pleasures

So, yesterday, unsolicited, a classmate told me that I was the person she knew in grad school who was the most qualified to take exams. She said that in all the classes we had together(and it's been three semesters in a row now) she always thought I was the smartest person in the class.
Sometimes, an unsolicited compliment is really helpful.
Also, I am feeling limited by a lack of LJ-icon options. I think I need 4 right now, elementally based, because I've been feeling the earth and fire recently and don't have good representation for my myriad elemental aspects.

sometimes Ani is what I need

( cradle and all )

beauty

I have been thinking recently about gendered standards of beauty and the ways in which they are acheivable. Society constructs interesting dichotomies in terms of what it means to be an attractive woman vs. what it means to be an attractive man
( musings about gender )

venting

seems like the last thing I should do right now. Because everything is so jumbled up, anger mixed with pain mixed with love mixed with sadness mixed with desire. So I won't. I'll eat something today instead and write more.