May 2008

Questions and Answers

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Interesting day. Lots of questions. Not a lot of answers. Maybe you have some answers?

How can I stop hating my body? – I’ve answered this a lot in my lifetime, even though I don’t really have an answer.

Here’s an answer to the age old question, “how do I get more traffic to my blog?” Leave a lot of comments.

Where is YOUR sex tape? (let the google searchers come. hah.)

Isn’t this what organized sports should be like every day?

What was John McCain thinking? About himself?

What did you learn from your mother? I’m considering an anti-mother advice post – just for fun. Wonder what my mother would say to that? I’m sure she’ll be along to tell me, won’t she?

Have you apologized to yourself? And did you accept your own apology?

Look at all of the questions.

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Duma Key

1 Comment / 2008, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Sci Fi and Fantasy /

I finally finished Duma Key, it feels like it took forever but really it was only a week with a lot of days that included almost NO reading time.

Stephen King writes a long ass novel. I’m glad it was good. I really hate long books that end up being not worth reading.

Loved the characters and the idea – the painting, fantastic. It did feel odd to read a King novel set in Florida, that was pretty odd. It also felt like Joe Hill could have written this… is it possible King read his son’s book and thought, I can do something like that….?

Now, I need to call my father to discuss the book since he’s the one who told me there was a new King novel in the first place.

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Reading and enjoying

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Oops, almost forgot that I said I was going to do this and then, when I sat down to do it I couldn’t remember what I’d enjoyed reading today. Weird. Onward.

Legitimzing romance and literary reviews, interesting. I don’t really want romance legitimized. I like it the way it is. I’d rather people embrace romance and embrace pulp and embrace trash for what they are. Wouldn’t you?

Homo and Skim and a car with an alarm problem. I’d love to figure out why TW’s car alarmed a couple of weeks ago – when it doesn’t have an alarm system.

Easing the pain of pregnancy announcements – OK, I can live with that but I want to know why women, including infertile women, always ask you “how long have you been trying?” And if we aren’t supposed to talk about getting pregnant right off the bat, then what should we reply to that very direct, and indelicate, question?

Zoe and 6 degrees of separation in which I feel like a real live lesbian blogger for like the very first time – but not until Zoe pointed it out to me in comments. Wow.

Great post from Suzanne, whose parents live very close to our new house in Glenview – yea!, about Yom Hashoah and female guilt.

Uh oh, I hate it when I run out of eye of newt and this happens (click through to the full post after you hit my link.

What are YOU reading today?

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Random tagging

1 Comment / Daily Dose, Day to Day, Memes and Quizzes, Personality /

So. Vered. I like that chick. Even if she DID tag me for a meme… the 3 random things meme when radomness is something I struggle with. I won’t hold that against her. She’s new. She hasn’t seen me question the very existence of random.

Here’s my shot at it…

1) I’m really angry right now with my former workplace. I’ve been annoyed about one particular issue since 2001 and I just read something that turned my annoyance to anger. Lately, I’ve been talking about blogging my personal branding rant – this thing I’m angry about is related to that post I haven’t written. Or maybe the post I haven’t written is related to what I’m angry about? Whatever. Chicken/egg – Egg/Chicken, it’s all the same thing. But, instead of blogging while I’m angry, I’m sitting on my hands – again. How long will I be able to sit? On my hands?

2) I just ordered vegetable fried rice and fried wontons for dinner. (Why does wordpress think wontons is is misspelled?) I had frozen eggrolls for lunch. It’s that kind of week around here. Frozen. Whatever’s handy. Spend $50 to have food delivered. I hate those kinds of weeks but they are better than not eating at all – which is my ultimate preference.

3) I’m looking forward to watching Survivor tonight. We watched it last week from the hotel but it feels like we didn’t watch it – because we weren’t in our space. That’s weird, isn’t it? I’m like that, I like my house – not the house, just you know, my personal living environment and my boring everyday life and routine.

Now, about that tagging five people thing… errr… who would I tag that hasn’t already been tagged? Since TW tagged Vered and then Vered tagged me – that six degrees of separation thingy is at work and I’m either going to have to re-tag someone who’s been tagged, tag someone who does NOT do memes, or tag some poor new to BlogHer person who will think I’m insane for tagging them out of the blue.

So, rather than risk scaring off the new BlogHers – consider YOURSELF tagged if you’re reading this and you haven’t BEEN tagged or haven’t BEEN tagged in the last six months. And If I stumble into someone I think deserves to be tagged – I’ll come back with that link. I swear.

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