I have realized, after reading this month's Apex magazine, that short fiction lends itself really well to the fact that I have very little time to read books right now. Please provide me your favorite sources of short fiction (speculative fiction preferred)?

(Cross posted from my blog; you can see the post here if you like.)

My body has been doing a lot of different things lately, and while I don't have anything that I would call coherent to say about them, this seems like as good a time as any to take stock.

Nutrition

Not eating gluten continues to treat me well. However, it seems like I'm getting ( Read more... )

It's been really far, far too long since I posted anything here. Sorry about that; I am on 4 (four!) forms of social media right now, and I'm just not posting much that's long form. I'd like to manage to get more stuff onto LJ, but I haven't quite figured out how to without spamming the hell out of everyone with all my tiny updates ( Read more... )

I've been struggling to talk about mixed feelings about losing weight (again) and I finally managed to put them into something resembling coherent words.

http://intentionalfemme.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/meta-feelings/

I haven't been posting weight lifting updates here regularly, because spam, but I was pretty pleased with today's numbers, so I thought I'd share ( Read more... )

I love riding my bike to work. I do ( Read more... )

Re: Unintentional weight loss

The first rule of this post is: don't compliment me on weight loss.

http://intentionalfemme.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/intentional-diet-changes-unintentional-weight-loss/

Ok, before I get too far from it, con report!

We got into town on Thursday, which was very nice, because we had all morning Friday to relax, and we also got to have a lovely conversation over dinner & drinks with Daniel and Wendy, who probably have LJ names but I don't know them.

The theme of the con this year was Law and Order, for reference.

( Read more... )

Blog post, trigger warning for talk of past anorexia.

"When you are anorexic, you and your body are not just enemies. Your body is your nemesis. Your body is the only thing you cannot quite conquer.

To be working with my body, to finally know what that really feels like? It’s astounding. It’s a revelation." Leave a comment  7 

After one month of being gluten-free, and then testing gluten again for the past couple of days, I've come to the following conclusions:
- Being gluten-free makes me feel pretty great in terms of managing energy-levels and eating nutritious foods. I crave sweets less & don't get so hungry in the middle of the day.
- Eating little bits of gluten doesn ( Read more... )