I’ve been working on some requested edits for God’s War this week. Revising can be a hell of a lot of fun when you get feedback of the “I’d like more of this! and this! and this!!” variety. Not so fun when you get the “I’m not sure why this doesn’t work, but could you […]
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When the house (including the bathroom and kitchen) is busted down and out for replumbing and rewiring for a week, just how many times did I go to Chipotle? Man, this is a big stack of receipts. I need to get back on budget. I also need to sit down and re-budget based on my
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Even with diabetes, this odd little hippie test insists I shall live until 90. This is mainly because all of my grandparents and great grandparents are in their 80s and 90s. Diabetes genes + Logevity genes = me. I have no idea what the “real age” part of this test means. Apparently, I have the
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Purely aesthetic or completely practical? These are the thoughts that keep me up at night.
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Man must accept death.Woman must die. or: No Plot.Pretty Pictures.
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I know nothing about insurance. Really, nothing. My crash course in how my insurance actually worked was my second day in the hospital, after having come out of a coma 24 hours before, when a woman from the hospital’s billing department called me and asked what my insurance information was. At that point, I couldn’t
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As of tomorrow at 8:00 am, I will officially be an employee of the financial services company downtown, working (officially!) as a document, technical, and copywriter. Benefits start first day. I’m not allowed to disclose how much I make according to the Employee Handbook or I’ll be fired, but I’ll say it’s more than I
They were doing July birthdays today, with cake, and the HR Manager went out and got a sugarfree pie.. just for me. I still have to take a shot for it, but it’s less likely to give me a headache. How terribly sweet.
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As I expected, associating “Good” and “Vabbenif” happens a lot more quickly in my lizard brain, but then, as shown, associating the pale figure with *anything* was something I did a lot more than with the dark figure. Try it for yourself. At least, I think that’s how I read these numbers (“0” was average.
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