For some reason, it's a lot more awkward to go yell and my neighbors for playing loud music in the middle of the night (which they do every single night) now that I'm on friendly terms with them than it was back when they were just 'those assholes downstairs".

Damn courtesy.

In other news, I've booked a hotel room for Le Honeymoon. We're going to ( Read more... )

The insanity just never stops, does it?

Just in--Australians are now a whopping 1% fatter than Americans. In order to combat this public health crisis, 'experts' are suggesting measures like refusing surgery on the basis of weight.

Let's unpack this statement a little, shall we? Obesity, according to experts, is a crisis. Why is it a crisis? Because ( Read more... )

Random things that are bugging me right now:

1. Smoking. I'm not a heavy smoker. I go through about a pack a week, maybe less. I'm not addicted to the nicotine, and I know this because I can go for weeks without smoking without any kind of withdrawal. It drives Rick up a wall, it makes it hard for me to breathe, and it costs a lot of money. So WHY ( Read more... )

The funny thing about my job is that as long as I don't particularly think about it, I kind of like it. The pay is shit, but I don't have a lot of expenses. It's hard work, but I'm young and healthy. The days go by quickly, the people I work with are generally cool, and this is the first job I've had where I actually like the management staff. And ( Read more... )

I just read Neil Gaimon's The Problem of Susan. What a spiteful little story.

The thing is, I like Neil Gaimon's writing--or I used to. It's always disappointing to discover a writer one likes indulging in such a small-minded and ugly bit of--I don't think you could really call it fanfiction, but I'll use that word for lack of a better one. I mean, ( Read more... )

C.S. Lewis is the only writer I've ever encountered who makes Christianity make sense.

It is an odd truth that very few of the people I admire have a high opinion of me.

This probably says something about me as a person, actually.

The really annoying thing about people who give up bad habits is that they have a tendency to try and get everyone else to do the same. I like my bad habits. And as they aren't currently ruining my life and are making me happy, I think I'm entitled to them ( Read more... )

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 I like insults.

It probably doesn't come as any particular surprise to anyone here that I'm not a terribly polite person. I don't, as a general rule, make any effort to be politically correct or well-mannered, and I have the (lack of a) social life to prove it. I'm fairly thick-skinned about insults, and I generally expect other people to be as ( Read more... )