I like this contrast.

Hello Andrea you ideal job is a Animal Therapist

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Having just promised you all I'd get off my soapbox, I must state briefly that the front page of the Times today made me want to spit. Of course Plan B only makes sense if it costs $35 and requires you to live near a planned parenthood or have access to a doctor who doesn't know your parents. And I can't figure out, for the life of me, why the ( Read more... )

I'm realizing that last entry was a bit of an overreaction. Nobody's insulted me or given me a hard time. I guess I'm kind of oversensitive to being prejudged or dismissed by people -- it's kind of my biggest peeve -- and I reacted strongly. (Earlier, when Ed and I were walking into Kline, I asked him if I could make a career out of reacting ( Read more... )

This was born as a response to Alissa's post earlier today, but I mean it for everyone. I'm sorry if it comes across as harsh, but this is something I find really upsetting, especially lately. I ask those who know me to read it through ( Read more... )

A russian joke from Wikipedia ( Read more... )

Several things realized today ( Read more... )

LJ Interests meme results

1. bird by bird:
   A fantastic book about writing fiction by Anne Lamott. It's human and comforting. If Annie Dillard is my writing priest, Anne Lamott is my writing mother.
2. dogs:
   A direct quote of myself, yesterday, from an otherwise mild conversation: "Some motherfucker tries to hurt my dog, I'll fucking crush his skull"
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Today made me stupider.

If i was a Bodily Excretment i would be:


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"Divorcing sex-scene [writing] technique from the larger challenges of writing good fiction is as useless as divorcing sexual technique from the challenge of loving someone."
-- Jonathan Franzen