OMG, it's like the KGB are after me. I haven't felt like this in years (though it did used to be a regular sort of occurrence). I am, in fact, barricaded in at home with the curtains shut and the phone off because I am hiding from my family because it is Easter Sunday. And it's not even that I didn't want to go to festivities, it's that my ( Read more... )

In honour of Day 3 of 14valentines. Today's subject is health. There's an essay on the subject here. This post is a tribute to a New Zealand woman I greatly admire. You might enquire why I'm not saving it for 'politics', but I have something else planned for then.

( Georgina Beyer: Stripper, Prostitute, Transsexual, Mayor, Member of Parliament, Mana Wahine (Woman of Respect) )

In honour of Day 1 of 14valentines. Today's subject is body image. There's a great essay on the subject here. This post has little to do with body image per se, except possibly for how my love of this sort of food led to a love/hate relationship with my own body ( Read more... )

You know the strain is getting to you when you find yourself fighting with an eight year old. My shame, my shame, my abiding black shame. I need a wheelbarrow in which to carry it ( Read more... )

Five questions from bloodquartz.

1. What is your honest, no holds barred opinion of the NZ government today?I'm happy with our government. They've brought in social policy I care about -- Civil Unions, the Relationship Property Act (the cases where partners missed out used to make me cry at Law School), the decriminalisation of prostitution (not that I'm in ( Read more... )

Do you guys have those days where you just fall in love at first sight hearing with a particular song and can't stop listening to it? I have had The Highwayman by *ahem* The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings) on permanent loop in my bedroom for the last seven and a half hours. My mother was most ( Read more... )

Okay, remember the picfic where my Clarks and Lexes were getting it on? I was so pleased with it I then went away and left the boys(es) lying on the table. Because, y'know, it's my house. And I can. And my friends already know I'm nuts ( Read more... )

Wow. My mum just came round and spent the day with me, and it was really nice. Up until the moment when she told me that her hours have been reduced for next year, and she's going to be short for the mortgage, and would I help her out? And I said sure, how short? And she said two hundred. And I said sure, two hundred a month, no problem. And ( Read more... )

Well I'm back. And I have very little to say. But because you were all so fantastic and supportive (and I'm not just saying that, it really helped a lot) I will say that I feel matters have been satisfactorily resolved, at least for the foreseeable future. It wasn't pleasant, but nothing truly horrendous happened either, and none of my worst ( Read more... )

Thank you all for the wonderful advice you offered re my visit to Melbourne - sadly you didn't all agree and I had to make up my own mind instead of listening to your unanimous opinion. I decided to compromise - I've forced my sister to come with me - I figure that way we can support each other, and if it comes to it we can disappear downtown and ( Read more... )