December 2004

Is a Rancho Zabaco zinfandel (2002). Unlike most zinfandel’s I was familiar with, this one’s actually a deep, meaty red. Quite tasty. Not only that, but you can get yourself a bottle for $10. Went bike riding today, and went wandering around the ice floes at the beach. I love living near water. In case […]

Cleaned up my blogroll and deleted all the blogs that I just don’t get to regularly. My blogroll doesn’t neccessarily serve as a “read this” list, but an “I read this” list. I also added a bunch that I’ve been swinging over to more recently. A couple of these – Echidne of the Snakes and

I’m going through my blogs, and I checked out the Big Fat Blog cafe press store. They’ve got these stickers and a tote bag that say, “The average American woman is a size 14.” And it occurred to me that what I really wanted was a tote/bumper sticker that said: “The average American woman is

Holy crap, it’s 56 degrees outside. In Chicago. On New Year’s Eve. Global warmings great as long as you don’t live on the coast! Ha. Yes, I’ve just rolled out of bed. I think I’m still on PST. I knew I was still asleep when I tried to dump my protein powder into my coffee

I just got an e-mail from Ginmar, a self-described “blue-collar feminist” currently serving in Iraq. I’d found her lj sometime back through – of all channels – the science fiction circles, where TNH of Making Light re-posted one of her combat posts, and a huge comments controversy ensued (a woman couldn’t have been under fire,

At 3pm, I broke out the Belgian chocolates. I should have been eating my 3pm protein bar, but there was that whole box of Belgian chocolates, and the HR manager and my new boss were trying to figure out who the hell was in charge of getting me to Denver (my credit card is maxed

Yes. I should be writing. You should be too. “I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.” – Vita Sackville-West “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” – John-Paul Sartre “As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races or classes, there will be

So, I’ll be 25 this year. So, I have a lot to do. The idea is to go on a deep-burn: that is, three days a week of fighting classes, two days a week of jogging. I’ve got the three days of fighting classes down fine – it’s the damn jogging routine that I need

Liberated a copy of Gloria Steinem’s Revolution From Within from my mom’s bookshelf. I don’t relate to all the inner child stuff because, well, I really do have fantastic parents, and I didn’t have to deal with childhood abuse, but she’s got some really fascinating stuff in here about self-esteem and how teaching people self-worth

Can you believe this?