hey i'm pretty impressed with myself !

not only was my french, after years without any real practice, good enough to take a survey for an intercultural study about sexual behaviors and attitudes, it was good enough to write a coherent critique of their heterocentric definition of sexual intercourse!

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so, the stove that i thought was broken? turns out that my gas has been turned off ( Read more... )

there are two things in modern american society that are in need of demystification: sex and money.
money maybe even more than sex.
now you can even talk about sex at the dinner table.

i am very interested in the social significance of money. of the idea of working, selling your time and talents, your labor and your self, for a price. of the ( Read more... )

and of course, my landlord waits until the twenty-fourth to cash this month's rent check ( Read more... )

ok cupid "feminist" quiz

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has anyone ever done foot fetish parties?

cause i'm curious, and i'm thinking of replying to the ad.

just for the hell of it, you know?
i do have very nice feet.

obama opens exploratory committee for 2008 democratic nomination

for the first time, more women are living without a husband than with one

(wonder why nothing was said about gay couples. statistically some of those women must be living with gay partners.)

the other day i broke my coffee mug with the little shoe-clad feet on it, into a thousand pieces. it made me suprisingly sad. i broke it because i loved it so much that instead of putting it in the dishwasher when i was done with it, i left it out on the counter so i could use it again. perhaps we should take this as a lesson. or perhaps i should ( Read more... )

slate sez: why you're not protesting the iraq war.

also, the world once said no to war: feb 15 2003fun fact: bright eyes (i know, scoff scoff, but some of us were pretty into him in high school) apparently wrote the song "old soul song (for a new world order)" about the protest above. which was i believe my first ( Read more... )

oh man. i had a dream last nite that rachel had died. i dreamed the funeral and everything. this morning when i woke up, it took me a good ten minutes to figure out if that had happened or not.

rachel honey, i'm glad you're not dead. it pretty well freaked me out.