Category: fluff
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Being An Adult
My favorite thing about being an adult — about having a nice home to live in and an amazing-and-wonderful-and-often-super-difficult job and a loving/working marriage and debt that I pay on time — is that I get to self-determine what my grown-up life looks like. Being able to choose to do (and yes, even to buy) silly shit without remorse or self-recrimination is my greatest reward for being…
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In Which I Get Fangirly
The most recent episode of The Big Bang Theory is a perfect example of what I hate and love about the show. Sheldon’s “talking to” Alex? Terrible. Not just terrible in what was said (which it was) but also out of character. Sheldon isn’t good at reading emotions or dating, but he isn’t cruel. Sheldon not asking his “Council of Ladies” what to say to Alex? After he’d…
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Things to Read
If you can (not allergic to eggs etc) get your flu shot. Yes, really. The Kindle edition of A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master” by Rachel Held Evans is $1.99 right now. I enjoyed it, and not just for the debunking of the “Wives are required by God to appear…
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Q&A, or, More Fun With Search Terms
I’m bored, so I’m going to treat some of the search terms for this blog as questions. I may have gotten a touch silly on these. Void where prohibited by law. why don’t really fat people have diabetes The pancreas wants what the pancreas wants. earrings around 400 pounds OUCH! making kraft dinner from scratch If it’s from scratch, it’s not really Kraft Dinner, is it? inexpensive women’s…
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Music Monday
I spent the weekend volunteering at a craft fair. Lots of walking, lots of uncomfortable seating, lots of lifting. Physically I’m sore, but I think it was good to have the break from reality that provided. The craft fair also had some local bands performing during the day. One mentioned a filk of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” that I really like. Lyrically it’s better than the original and set during The…
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Semi-Random Friday Fluff
New office currently is just mine! I’m sure that will change but I am enjoying it now. Also! Allergies / asthma better now that I’m not sharing an office with a dog. Changed my work computer to a giftmas theme. Archie McPhee has a giftmas store. Googly eyes Christmas tree! Emergency Santa kit! Inflatable window! JP Patches action figure! So far this year, giftmas gifts to myself include…
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Silly Moment
“Time of the month or sneeze guard?” — The man of the house, as I added a few pads to my bag before work.
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X Things Make A Post
Yes, I voted. (Yes, hopefully the USians will stop talking about elections soon!) I spent the weekend at a sci-fi con. I was not the only too-big-for-size-24 in the hotel, which is nice. Serious body variation FTW :) Michelle at The Fat Nutritionist wrote about “food addiction”. (The quotes probably give away my opinion.) ThisIsThinPrivilege.tumblr.com/ is an interesting ongoing conversation about degrees of size privilege A pharmacist’s flu…
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Things to Read
From Paul Campos discusses the failure of a “sophisticated and expensive attempt” to validate the hypothesis that “significant long-term weight loss improves health outcomes”: It will probably come as a surprise to most readers to learn that this hypothesis remains almost completely unconfirmed by the medical literature – in part because we simply don’t know how to produce significant long-term weight loss in a statistically significant group…
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Working For The Weekend
During dinner a friend pointed out that this weekend will be WorldCon, DragonCon, and PAX. Toss in the Republican National Convention and my Twitter may EXPLODE….!! Yes, it is indeed leading up to the American three-day weekend known as Labor Day. I will spend a couple nights in the mountains. What are your plans, if any?
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God Should Look At Magazines to Know What People Should Look Like
Yes, it’s funny. It also shows the disconnect between what we expect people to look like. We expect people to look like what we’re used to seeing — and if we mostly see other people in magazines or on TV or in movies, that’s what we expect people to look like. And when the movie’s over, we are surprised that reality hasn’t conformed to our fantasies.…
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Game of Thrones Season 2 Leaked
If you are a Game of Thrones fan it may interest you to know that season 2 has been leaked in great detail. According to Tor.com “[n]otorious author George R. R. Martin has immediately taken credit for the leaked information becoming public.” Tor also quotes “an unnamed HBO exec” as saying “Reading is for people who want to be confused. We never do it. Why should our viewers?” Ah, April…
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Happy Solstice
I’m in North America – Seattle, specifically. We currently get 8 hours of sun a day, and will for the next few weeks — but slowly we’ll start getting more. This is The Christians & The Pagans, by Dar Williams.
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