Serenity… an expedition


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conversation interrupted

The Atlantic.com has made a big mistake, in my opinion. They’ve decided to remove all personality and reader hooks from their blogger pages (except for Andrew Sullivan’s)and make them almost unreadable. I guess to ensure that casual passersby keep on… well, passing by. It’s not clear to me why they would want to do this.
I [...]

Friday, February 26th

I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging…

If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.  ~Rita Rudner

Okay, so maybe that’s not so inspirational, but it is pretty funny! Um, unless  you are a morning jogger, I guess.  Really, though, I am only truly annoyed by the ones jogging along with big, [...]

Monday, February 15th

ah, privileged white feminism, how i’ve missed thee

Okay, not really.

So, I decided to start dipping my toes back into poliblogging – very reluctantly, which is why there is next to nothing on here to reflect that decision – and part of that is also beginning to visit some of the bigger white feminist sites again as, of course, for me as [...]

Friday, February 5th

i need dayquil. or nightquil. or a sledgehammer

I have a cold or the flu or something. This is not, in the balance of things, an important issue, but, well… it certainly affects everything *I* do. Especially since I’ve had a cold, off and on, all winter and it’s really becoming annoying. I’m usually one of those insufferable people who always manages to [...]

Tuesday, February 2nd