http://minab.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ The thoughts, ramblings, rantings and sighs of a surprisingly sane cat-lady in training. en Vox Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:51:56 -0400 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/my-new-favorite-quote.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/my-new-favorite-quote.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/my-new-favorite-quote.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:51:56 -0400 "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France. After weeks of deathers, birthers, teabaggers, and other utter morons, I feel that it's important to keep in mind that something is not less stupid if a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/my-new-favorite-quote.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb0110168e263c860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-talk-about-a-few-things.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-talk-about-a-few-things.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-talk-about-a-few-things.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:52:30 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225264d0c8fdb0110185df0d5860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c225264d0c8fdb0110185df0d5860f-50si" alt="Nothing special really" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I've become convinced that my bathroom lighting is conspiring to make me panic. I'm wearing purple eyeshadow and liner today, and while I was putting it on I had this feeling that I'd done something terrible wrong and there was no fixing it. Nev... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-talk-about-a-few-things.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb0110185df4c5860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-sell-my-soul-to-the-cosmetic-industry.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-sell-my-soul-to-the-cosmetic-industry.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-sell-my-soul-to-the-cosmetic-industry.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:35:42 -0400 I found an entry I had made a while back, in response to a QoTD if I'm not mistaken, where I railed against cosmetics. Not women who wear cosmetics, but cosmetics in general. "Nobody," I emphatically said, "needs to wear make-up!" I had to laugh... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-sell-my-soul-to-the-cosmetic-industry.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb011017fd91ad860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/nice-to-know-that-im-as-reliable-as-usual.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/nice-to-know-that-im-as-reliable-as-usual.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/nice-to-know-that-im-as-reliable-as-usual.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:22:11 -0400 So, as usual, a boatload of things has happened, all of which I have neglected to write about. So it's good to know that all is well and naught has changed in Mina (doesn't) Blog land. Dig my bullet point style. Firstly, the tests I had at Qui... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/nice-to-know-that-im-as-reliable-as-usual.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb011017fa1149860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-muse-about-a-defective-body-and-culinary-experiments.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-muse-about-a-defective-body-and-culinary-experiments.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-muse-about-a-defective-body-and-culinary-experiments.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:41:02 -0400 My joints have been bothering me. Nothing huge, but my fingers, ankles, shoulders and knees have started popping like crazy. My left wrist has started locking every few weeks, my elbows ache. I'm stiff. It wasn't a huge thing to me, really, I att... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/in-which-i-muse-about-a-defective-body-and-culinary-experiments.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb011015fde74d860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/how-to-lose-friends-and-irritate-people-in-the-customer-service-industry.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/how-to-lose-friends-and-irritate-people-in-the-customer-service-industry.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/how-to-lose-friends-and-irritate-people-in-the-customer-service-industry.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:51:55 -0400 Step 1: Buy a product. Step 2: Take product home and realize that said product is broken in some way. For the sake of this example, product has a minor scratch on it. Step 3: Do NOT take product back to where you bought it. Step 4: Do NOT take ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/how-to-lose-friends-and-irritate-people-in-the-customer-service-industry.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb0110163f1729860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/is-it-wrong-to-enjoy-this.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/is-it-wrong-to-enjoy-this.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/is-it-wrong-to-enjoy-this.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:20:24 -0400 Sure, I'm not getting nearly as much money as I was before, but a girl could definitely get used to 6 hours a day 4 days a week. Yesterday I was productive for the first half of the day, until I ran out of stuff to do. But instead of sitting arou... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/is-it-wrong-to-enjoy-this.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb011015f9f77c860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/you-said-it-kitteh.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/you-said-it-kitteh.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/you-said-it-kitteh.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:41:12 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225264d0c8fdb011015f9aaad860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c225264d0c8fdb011015f9aaad860b-50si" alt="Lolcat Temp Jobs" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/you-said-it-kitteh.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb011015f9aac8860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/oh-that-recession.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/oh-that-recession.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/oh-that-recession.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:49:59 -0400 It's been at least four months since I last posted, and I've really been meaning to. As I've said before though, blogging lives in the realm of boredom and unhappiness for me, so unless I'm feeling astonishingly creative, I don't blog. Usually I j... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/oh-that-recession.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb011015f8d74f860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://minab.vox.com/library/post/i-adore-you-with-a-love-transcending-words-a-heart-ignoring-distance-a-mind-defying-the-impossible.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mina B.) http://minab.vox.com/library/post/i-adore-you-with-a-love-transcending-words-a-heart-ignoring-distance-a-mind-defying-the-impossible.html?_c=feed-rss http://minab.vox.com/library/post/i-adore-you-with-a-love-transcending-words-a-heart-ignoring-distance-a-mind-defying-the-impossible.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:55:52 -0500 Once in a while I listen to Dir en grey and get a shock of nostalgic loneliness. Like a boot to the chest, that voice, those melodies creep through my exterior and chips at the subconscious defenses I've built up against the sort of things that ma... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://minab.vox.com/library/post/i-adore-you-with-a-love-transcending-words-a-heart-ignoring-distance-a-mind-defying-the-impossible.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225264d0c8fdb01098156a709000d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>