Back from Chicago, a day early ( Read more... )

Happy International No-Diet Day!

Everyone who reads this, so really all maybe three of you, should go purchase a copy of Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body. I pre-ordered mine, and can't wait to get it. My dream is that at my next job I'll be able to teach a course on body size/shape, culture, and ( Read more... )

I realized today that I have no idea what hunger actually feels like. What I mean is that I actually can't tell if the feeling in my stomach is hunger, or whether it's something else entirely ( Read more... )

Apparently, all I use my LiveJournal account for is to read fatshionista.

Reason kabillion that I think M is a wonderful person who really listens to me:

On his trip to his dad's, he bought me a little present: A button that reads "A waist is a terrible thing to mind."

I've heard that saying before, but still . . . hee!

That's funny. I was just re-reading my last entry, and I'm not 29. I'm 28.

Today, while in a library working on a group project, my groupmate and I heard a large thump behind us at the glass door. A bird had flown directly into it, and was subsequently upright, and stunned, beak open and panting, sitting on the pavement next to the door. I wanted to go out and help it, but it was on the other side of an alarmed door ( Read more... )

Restless Leg Syndrome??? A recognized medical condition? WTF ( Read more... )

I cannot seem to get over this cold. It's been, like, a week. Granted, MNF and I have been probably re-infecting each other over and over, but still! I had to walk over to the Institute to return a movie today, and I thought I was feeling much better, but that shit wore me out! I'm knackered, just from walking across campus. Oy ( Read more... )

An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend to one of Indiana's Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called "crisis pregnancy center" run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed expressly to lure Planned ( Read more... )