanted to tell him becuase I thought he'd be interested. You know what his reponse is? "In the future, I would appreciate it if you did not talk about sex to me because I don't think my girlfriend would appreciate it." Okay... if you're girlfriend can't take you talking about sex to a friend you haven't seen in 4.5 years and only talked to via IM maybe a dozen times in that period, than either you're girlfriend's fucking nuts or you're using her to cover the fact that you just want me out of your life - that you have no interest in building up any part of the friendship we used to have.

Well fuck you both! I will share with my cool and wonderful friends this fascinating tidbit of kickass little knowledge and you can fuck off!

Shown below, is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by a 96 year old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times.


Dear Sir:
I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his presenting the check and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honor it.

I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my entire salary, an arrangement, which, I admit, has been in place for only eight years.

You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account $30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.

My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways.

I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and letters, when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, prerecorded, faceless entity, which your bank has become.

From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh and blood person. My mortgage and loan repayments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank, by check, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate.

Be aware that it is an offense under the Postal Act for any otherperson to open such an envelope. Please find attached an Application Contact Status, which I require your chosen employee to complete.

I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative.

Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Notary Public, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof.

In due course, I will issue your employee with a PIN number, which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits, but again, I have modeled it on the number of button presses required of me
to access my account balance on your phone bank service.

As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Let me level the playing field even further.
When you call me, press buttons as follows:

1. To make an appointment to see me
2. To query a missing payment
3. To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there
4. To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping
5. To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
6. To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home
7. To leave a message on my computer, a password to access my computer is required. Password will be commuinicated to you at a later date to the Authorized Contact.
8. To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 7.
9. To make a general complaint or inquiry. The contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service.

While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.

Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.

May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous New Year?

Your Humble Client

I didn't get into CSPP

no grad school for me :(

just called me for an interview. Interesting.

My back-up school already sent out calls for the first round of offers to the Human Sexuality program. What to do when you don't make it into your back up school. Now if Wright doesn't take me....what the fuck am I goign to do wfor a year? Maybe I should apply for the shift leader position in Fremont. I mean I'd be commuting like an hour to work every day, ...and would the raise I would get be worth the cost of BARTing my ass to Fremond? No.

Eek. Most start getting into marketing Orchid. Maybe if I can get it up to at least 2 parties a month, I can pay my bills with that and my day job. Of course...that assumes I make $500 per party which wont happen. So I guess I need to be doing a party a week. And of course move somewhere cheaper. Craigslist sports a variety of $500-600 rooms in decent locations. Of course...I have to taken into account an additional $60-70/month in transportation if I move to those places. Still makes it much cheaper than living here I suppose.

I guess I'll wait to hear back from Wright before I actually...you know...start looking for jobs again. I hate this shit.

Check this out and do it for me. :)
http://kevan.org/nohari?view=kittimeow
http://kevan.org/johari?name=kittimeow

Thanks

I just got my bonus check for last quarter's time period.$436 more or less :)

woohoo. my credit card will be so happy.

So the "nice" girl who needs to eat a hamburger is nicknamed "swordfight" because there's always two "swords" fighting over her. She REALLY needs to eat a cheeseburger. I mean She's a fucking 10 year old boy walking around in a bra...that she hasn't grown into.

They also "sword"fight over our lovely hostess who deserves it.

The real problem is that the way these fuckdicks react to Swordfight, my lovely hostess, and my super hot roommate, makes me want to cry. Because all I want is for someone to find me attractive. That's not true. That's not all I want at all. I want so much more than that. But it's hard to get what I want when I have to beat out the sticks and the sluts to even get enough of someone's time to see if they are anything near what I want. Fucking men.

Okay so I'm back. And I'm even unpacked! Woohoo!

What's the haul
3 sets of pajamas
a super cute skirt
a sassy red leather coat
some shirts and other clothes
a quesadilla maker
silicone bakeware
ornaments
DVDs including the last unowned set of Sex and the City and season 1 West Wing
a david eggers book
batteries!!!!! god i needed these
sewing supplies
$100 cash
$40 in IKEA gift cards
Cranium!
a super sassy scale i wanted
and...

24 pairs of socks
including a pair of Japanese toe socks

My family still makes me tense. I still want a dog. I /almost/ finished my father's family tree tapestry gift before I gave it to him (but if anyone wants to see it, I have it here to finish the last bit of it before sending it back to him). I haven't slept much in the last week. I bought myself CIV IV (not related). And though I am working most of the week....here are plans

New Year's Eve low-key high-octane festivities (come in pajamas or fancy dress or whatever you feel like) at my place.

Thursday Jan 5, drinks of Monkey Head at Triple Rock

anyone else who wants to see me...

I will be in the city on Monday the 2nd for an afternoon Dr. appt but lunch before or dinner afterwards or general frolicking is great (hint hint Danielle)

Wednesday after 5
Saturday the 7th I have off!!!
Sunday after 4

Incidentally....did anyone else catch the premiere of 24?