Diversity Statement?

One of the schools I'm applying to asks for an optional "diversity statement, which constitutes " socio-economic status, race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality or place of origin, disability, unique work or life experience, etc." I'm a currently middle-class-ish mid-twenties straight white girl, but I grew up poor, lived in a trailer, single mom with drinking habits, first one ...

Group Theme!

...-) XII (-world-) Guns (-weapon-) Ultimecia (-villain-) Ashe’s Theme (-theme song-) Eden & Phoenix (-summons-) Balthier & Quistis (-main party-) the Knowledgeable One (-stereotype-) Ultimecia (-dissidia-) Cosmo Canyon Tribe (-race-) Red Mage (-job class-) [ i n R E A L I T Y ] Let's start off with the basics: have you been, or are you a member of any clubs/organizations? If so, ...

Blackout, 10th Doctor/Torchwood, PG-13, 5 of 5

... hours later Morgan had woken up. His head had felt the clearest it had ever been. Sparks still hummed inside of him. Martha had broken the news that he was a being called an Electrode, a largely sentient race but not too powerful. The Doctor had helped fill in Morgan with the basics of this as well. Now it was time to leave Torchwood. “So are we all that bad?” Gwen asked Morgan. He smiled at her...

FF: Crave 1-6

... even managed to slip out of the office early for the first time in weeks. Olivia had sounded so disappointed when she had called and said she would be late—again. She had done everything she could to race through what she absolutely had to get done, and decided to leave the rest of it until the next day, or except for what she absolutely had to bring home with her. With every block she had gotten...

A note to members.

Okay, headline: Mocking people for being different than you makes you an impudent, mannerless little moron unworthy of socializing with the rest of the human race. I don't care if you're white and make fun of somebody for being black or you're some popular chick in high school picking on the short nerd with the glasses. Someone else's identity is not your problem, and if you choose to make it your...

Thoughts on The Waters of Mars (aired last night)

... and Jack from the Season Three finale amongst burning flames was a nice touch. It reminded me simaltaneously of The Master burning and the sadness The Doctor still feels about Gallifrey having been completely destroyed, leaving him the last of a once great race. - Did anyone else get reminded of Calypso from Pirates of The Carribean with the actress playing Maggie? Maybe I'm just a weirdo?

Ten Plane Movies That May Have Flown Under Your Radar

.... WING COMMANDER In the far future, a fighter pilot must discover his connection to an exiled race of humans with navigational superpowers to help save Earth from extinction at the hands of a vicious alien race. GENRE: Sci-Fi/Action RELEASED: 1999 CAST: Freddie Prize Jr', Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, ...

Black Americans Angry Over Color of Tiger's Skanks??

...little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world...less likely to actually date outside their race than are other groups. "There is a...the intensely private golfer's views on race? "I would like to say no, .... Carmen Van Kerckhove, founder of the race-meets-pop-culture blog Racialicious, said ...One toward the apparent pattern in the race of his partners, and the second ...

My getting back in shape post-pregnancy journey

... to run the full distance before this. It is really quite impossible to just disappear for a few hours when you have a baby! Anyway, I am just going to treat tomorrow's run as a little welcome initiation back into exercising again. My goal is simple; to enjoy the race and finish it in good shape. Wish me luck! All the best to those who are running tomorrow, whether the full, half or ten :)

... lunch of red bean soup and a quasadilla.  Afterwards we put up the tree and decorated it.  It looks great!  I'll have to post pics of it. Sunday night we watched the rest of Duplicity and then Amazing Race.  Big Easy's undoing in Prague was painful to watch, it appeared to us that he'd written correct combination of the 5 letters (F R A N Z) at least once on his scratch paper, and with only 5 ...