August 2005

And yet, women office accountants don’t often make much more than I do. But looking at some of this spreadsheet bullshit that our now twice-fired accountant used to do, I’m wondering why the hell women accountants don’t get paid more. I wonder how much better it used to pay when more men did it? I […]

Kudos to Heather for pointing me toward this site that provides a bunch of info for women who are interested in/new to weight training. Good info on weight, sets, reps, nutrition, and tips for training before and after pregnancy (and for those interested: working out actually tends to *decrease* the discomfort of monthly bleeding and

Sitting around the house, eating sushi and drinking beer, reading the second-to-last book of Zelazny’s Amber series (one of the few old-school SF authors who actually writes women-as-people) at my new digs (pictures coming soon) in the designated reading room full of bookshelves… yea, life is good. Overdid it a little at the gym. I

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And they are good. It really is a binge eating issue. I’ve tried to just eat one of something, you know, moderation, when it comes to bread products, but I just can’t. I either have to do what I’m doing, which is “no bread products!” and then have a cheat day once every couple weeks

Lots of places in Africa even have cities: I felt as if I had been invited under false pretences. I should have been born in a poverty-stricken village, brutally circumcised with a blunt, unsanitised knife with other five-year-old girls, then, a few years later, kidnapped by child soldiers, becoming a sex slave of a rebel

Let me preface this by saying that I really like Michael Cunningham. I’ve read The Hours more than a dozen times, and am, in fact, constantly involved in re-reading it. It just sits next to my bed, and I read a few pages every now and again, and when I finish, I start over. When

I was reading an article the other day about Kate Winslet. It was the usual sort of interview where the interviewer felt it necessary to spend half of the interview talking about Winslet’s weight and how much “slimmer” she is now and what an icon she is for non-slender women and blah blah. In any

Took Friday off work, and spent the entirety of the weekend shelving, buying, and reading books. Also got out another chapter of God’s War and did some editing. Did I mention I spent almost $200 on books? And I wonder where my money goes… P.S. I also went to the gym this weekend, and Katharine

Brendan’s take: I’ve been following the various and sundry reactions on feminist blogs to the now-infamous Dove “real women” ads, and have been waiting for someone to raise the question, to me obvious, about how advertising and beauty culture affects not just the self-image of women, but also the way in which straight men relate