Does it really bug anybody else when men refer to women as “females”? Why do guys do this? I’d like to think it’s because they’re including “women and girls” in their description, so “females” is supposed to mean “all female-gendered persons in particular,” but I don’t go around saying, “I haven’t been with many males,” […]
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The Copywriter’s Handbook, by Robert Bly. As noted, I write just about everything at my job, from intranet news to forum Q&A to magazine blurbs to policy documents to press releases. And this book shows you how to write, well, just about everything. So it’s a good fit. I love the versatility of this little
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Really, if I want to meet anybody worth my while, I need to get a car. The great thing about being smack right between Cincinnati and Columbus is that civilization is, indeed, just there over the horizon. The drawback is, you don’t live there. All the good ones are an hour away, dammit. Well, there’s
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20 minutes on the elliptical on weekend mornings, after pancakes. Pancakes have been killing my sugar more than usual lately, but 20 easy-going minutes while channel surfing on Sat and Sunday was enough to keep me nice and stable (70-80) from noon to seven. Yum.
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OMG THAT WAS THE WORST MOVIE EVER IT WAS EVEN WORSE THAN THE SCORPION KING AND HALF THE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE HAD NO IDEA WHY ME AND STEPH AND THE OLD MAN WERE LAUGHING AND LAUGHING AND LAUGHING OMG THAT WAS FUCKING HORRIBLE FULL STOP OMG HAHA HAAHHA A AHAHAHA IM SO GLAD WE
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I remember being stunned and frustrated when I was diagnosed that not even the medical establishment knew what it was that really caused or triggered type 1 diabetes. I was irritated that nobody could tell me why I’d been sick for nearly a year before finally going under, and why I couldn’t get an explanation
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Woke up this morning and went into the kitchen to kick off the Saturday morning pancakes. To my surprise, I found my birthday present from the roomies on the kitchen table: $30 Chipotle gift certificate!!!!! OH MY CHIPOTLE MONEY!!!! OH YES. Now I’m heading out to the wilds of Middletown to go shooting with the
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Had a dream last night that I got a check in the mail for $32,000. Made me want to stay in bed a little longer so I could soak up the good from that alternate world. Until then, I’m out of fun money for the month. Dinner last night was sausages and cabbage. It’s a
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Some nights you need to be useful and read and write and be all self-empowering and stuff. And some nights you just need to spend a couple hours plyaingUT2K4 blowing the shit out of stuff. That was deeply satisfying.
Sometimes I write so well, I impress myself. heh heh Seriously, I never thought I’d be write advertising and marketing copy to save my life. And now that I’m doing it… well, my learning curve sometimes impresses even me. Just thought I’d share that.