“I have something to say about the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld the ban on late-term abortions, whether or not the pregnancy endangers the woman’s life. I’m a pragmatic contextual ethicist with a spiritual sensibility, and I cannot be silent. I cannot pretend that I don’t understand the next step in this game. If […]
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1) It really is better if I get up between 5-7am instead of 10-11 am. My numbers just look better when I get an early jump start on the day. I’ll test around 90-100 between 5-7, but by 10-11, my sugar’s already risen cause of the whole dawn phenomenon, and I’ll come out at 130-160(!).
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“The program schedule for WisCon 31 will go live on April 30, 2007.” So, um, where is it?
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I just received a check in the mail for $502 from my old employer. Apparently, they’ve just now gotten around to re-purchasing the company stock that I had with them. Damn, I get by by the skin of my teeth… OK, technically I owe $110 of this to my endocrinologist back in Chicago and $200
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“Transgender Canadians are coming out at younger ages than ever before. Support groups for transgender teens report growing memberships, and are sprouting up beyond the major cities in areas such as Kitchener, Ont., and the Niagara region. One by one, school boards are amending their human rights policies to include gender identity… In recent years,
“The trouble with manhood, American-style, is that it is maintained at the expense of every man’s feminine side — the frantically repressed Inner Wussy — and the demonization of the feminine and the gay wherever we see them.“ I do love that even in an article about how we demonize the feminine, the feminine is
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Temp work until 12:30 today, followed by one interview at same place I’d been temping that’s looking for somebody to assist one of the investment brokers. Bike ride home, lunch, bus ride downtown for second interview for a receptionist/project assistant position that’s got a commute out to fucking Springboro and a 7:30 am start time.
“Occupation” is turning out to be one of those stories that, like “Genderbending,” I didn’t realize anybody actually liked, read, or cared about until a year after it was published. Now Occupation’s on a “notable stories of 2006” list and reprinted in a Year’s Best SF. And, to be honest, of the three stories I
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