November 2005

“Strong drink.” – Daniel Handler, author of the Limony Snicket books, when asked how he kept his confidence in his first book through 37 rejections

A bit of a hunger night. Should have gone to the gym. Was bloody fucking cold, and I wasn’t dressed for the walk home, dammit. I’m going to seek out some yogurt and type a little faster. I’ve got to finish this book.

Huh? That is all.

Fell on the stairs coming up from the train platform yesterday. I smashed the hell out of my right middle finger. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but when I woke up this morning, it was pretty stiff and and sore. It’s not puffy, though, and I can bend it easily. But

Good stuff.

We have a new person, let’s call her Alana, working site ac. for us. She requested our team contact info, and here’s what Yellow sent to her (names and numbers have been altered, of course): Dee W. – Office – 773-XXX-XXXX – that’s all you’ll need for he’s afraid of site walks and never leaves

Snow!

Now young women tend to label the topless photos “empowering” and “liberating”. A recent survey of 2,000 15-19-year-old girls found that 67% considered “glamour model” their ideal profession. Faced daily with the evidence that women have to be sexually attractive to be considered successful why wouldn’t young women choose to make a profession of it?

Simon Owens has a shortish interview with me up at Bloggasm.