tired of being
the phoenix, the storm is old
i crave slow waters

I have had my apologies rejected. Based on who I used to be, I can see why.

It's rare for me to truly reject someone's apology... I might be unready to accept it when offered but eventually I will.

This entry got me thinking about a friend from whom I am estranged and what happened between us. I had thought previously that given her fractious history ( Read more... )

statistically speaking, i should be dead by now.

I'm not.

Anita Blake, Terry Pratchett, candy, Angel, The Misfits, uh, I dunno. Ask me about something you think I should like.

I couldn't tell you. Statistics suggest that women in the USA are now working more than men, yet they do 66% of the housework and 90% of the childrearing (numbers vary with the study; these are the numbers I remember).

I think the people that really get the shaft are the intergendered, the genderqueer, and the genderless. The false binary equation ( Read more... )

more like a desparate attempt to win a losing battle.

In other news, reading
The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar - Volume 1makes me want to shake Studley, Fenton and Harrington by their mouldered bones and call them idiots.

 but i don't WANNA go anywhere! I just got here and it's perfect! *sighs* if I HAAAD to go, I suppose it'd be somewhere in the UK. But not Wales. I'm not culturally Welsh and as I understand it, THe welsh aren't too keen on non-natives. (Who can blame them?)

I don't want a gravestone. I want my body given to forensic science.

Leareth does this great impression of one of the guys from Weird Science that makes me laugh like crazy. One time I was a little giddy (I don't remember why) and he was reducing me to helpless tears. We went to get gas and he said it after I got out of the car. I literally ROFLed, right there in the gas lane!
 

 you can check my profile for a few of these.

Also:

"No one can make you inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Singin' love is the answer to a question/That I have forgotten/But I know I've been asked/And the answer has got to be love love love" ~Regina Spektor - Reading Time with Pickle, only Love is the answer to EVERY question.

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