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Ooogg, what a morning. Feeling groggy and sleep-deprived. Also, need cofffeeeee and some water. Came home and cleaned the house for the apartment showing we had and the bunches that are today and spent the rest of the nigh hashing out some stuff with Jenn. B’s flying in tomorrow, so I figure I’ll wash the

Everywhere you go, you can buy skin whitening cream. I had one women come up to me and compliment me on my skin tone: “So beautiful, so white.” I shudder mightily.

Over the past decade, Iran’s best-selling fiction lists have become dominated by women, an unprecedented development abetted by recent upheavals in Iranian society. The number of women who have published novels has reached 370, said Hassan Mirabedini, a scholar of Iranian literature, whose findings recently appeared in the magazine Zanan (Women). That is 13 times

Why do I love this mindless game? Bah. I’m behind on the writing… must… do… something… useful.

OK, so, I’m a day late, but hey, happy belated b-day. Blogging is weird.

Your Slanguage Profile Prison Slang: 50% Southern Slang: 25% Aussie Slang: 0% British Slang: 0% Canadian Slang: 0% New England Slang: 0% Victorian Slang: 0% What Slanguage Do You Speak? Though, you know, looking at all these numbers, I wonder where the other 25% went? Bad quiz.

Tim Pratt, via Steph Burgis, asks writers to post the pet subject they enjoy putting into their work, and list what they’d never want to write about. Here’s some overarching themes and subjects in my fiction: 1. Civil war as subplot 2. Blood. Lots of it. And screams. Loud ones. Nearby. 3. Big, strong women