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I suppose it's largely a function of my gender identity thing, but. There are not a whole lot of things in the world that get me as wound up and mad as "the difference between men and women" type talk ( Read more... ) -
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I've been doing some soul-searching regarding my art, and my chronic lack of motivation, and I'm thinking that maybe it would help to just fill requests for a while. Rules will be mostly like before, except with no set deadline for when I stop taking requests ( Read more... ) -
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memrise.com has devoured my life. Just... infinite free languages. I can grind away at vocab lists all night. And then they show me how much other people are doing to make me all competitive and crazy, and it is super effective! Critical hit ( Read more... ) -
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So, New Years resolutions. Mine is always to check my email more regularly, and this year we're going for it again. (Actually that is a secondary resolution, and my first one no more gossiping, but anyway ( Read more... ) -
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There's this pretty little Catholic church literally one street from where I live right now, and I've kind of wanted to go look at if for months but never remembered to do it when I had time. So today I looked up their Christmas Eve services and went to the 9:00 and--it was very pretty, but also confusing in the way that Catholic services have ( Read more... ) -
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I hate having to look up recipes online instead of just using the cookbook (and various assorted ancient print-outs that live in said cookbook) in my mom's kitchen. Why are there recipes for spritz cookies that don't have almond extract in them, how is that even the same thing? And we never used powdered sugar, we couldn't have because we never ( Read more... ) -
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It took me an annoying amount of trouble to find cookie sheets that didn't have a half-inch rim on all sides, and I kind of felt neurotic for insisting on that detail. Why does it matter? Because my MOM'S didn't have the rim! And clearly the proper form of all kitchen utensils is whatever your mom had. And as an aside, the Good Will here is ( Read more... ) -
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Drawing. Drawing every day, even if it's only five-minute garbage doodles of cups in the lunchroom at work. That's supposed to help, right? Everyone says so.
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UGH DORITOS. I need like a 12 step program or something, because I seriously have a problem. I don't even want to think about how often they end up being breakfast or dinner, it's so gross and it makes my stomach gross but I KEEP DOING IT. Literally anything would be better, cake for breakfast is better, why do I keep buying these things? -
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And I know what happened, really. I started thinking too much about the product, and I lost the process. But I don't know how to untangle this knot, that the product has become the motivation, but the product is never satisfying. Every idea I come up with to re-charge myself is oriented around how to get a better product, so it inevitably fails ( Read more... )