February 2007

When you need just the right word… that doesn’t actually exist.

Plotting Failure

Plot should really be a very simple thing. Something bad happens to someone. Then things get worse. I’m pretty good at heaping on trouble, I’m just not sure that in the end, any of it makes any sense. Being a sort of “sit down and see what happens” writer, the whole process of discovery thing

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Worst. Fight Scene. Ever

Fun

Come now, who didn’t LOVE this show? I think Kirk should have just taken his mask off and screamed, “AHA!!!”

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I Felt Terrible….

Wait

… when I was sick. But I could wear such cute clothes! Indeed, I am well aware of the fucked-uppedness of that. “What kept me sane throughout the diet, and stopped me from tipping over the edge and wanting to keep the new skinny self I’d worked so hard to achieve, was the realisation that

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The Secret Lives of Secretaries

Workadoo

Yesterday, Nell and I discovered that someone has been stealing the handsoap bottles in the kitchen and in the coffee bar behind our reception desk at work (yes, we have a coffee bar behind the reception desk). Now we’re missing a huge jug of Jergens lotion. We have no idea who’s doing this, or why

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Gendered Writing

Words

Surprise! If you write from a male POV, you must be a male writer, and if you write from a female POV, you must be a female writer. All hail the gender genie! I think this would have been more amusing if I didn’t peg the whole insert male POV scene followed by “try again”

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Call Me Crazy…

Wacky

… but when I was a kid, I didn’t think, “Golly gee, I want to be a professional Executive Assistant!” And yet, these people exist. Granted, in downtown Chicago they’re making six figures. But really, who would have thunk it?

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