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giving up on good manners
I have decided to take a more, uh, pro-active approach to unwanted commentary from strangers. Which I guess was well timed, because despite sleeping from noon to nine today, I still seemed to have a day filled with odd remarks. After all, if random people are going to annoy me with their unsolicited intrusions into my life, I should at least have ( Read more... ) -
chaste fertility! all the joys of pregnancy, none of the bother of sex!
The GU Right to Life club is having a fair or a conference or something this weekend. One of the speakers is delivering a presentation entitled "Undergirding Chastity with Experiential Learning of One's Own Fertility." I am so tempted to go because I have no earthly idea what is meant by that. I mean, personally, I'd like to avoid experiential ( Read more... ) -
a book review of sorts
The following things are present in China Miéville's novel The Scar, leading me to believe that it is a book constructed with the sole purpose of making me as happy as possible:- pirates
- pirate city
- vampires
- sea monsters
- linguistic geekery
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brief note
While I don't exactly mind people I went to high school reading this, I do find it odd to discover that they not only read it with interest, but then go scurry off to tell other former classmates of mine the shocking! simply shocking! things they have learned. "Did you know she's gay? I guess she's like a lesbian or something." While I am ( Read more... ) -
SOME PEOPLE SHOULD JUST NOT GET TO GO OUT AMONG PEOPLE
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So. The overly earnest, completely filthy, and generally obnoxious young man who sat beside me on the bus yesterday (carrying an enormous drum, wearing a tie-dyed shirt with the message "Jesus saves! We all bleed RED!!!" magic-markered on it, and sweating profusely), asked me whether I was "heterosexual or homosexual" after giving a long speech ( Read more... ) -
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a) I am leaving my crappy retail book-mongering job filled with lecherous co-workers and stupid dresscodes for a happy and better paying programming job. Yay! My new boss encourages me to, when asked what I do, simply skip the technical bits and end with "I cure cancer!" Which isn't strictly accurate, as I actually facilitate the sharing of ( Read more... ) -
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Barbara Boxer wrote a novel and nobody told me? This is exactly the kind of thing you should be telling me about so I can laugh forever.* Even if, umm, at first glance it reminds me of that movie (which I haven't seen) that Vin Diesel wrote, directed, and starred in about how damn hard it is for people like him to get by in Hollywood. That is, ( Read more... ) -
It is a problem with me!
Despite being a foul-mouthed, sarcastic little wench, I do have very strong ideas about how people ought to behave. I am not, nor do I read the works of, Judith Martin, so I tend to think that these ideas spring from basic, common-sense notions about being a decent, thinking human being. However, the frequency and flagrancy with which people ( Read more... )