this wedding, okay? is ridiculous ( Read more... )

I'm not on here much these days (January has been a bit rough) but I was reading an excellent post by blue milk (an excellent feminist mothering blog) and she was briefly discussing how her young daughter was, perhaps, drifting away from a friend who had precociously developed an interest in teen girl culture. At 7, not giving a fuck about your ( Read more... )

It's been a weird week. Three interviews, with my nervousness and stuttering getting progressively worse at each one (isn't that backward?). A strange, weather-related apathy that has me blasting Avril Lavigne's new single and seriously contemplating the Olsen twins empire of awesome fashion ( Read more... )

I seem to be having a spot of trouble with the unwedding details in June, but have resolutely decided to suck it up and fix my mistake before another week is out. One of these days the damn event is just going to be *over* and I will have a *job* and I can stop fretting. As it is, I find myself decidedly apathetic about the new round of dishes in ( Read more... )

I finally decided to brave the sourdough starter and *use* it today. it was like staring at my 6th grade science project (bread mold) but with less technicolor yawn. Having concluded that I was not going to understand the Joy of Cooking's seemingly impenetrable recipe directions for "Rustic Sourdough", I turned to my mother's recent gift-- a "Farm ( Read more... )

"John puts the anger into it, makes what had sounded like mathematics in Rodney’s head into furious, crashing downward runs that sound like punching a wall again and again, and suddenly Rodney’s back in that dark, stuffy room with all the windows covered up over the three months after his breakdown, writing and writing as if he could find the ( Read more... )

I stumbled over a blog post by somebody I know and it was full of angst. I get that. The job market is beyond horrible. Our entire lives were a lie. We had the misfortune to graduate at a turbulent time in history. Yes. But I took umbrage with some prattle from her co-workers.

"I, along with my whole generation got a severe tongue-lashing about our ( Read more... )

Have been experimenting with cooking, mostly successful. I find myself pants at pie crusts (clearly I take after Mum) and surprisingly bang up at soups and stocks. Success has been found in the Joy of Cooking's Pot-au-Feu, cheese soup, and veggie stock (which was promptly used in the Pot-au-Feu actually ( Read more... )

So after giving myself hysterics and a stress headache while watching a particularly annoying episode of Jeeves & Wooster yesterday, I discovered that I don't actually want to plan my wedding. It gives me hives. So, come Sunday I'll be asking Best Beloved's wedding-planner Aunt if she'd mind doing all the heavy lifting as sort of a wedding gift. ( Read more... )

Some days I despair at how bitter I am at the library profession.