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Yea, right. On the contrary, men at Fortune 100 companies commonly complain that due to diversity goals, women actually have an unfair advantage. “Every company I’ve worked at goes out of its way to hire or promote women to senior level positions,” says an upper-middle manager at a major food company. He adds with a […]

HONOLULU — A state lawmaker has suggested Hawaii’s public schoolteachers be forced to weigh in as part of the fight against obesity in students, KITV in Honolulu reported. Because teaching kids it’s OK to discriminate is cool. This gets into all those tricky arguments about who decides what “fat” is, and what about medical conditions

As mentioned earlier, I heard back from the Agent about my fantasy novel, The Dragon’s Wall. She’s incredibly enthusiastic about the whole project, thinks it’ll make a great series, but thinks it needs a total overhaul. Now, that might sound really great, but I had to hide in my room for two days getting over

Jenn got my computer hooked up to her old PC monitor, so I now have a working computer. I was starting to go a little nuts with the other half-baked solution I came up with. I haven’t even finished paying this little number off, and the LCD screen up and died on me. This monitor’s

Writing like a mad woman. I’ve got that damn God’s War draft to finish, and I’m going to look over some of those rewrite suggestions for the fantasy saga that the Agent gave me, and see if it’s salvageable. If I can get that damn fantasy saga right, well, it’s a great investment. It’s seven

Ah, the pissing gallery: Straw feminists (I am not a real feminist and I cater to men’s opinions of me) Ide’s Place (I’m just a reactionary idiot) It always makes me sad when I upset long-term posters I respect, like Ide Cyan, and likely many more who haven’t been vocal about how upset they are

Still sick, but working stuff out. I think the combination of house stress, writing stress, sickness stress, a bad reaction to some DayQuil that made me feel like I was in an aquarium, and the fact that really, truly, while being this sick I really, truly, shouldn’t be at work just got to me. I

I’m sicker than a dog (persistent, full-body, hacking cough, runny nose, headache, trouble sleeping), it looks like I’ve started running a fever, just got back an email reject from the Agent about the book (to be fair, it was very nice, and another request for a revision rather than a total reject), I am having

If you choose to write a writing contract piece on the origin of hamburgers, you must be prepared to spend the rest of the day craving hamburgers.

Sicker than a dog. Doing lots of novel writing. Pausing to do some writing contract work that’s due Friday. My computer is still dead. I am craving some chicken noodle soup. Ug ug