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Going out to lunch with the guys is always a fun affair. It doesn’t happen often, as I’m a woman and a glorified admin., but when it does, I have a good time. Last week I went out with Yellow, Blaine, Dee and Jose (one of the architects). We went out to this italian deli […]

Had a good class last night. It was the second “special class” of the month, that is, our usual scheduled programming was replaced by Muay Thai. It was fun, and I had a great partner. She was a frickin’ Amazon (5’10 about 190lbs), and after assuring me I wasn’t going to hurt her, I pumped

Hugo’s got an interesting discussion going over at his blog about men’s expectations of women’s compulsorary smiling, cheerfulness, when men walk around the room. Check it out. Here’s my response: I’d agree that, as a woman, you’re likely going to measure your smiling/friendliness level depending on how comfortable you feel in a given location (and

On lazy Sundays, I’ll often browse through my sitetracker and amuse myself by looking at all the search strings that brought confused users into my blog this week (in addition to the regulars and random “next blog” browsers): My Darklight post has brought in a few “The Celestine Prophecy was a true book!” types with:

I had a long conversation yesterday with my Republican Atheist brother (now there’s a pairing I bet you don’t see much) about healthcare, welfare, and Michael Moore. Needless to say, it was a really interesting discussion. My brother’s white, good-looking, and comes from an upper-middle class family. He’s never had to worry about healthcare or

It’s still a sad day when most people aren’t voting *for* the democratic candidate: they’re voting *against* the President (I include myself in this category). And, of course, I’m pretty stuck on this one: one wants to limit women’s health choices. One believes they should have choices. I’m pretty stuck on that issue alone. Not

Today’s a writing day. Cleaned up and sent out some stories that have been sitting, bumping up my stories-out count from 3 to 6 (paltry, I know – my highest count was 21 stories out, and that was the year I sold three stories. A good example of the Law of Averages). I have several

Picked up another of the usual sort of rejects from Datlow for one of my shorts, the WMD story. She said there’s not “enough to the story” which I can’t complain about. There’s not. But I like the story anyway. I’ve been wondering if there’s a form reject for SciFiction (cause I’ve never seen it),

I figured they were dumping the talent competitions for the Miss USA beauty pageant because, really, it was always about skin, and nobody gave a damn about world peace. Donald Trump said as much about the jury picks and how so many “reall beautiful” women were “passed over” by “incompetent judges” who, I presume, weighed

I had no idea this was a real organization. Who’da thought? They endorse Kerry, by the way.