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Starting next month, I’ll be flying into NYC every other month to visit B, so I thought this quiz was appropriate: You scored as Inwood. Inwood is located on the northern tip of Manhattan. Inwood extends from 200th St (Dyckman St) to 220th Street. It is banked on all three sides by huge wild parks. […]

Another day, another dollar, another week of emotional and physical angst. Yay! Somebody get me some goddamn coffee.

For those uninterested in their uteruses, or those of their spouses, significiant others, sisters, and other loved ones, you can totally skip this. It’s about uteruses, afterall. I mean, sure, they’re attached to women, but… oh, that’s not important! Anyway, IUD update for anybody interested or considering doing the same thing: still getting some twinges

If you don’t feel like doing the pile of dishes in the sink, but can’t stand the idea of waking up in the morning to find that the ants that live under the stove are seething all over your dishes like tiny black maggots, spray a couple spitzes of 409 on your pile of dirty

Ah, Jon. Click “view clip” on the right hand side of the page.

Splices of George Bush clips slapped together to create a presidential rendition of “Imagine” and “A Walk on the Wild Side.” Amusing. (vis Simon)

“We were wondering if obesity would be more accepted today because of its increased prevalence and visibility,” said Janet Latner, an assistant professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Latner worked on a 2001 study of 415 New Jersey middle school students that indicates stigmatization of overweight children has grown 40 percent since

It took three clinicians and nearly an hour on the table to get me fitted with an IUD. The trouble was, I wasn’t menstrating (though I was supposed to be – last week’s breakthrough bleeding threw me off), and I’ve never had a child, so I’ve got a very small cervix, and you’ve gotta be

Had a whiskey and writing night last night. Very nice. Mostly productive. Felt good to be able to drink alcohol again, and better to be working on my book again. And for tonight: my favorite beer and some Giordano’s pizza. Yay. It’s been another long week.

The great thing about Friday morning commutes is that you can always find a seat on the train. It’s the little things.