August 2005

‘I was shy. I didn’t have any confidence. I hid behind clothes that covered up my thin wrists. I remember being pushed about by the boys at school and it was pretty tough for me. I took it hard. For six months I didn’t want to go to school. But sport became my revenge. Because […]

Following on the weird dreams caused by hot weather post of Wendryn’s, here’s last night’s weird caper: I dreamed that I met this really attractive doctor who was working with poor people around Lawrence. His sister, who was a reader of my blog, brought me there and introduced us. He was obviously hot on me

Me, Jenn, the SO and B are all going out for GOOD FOOD and MARTINIS tonight!!! Woot!! Woooooooooootttttttt!!

Sour Duck had some thoughts on my Intelligent Blogging post. Cool, right? She disagreed with some of the things I said, and got all riled up to write, and then: I initially felt very charged and excited by the prospect of writing about some of the issues Kameron inadvertently raised for me through her post;

Keira Knightley is just so cool.

For those interested, I will be guestblogging over at World Fantasy Award Winning author Jeff VanderMeer’s place starting Monday. I’m going to try and be very polite. We’ll see how long that lasts…

As somebody who identifies as being “Mostly Straight,” I’ve still had my fair share of “girl crushes,” so I was interested to read this piece in The NY Times about the apparent “resurgence” of women feeling free to express infatuation with one another. Oh, did I mention it’s purely infatuation, not attraction? Not at all.

Had myself wound pretty tight the last couple of days. Getting into the new house routine has been a little stressful, and getting used to my much smaller room has been a lesson in patience. There’s a trick to getting around the room without banging into bookshelves and overturning the fan that involves a lot

Wow. Pfizer, maker of the Viagra, has patented a pill for “premature climax.” No, no, not for men – For women. Has anybody ever had a “problem” with this? I mean, come once, you can just come again, you know? The “recovery” period for most women really isn’t that long. And what’s wrong with having

I take far too much delight in Pirate paraphenalia. (via pharyngula)