A couple years ago I was doing some research for a debate and looked up emergency contraception. The first page of Google was awash in the debate, in which the religious zealots posted a bunch of lies and those with actual medical knowledge (or had done research) responded with medical facts ( Read more... )

Three weeks ago I had LG over and we talked about whether we should continue dating. We kind of slowed down the romantic aspect of our relationship and spent most of the last six months or so developing our friendship. This is good, but I prefer to have a change like that explicitly spoken, so I brought it up. She didn't have a solid answer, so ( Read more... )

... or maybe they never were and my silence was borne of laziness. In any case, I'm planning to post more.

Updates since my last post of consequence:

At work, ( things are going fantastic... )

And this would be one of them.

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This speaks to me from every angle -- the obsessive dork angle, the Cosby angle and the pointless comparison angle, just to name a few. I love it.

This is both interesting and uplifting.

... good for you, Ioway.

And you, North Dakota.

Though it's not over yet as I write this, I'm done doing stuff for the day, so it might as well be.

Anyway, bammba_m and I had ourselves a nice day of hanging out. We had planned to go see Monsters vs. Aliens 3D at 11:30 this morning, so we met at 9:30 and had breakfast at Steak and Shake. Though we were originally slated to eat at IHOP, I'm glad we ( Read more... )

Sunday was to be the last day of South Beach: Phase One. I knew it would be tough to stick to because polymorphism and I planned to spend the entire day out of the house, which makes it considerably more difficult to stick to ( Read more... )

This morning at work, the owner of the company called a meeting for all employees, at which he informed us that due to a projected $2 million less income this year, the management decided to lay off three employees -- an admittedly extraneous person in the warehouse, one of the sales staff and my former carpool who spent most of last year out due ( Read more... )

... I'm going to think about New Years. Specifically, my resolutions from last year.

Lose 50 lbs.I failed to reach this goal, and completely fell off the wagon on my chosen method. However, through diet and exercise and a little something called "restraint," I've made it halfway to this goal. I was floating between 330 and 340 when I made that ( Read more... )