Something really weird happened to me today.

I had a minor but significant medical procedure involving several of my triggers (all of which are medical, all of which date to cancer treatment/surgery in my teens).

And I'm not triggered.This is freaking me out in the best kind of way ( Read more... )

Does anyone feel like they have a line on the aesthetic sense of fourteen year old boys? I'm buying my nephew a cell phone case for Christmas (on the request of my sister), and I have no idea what to pick. In terms of clothes, he's a jeans-and-t-shirt dude, and shows no color sense to speak of; he's a Boy Scout, and kind of outdoorsy; and he's in ( Read more... )

SCENE: Leigh and Amal are putting away the clean dishes from the dishwasher ( Read more... )

My response to the "Amina Arraf" and "Paula Brooks" debacles.


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This is a burning question that I definitely, 100% need answered via the scientific method of a poll on my journal. (Probably most relevant to folks who are native speakers of English, but other folks should feel free to take it ( Read more... )

*waves ( Read more... )

The Nahurriyeh household is covered with holiday detritus. All around the living room, my son's arranged his new toys in piles: there the plastic guitar, there his extremely large pile of small plastic animals, there the box for Mommy's new slow-cooker, with an eye-hole cut so it can be a robot costume. The Christmas tree, in all its fiberoptic ( Read more... )

My hard drive is in the middle of a catastrophic failure, so I'm backing up what I can before taking it to the shop tomorrow for what will, hopefully, be a brand-new, covered-under-warranty hard drive. Many files are corrupted, because my computer fucking hates me ( Read more... )

What's the standard warning for a ship with a huge age gap? Cross-generational? Inter-generational? Warning: nekkid old lady (implied ( Read more... )

In the US, today is National Coming Out Day. Like many holidays, it is both a product of a major marketing campaign and a legitimate expression of community feeling among many, many, LGBTQ folks.

In the spirit of recent efforts to encourage queer youth in their struggles with bullying, self-identification, and depression (see: the It Gets ( Read more... )