Thing 1:

So, the jelly thing turned out awesome (I've been eating English muffins with homemade jelly every morning at work and not only does this mean I have a cheap breakfast, I am filled with self-satisfaction with every bite) and I have been entertaining other food preservation thoughts (pickles, y'all, pickles). But then
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So, here’s the thing. I really do take things like my citizenship and civic duty seriously. It is important to me to be active and informed in my local and larger-scale governmental processes like elections, for example (sometimes I fall down on this but, hey, we don’t have to be perfect). I am a FAN of jury duty and I may laughingly complain about ( Read more... )

I'm not comfortable, as a cisgendered woman, telling people who question what it means to be a man (and that - as I hoped to make explicit yesterday and probably didn't - is in no way limited to cisgendered men) that they are asking meaningless questions. It may be meaningless for me - or, really, it may not be. Because if we can get to a place ( Read more... )

And another thing.

So, a little while ago, an online friend posted about how, even as a father and home-owner, and married person, he doesn’t feel like a man. He was kind of nostalgic for the rituals of manhood, some ideal of manliness that would give a security of identity. And while many people sympathized, my problem (and the problem many other ( Read more... )

I signed back up for Orlando Organics (www.orlandoorganics.com). We're eating out all the time and getting to the grocery store is a damn hassle and just... Ugh ( Read more... )

So, yesterday
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I've seen it going around and thought it might stir up a little conversation here as well.

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So here's the thing: the traditional novel publishing industry is a damn mess. It's increasingly difficult to break into because it's a speculative industry and it's so expensive that no one wants to take a risk. There are a lot of copy cat plots - rashes of vampire novels when there's a hit vampire novel, for example ( Read more... )

Seems like a large chunk of my LJ friends list is complaining about the heat. I kind of love it when it's hot hot hot - though some of the recent heat index of 110 bs is a bit much even for me. Still, I know not everyone is as "AH WARM" about things as I am and, in fact, many people find it deeply, horribly awful ( Read more... )