Last night, I had to explain to my family what a buttplug is. Why? I don’t know. My sister had decided to repeat the word (which she didn’t realise actually meant something — neither, oddly, did my mother) in gales of laughter. I got to describe the shape of one, as well as that concrete […]
Apparently I should not be actually thinking about things — analysing things just makes them worse, or confuses you about things.
Of course, this is a NYTimes article: not necessarily the best imaginable science writing. And a study that says that depressed people spending some minutes thinking about themselves get *more* depressed is not exactly […]
I finished the book The Collaborators today, and I was, in the end, disappointed. The blurb talked about how it was a story of the balance between large and small causes, your country and your family, how far you can or should go to save others.
Spoilers! I don’t particularly recommend the book, but fair warning.
I’m pretty sure the rash is a sun allergy. Though I’ve never had this before. I guess I will see: if it disappears shortly after I get back in the cold north, it’s something sun-related, if not, it’s something bad. Comparatively bad, anyhow, though I am not really pleased about this idea of a sun […]
I have this free-floating anxiety. I’m not entirely sure what it is. Part of it is the job security I feel I lack: I just bought a place! What if I lose my job and can’t find another and . . . blah blah dull. But not because it has been making me worried. I’m […]
Especially from those up in the frozen wastelands up north. But I seem to have a rash — heat rash, I assume, though it’s also swelling a bit too — all over my right hand and right foot, and it’s going up my leg and a little onto my left hand. Being in the sun […]
Sigh. I wrote a whole complaining post about Wordpress, but it got lost. I am now on 2.0. So far: I am unimpressed with the new admin interface, hate the changes to the write post page, and it did not fix my stupid mysterious theme problem. My support request seems to be responding only to […]
PZ Myers posted about religious people who are not anti-evolution — Orthodox Jews. Now, this is true: generally, a Jew who has been well-educated in religion does not believe that the Torah is *literally* true — nor do you actually need to believe in God to be Jewish (which is why I call myself an […]
A meme I am somewhat late in getting to.
Books are the first things I buy when I have spare money, but the first thing I cut out when I feel worried about money.
I hate getting rid of books, even ones I dislike and don’t intend to reread.
I don’t like owning hardcover books. They’re too […]
The problem with this vacation is that there are too many ways I want to relax at once. Nap? Do one of the multiple puzzle things I have? Read? I can’t do them all at once, but I want to. It seems somehow backwards and not relaxing — almost anxiety about getting in all the […]