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So I'm back at school and already this is turning out to be an interesting quarter. Different. In my Pyschobiology of Women discussion section we just had the most unheated debate on Female circumcision ever. And not even on the expected side. Nearly every person who talked seemed to come out for the practice, taking the "cultural relativist" POV saying things like "it's their culture," "it's beautiful to their people" "it's like dying your hair, getting piercings" etc.... (Someone even said "it was like getting baptized.") No one would really come out against it, or seemed to feel strongly about it. And this was a class of mostly women. So odd.


In other news, I've just lost my roommate. Tragedy, yes. She was a tricky sort, totally confusing me by moving in but not actually living here. I mean, she did for a random day or two to keep up appearances, it seems, but then she couldn't take the pressure of her life of subturfuge. She cracked today, snuck in during the two and a half hour period when I went to get lunch, and then *BAM* I come back to discover all her stuff gone. Pretty sneaky, sis.


Now I just have to hope that the UW will forget my room exists and not assign me a new roommate. I would really love a super single.