I just finished re-reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground. I read it and loved it when it first came out, lured by a stunning review of the book by Michael Moorcock. This time around, as I re-read Veniss I started to think about what draws me back to particular books. I don’t re-read a lot of […]
There’s an interesting conversation going on at Jed’s about gender identity. He actually asks *how* you know you’re a girl/boy, but I’m also quite interested in when? When did you know?
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The Game/Quiz. If I ever publish GW, I want to make a flash game where you go around cutting off people’s heads and collect bugs that give you special powers and healing abilities. That would be kewl.
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Gazing at the enormous organs (of male ducks), she (Dr. Brennan) asked herself a question that apparently no one had asked before. “So what does the female look like?” she said. “Obviously you can’t have something like that without some place to put it in. You need a garage to park the car.” The lower
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And, suddenly, my phone is ringing off the hook with temp agencies submitting my resume to people. Is there some kind of quarterly budget thing happening where people are eager to hire all of a sudden, or what? Hey, I’ll take what I can get…
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My credit card company, for some inane reason, decided to up my credit limit (I mean, I’m unemployed! What better reason to up my limit!). So I took the opportunity to stock up on my meds, since as soon as I can’t make that CC payment, they’re going to cut me off. This cost me:
Q: What would you say is your strongest quality?A: My ability to bullshit on the fly Q: What would you say is your biggest weakness?A: This hole in my foot. Q: What methods would you use to priortize tasks?A: I would sort them by color and shoot them. Q: Do you have any questions for
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So, I went in to see the podiatrist yesterday to have this callous on my toe checked out. I first noticed it last year just before I went into the hospital, and since then, I’ve been frantically looking up horrific pictures of diabetic foot ulcers, worrying that this was going to turn into something gangrenous
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That it is OK to ask for help. But, still hard.
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