Rome
Why is Cleopatra a drugged out, sex-crazy, slightly dimwitted pale-skinned whore with no hair?
It’s Like It’s a Real Book or Something!
Halfway through Black Desert. It’s at about 45,000 words, that point at which, which you print it out, it almost feels like you’re writing a real book. Repeat after me: Draft by October! Draft by October!
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Numbers for the last Four Days
1458391 939467 1269491 13169135 These are a lot better than they were back when I was trying to squeeze every last drop out of my expired insulin bottle, but not as good as I’d like them to be (under 110, baby!). Really, the insulin is the only difference. I continue to eat and work out
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Ranting About the Short Form
Because really, it never gets old.
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Around the House
Steph’s in-laws are here for the week to work on the cabinets and the plumbing in this 1940s-era fixer-upper. Steph and the Old Man have a really great coffee maker that’s shiny and kewl and makes the best coffee ever, but it had been taking progressively longer and longer for the coffee to brew. Steph’s
The "I’m Fine!" Emergency Visit
Final Cost: $836.75 On the one hand: it’s better than being dead. On the other hand: they spent 4 hours and charged me $836.75 to tell me that there was nothing wrong with me. And people wonder why poor people never go to the doctor until they’re literally bleeding and falling over on the floor?
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Because "Women Have no Freedom at All"
The protagonist of one of Portugal’s most gripping courtroom dramas has died after almost 20 years in which she fooled everyone, including her live-in companion, that she was actually a male army general. With her general’s uniform complete with medals, Maria Teresinha Gomes cut a dashing figure as the respectable and charming General Tito Anibal
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