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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My gawd. It’s serious secret boyfriend status now.
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It’s open enrollment time with the temp agency, and I went ahead and signed up for their shitty temp employee insurance that, of course, doesn’t cover “pre-existing conditions.” What it will cover (up to $7500 and only 50% of costs out-of-network ha ha haha ha) is half a broken leg, me getting punched in the
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One of the most entertaining things about starting any new job is how many different names I get called called during the course of any given week. I’ve been called “Carmen,” “Karsten,” “Candice,” and “Carmel.” I was identified in today’s meeting minutes as “Karen.” And, of course, most days I’m just, “The Writer.” Man, I
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I finally broke down yesterday and went to the pharmacy to pick up a couple more bottles of insulin. I’ve been using the ones I have now since, well, Spain, and a bottle of insulin is only actually “good” for about 30 days after you open it. Yes, I’ve been using my insulin two months
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