Got back home to Chicago after reasonable airport delays and promptly fell into bed. I caught my mom’s cold, and it’s a crappy one. Had a great time spending Christmas at the Oregon Coast, at the Goonie beach. It was incredibly relaxing, which is just want I needed. I was pretty burned out on everything. […]
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I’m flying into Portland tonight for a holiday with the folks in WA. Good wishes to all.
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Thus Collins elegantly demonstrates the power of public perception in determining whether or not we manage to be happy in love. If, at the start of a century when women allegedly have it all, everyone is having the same arguments that were going round when women did not even have the vote, then progress is
My appreciation for Joanna Russ’s story, “When it Changed” is up. Check it out.
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My laptop has died. That’s the third computer I’ve killed in the last 5 years. I really need to start buying those stupid fucking warranties. I’m getting ultra screwed.
The media seem to be running with a recurring theme around this movie: (Brokeback Mountain) the “bravery” of the actors playing the roles, the “courage” it took them to do it, and the “speculation” about whether America is ready for a “gay cowboy movie.” Certainly not a position a liberal would take, so it befuddles
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I’m really happy Christmas is coming up and I’ve got a week off work (sort of. I’m working remotely for an hour every weekday morning so I can run our daily reports. Partly because I’m too lazy to teach someone else to do it and partly because I don’t have the PTO hours to take
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Mr. Grande Latte Enema has given all the admins a bottle of wine for the holidays. When I saw the bottle on my desk, I had a surge of affection because I thought it was from Blaine or Yellow, you know, the guys I actually know and work with. Instead, it was the new mucky-muck
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Just in time for Christmas, I got back word today that my story, “Wonder Maul Doll” has been accepted for the war anthology “From the Trenches,” to be published next year. I am really, really happy about this.
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1) The first time I had sex was in a bookstore 2) The first best friend I ever had was a kindergardener who sat in front of our first grade class and read us a fourth-grade level book. He read all the time during class, and our friendship was based on the books we recommended
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