Okay! In today's episode of The Natural World Is Not What They Told You- snowflakes! The snowflakes near where you live probably look lik diamond-studded  doilies. Around here, they look like chunks of ice.

Right! I've managed to read your comments, but not to reply. So I will just thank you all ( Read more... )

Hello, darlings. I'm playing with Dragon 10, which seems to be much better than Dragon nine. Today's theme is-inching our way onto the web ( Read more... )

Hi gang ( Read more... )

All this time I have been peacefully identifying as Generation X. But no. It's official. We are Gen Y, my contemporary blossoms; American Demographics says so. Brush off your baby-dolls and smile.

Well. I am becoming decrepit, children. I have a phlegmy cough, a bad attitude, and only one hand that works ( Read more... )

So. About 20 minutes ago, I got a call from the receptionist, who hung up on me. I wondered about this, vaguely, and--I was about to write "went back to work" but "went back to accidentally reading Confederacy of Dunces on Google Books" would, regrettably, be more accurate ( Read more... )

(though, for the record, it ain't my personal manifesto. )

"Another problem is the idea you may have that sexual orientation is something static that cannot change. For this reason, you picture the bisexual sitting in front of a mirror getting ready to go out and saying to him/herself, "What do you think--the gay hat, or the straight hat, this evening?" and you think to yourself, "That's not right. You ( Read more... )

Well, darlings. I'm in London. And I've just remembered that actually I generally get humiliated in London, so this time I'm going to behave myself. Specifically, I'm going to behave myself like an American, not a baffled hybrid ( Read more... )