my new (internet) home

Just wanted to welcome everyone to the new site design, by aag. (Thanks aag!) It feels like I just moved out of a rental unit into a new home: more responsibility, but a lot more flexibility. Oh, and, it’s been at alphafemme.net for a while now, but make sure all your links are updated to reflect that, because alphafemme.wordpress.com is officially defunct!

It has essentially what it had before: archives, blogroll, about page, categories, tags, recent posts, twitter feed. New features are a contact form, where you can email me right from this website, recent comments, where you can see what people are commenting on, and “stuff I’m reading,” which I’m most excited about! I read all my blogs via Google reader, and one of the features of Google reader is that if I like what I’m reading, I can “share” it, and the post I’ve shared will be added to a feed of my shared posts. So the “stuff I’m reading” widget over on the right contains the most recent blog posts I’ve read and decided to broadcast to everyone.

My banner and design are new too, obviously, and aag actually designed several different banners following a similar theme, so when you hit refresh or load the page new, the banner will change. Go ahead, try it! SO COOL!

Lastly, you can now share my posts with one click of a mouse, via Facebook, email, tumblr, stumbleupon, twitter, or digg (see the wee little icons at the bottom of each post). I just like to make it easier for you to spread the love ;)

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I know I’ve been slow on substantive posting this month. That’s been on account of several things:
(1) writing graduate school applications has been taking up a lot of my writing energy this month;
(2) the statistics class I’m now enrolled in (a pre-requisite for the grad programs I’m applying for) is taking up a lot of my non-writing-focused energy;
(3) a lot of the things I’ve been thinking about are time-consuming even to think about, let alone write about (see my post on allyship last week, which took a week and a half of turning around in my brain before I could spit it out into a post; and that post has inspired more thoughts and things to write about, which are in turn taking some time to ferment).
But, after February 1 (deadline of my last grad application), I have a lot to write about and a lot more time in which to write. So sit tight! Don’t go anywhere! Well, ok, you can go, but just make sure to come back :)

A quick note: I posted on twitter a while back (before the umbrella poll) that I was looking for practical but above all CUTE (/fashionable) black leather knee-high boots — something I can wear to work, or around the city, or to a dance party. Turns out a pair of boots like that is harder to find than I’d thought. BUT! I found them! At Shoe Biz on Haight Street (boot by Miz Mooz). Here they are (I think the boots in this photo are brown, but mine are black, just to be clear):

Look at the BUTTONS!!! So cute!