Visions of Leia
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What I Did Today
Aside from line edits. Steph and I went over to the German Fest at the Dayton fairgrounds. It was a small crowd and not a big event or anything, but we ate schnitzel and german potato salad and got our faces painted and went on some rides and did a little shopping, and Stephanie won
Today’s Song, Stuck on Repeat
… as I finish up the last 20 pages of the latest round of GW line edits. Fitting song for the last push of this, I think. Burning Bridges – Christ Pureka This is a story of burning bridges and allowing time to pass this is a story of forgiveness and breaking things in my
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Fats, Carbs, Sugar and Inflammation
My last day in the hospital last year, I spoke with a nutritionist about my new “diabetic diet.” For those of you unfamiliar with how diabetes works, a short general explanation: I have an autoimmune disease which was triggered by “who knows what” but likely some kind of virus that told my immune system that
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Choose Your Own Adventures That Never Quite Made It…
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The Civil War in 4 Minutes
I took a whole course on the Civil War, and being a history buff, it’s something I have some passing knowledge about (that is, more than most, but it’s not my interest or my specialty). That said, it didn’t occur to me how the north had won that battle, strategy-wise, until I saw this visual
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Christmas in August
My insulin has, technically, expired this week, and as we all know, I don’t want to pull what I did a month ago and use expired insulin for 2 months and watch my health deteriorate because I was living on credit cards and too fucking poor to live adequately. But I wanted to wait just
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Geeky Passions
In a discussion about the origins of the word “geek,” a coworker pointed me to the Wikipedia entry for the word, where, among the uncited definitions, I found this: A definition common among self-identified geeks is: “one who is primarily motivated by passion,” indicating somebody whose reasoning and decision making is always first and foremost
Just Call Me Tina
The IT boys have decided they should just call me Tina… Tina the Tech Writer: She’s the technical writer in Dilbert’s engineering department. Tina believes any conversation within hearing distance is intended as an insult to her profession and her gender. She strives to maintain her dignity while surrounded by engineers who don’t have a