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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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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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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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
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
I’m wondering if this sugar-goodness is just the vicoden? Maybe I should take a couple aspirin regularly, cause this stuff is great for my numbers (for those late to the show, a “normal” person’s blood sugar is 80. When I was in a coma in the hospital last year I was something closer to 860).
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This whole hang-out-with-your-boyfriend-five-times-a-year thing? Tough. Manageable, and works for us, but tough. Particularly the last couple weeks at the tail end of the three month stretches. Tough. Good thing I’ve got so much shit to do.
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My life is one big loop of working writing and novel writing. I’m not complaining, mind, it’s just that it means I’m far more prone to lose track of time these days.
“Now, being a predominantly fantasy writer, I don’t often deal with race (as we know it, I mean) in my writing.” Ummmmm. Um? Are there any other fantasy writers out there who consciously write work that they believe “doesn’t deal” with race? For serious? I mean, SERIOUSLY?