I was in the breakroom this morning dumping Splenda into my coffee, and one my coworkers said, “Ah, another one who takes a little coffee with their sugar.” “Oh yeah,” I said. “I once went out to coffee with a friend who wanted to try the roast I was using, and when she took a […]
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A family adapts to life in post-apocalyptic France in this intense drama, which follows Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and her family as they arrive at their country home to find the world has undergone a catastrophic event, and utter chaos reigns. SWEET. I have found a movie to keep me and my cheeses company tonight.
This is another TMI IUD post. I write about my experiences with the IUD here because it’s been really difficult for me to find fuck-all first-hand information about it, and I figure I’m doing a public service to other women interested in the option, though my results may no longer be typical since the whole
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As clever as this thing is, I have such affection for my dragonfly bag and separate laptop bag… plus, you know, it’s not like I’m carrying around my laptop everywhere, whereas I generally carry my insulin around everywhere; it just makes more sense for me to carry it in a purse, and being able to
I think it’s time to pack this day in and go to bed. Or write something really bloody.
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Inch’Allah Dimache. This one’s about an Algerian woman and her children who rejoin her husband in France in the early 70s when the north Africans who’ve come over to work are finally allowed to bring thier families over. The language moves from Arabic to French and back again, and they do some great things with
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Netflix has this great thing where, in addition to your snail-mail movies, you can choose 14 hours of free movies a month to watch on your PC. They tend to be older movies and/or B movies, but there’s some decent stuff on there and a few classics. Since I’ve been working on my French a
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La Gringa is a hardworking woman in the SF/F publishing industry who’s been through a disastrous run of bad luck at various SF/F publishing houses and has been laid off and then laid off again for well over a year. Money’s been running out for ages, she also has various medical bills to pay, and
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