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For those interested, I will be guestblogging over at World Fantasy Award Winning author Jeff VanderMeer’s place starting Monday. I’m going to try and be very polite. We’ll see how long that lasts…

As somebody who identifies as being “Mostly Straight,” I’ve still had my fair share of “girl crushes,” so I was interested to read this piece in The NY Times about the apparent “resurgence” of women feeling free to express infatuation with one another. Oh, did I mention it’s purely infatuation, not attraction? Not at all.

Had myself wound pretty tight the last couple of days. Getting into the new house routine has been a little stressful, and getting used to my much smaller room has been a lesson in patience. There’s a trick to getting around the room without banging into bookshelves and overturning the fan that involves a lot

Wow. Pfizer, maker of the Viagra, has patented a pill for “premature climax.” No, no, not for men – For women. Has anybody ever had a “problem” with this? I mean, come once, you can just come again, you know? The “recovery” period for most women really isn’t that long. And what’s wrong with having

I take far too much delight in Pirate paraphenalia. (via pharyngula)

And yet, women office accountants don’t often make much more than I do. But looking at some of this spreadsheet bullshit that our now twice-fired accountant used to do, I’m wondering why the hell women accountants don’t get paid more. I wonder how much better it used to pay when more men did it? I

Kudos to Heather for pointing me toward this site that provides a bunch of info for women who are interested in/new to weight training. Good info on weight, sets, reps, nutrition, and tips for training before and after pregnancy (and for those interested: working out actually tends to *decrease* the discomfort of monthly bleeding and

Sitting around the house, eating sushi and drinking beer, reading the second-to-last book of Zelazny’s Amber series (one of the few old-school SF authors who actually writes women-as-people) at my new digs (pictures coming soon) in the designated reading room full of bookshelves… yea, life is good. Overdid it a little at the gym. I

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And they are good. It really is a binge eating issue. I’ve tried to just eat one of something, you know, moderation, when it comes to bread products, but I just can’t. I either have to do what I’m doing, which is “no bread products!” and then have a cheat day once every couple weeks