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It seems it's not only adult fiction I'm having trouble with lately. "Trouble" meaning I can't get through it.

Points of fact: Do I care about every teensy event that happened to you up until the starting point of the story? Hey, what IS the "starting point" of the story, anyway? Was it your 10 page prologue? Your first of 273 flashbacks? What's ( Read more... )

It's making me nuts to hear so many people say that Michael Jackson was an addict, and therefore responsible for his own death.

People. Michael Jackson doctor-shopped till he found someone--Conrad Murray--who agreed to give him GENERAL ANESTHESIA every night in his own bed. Every other medical practitioner he asked turned down this outrageous ( Read more... )

I am the Nice Person in the mall who always walks around people. Ducking here, ducking there. Circling around clusters of bodies just fricking standing there hogging the whole middle of the road. Winding my convulated way through hordes of folks who obviously have no intention of stepping aside to perhaps let me pass by for a change.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought a prescription co-pay was, like...OK, your script "really" costs $250 bucks but your co-pay is $5 or $10 or $20 or whatever, and that's what you PAY. The insurance company picks up the rest. You pay PREMIUMS for this, right?

My whole-fricking-entire-adult life I've had co-pays. I know what co-pays ARE. Or at ( Read more... )

Well, so far it's been le jour de merde.

My mom-mobile started smoking under the engine, it's going to cost $1400 to fix the problem, and I can't drag hubby out to look at cars. I am NOT. SPENDING. ANOTHER. NICKEL. on this thing. After this, I mean. PLEASE REMIND ME!

Then Elijah, who loooves to get my attention by swiping me with his paw, swiped ( Read more... )

Grandma lives in a very nice nursing home. We pay for her private telephone line. She calls us 3-4 times a day (minimum!) to tell us the same 3 things and ask the same 7 questions, but hey, it's Alzheimers and she has NO short-term memory. Yeah, it's annoying at times, but I wouldn't dream of disconnecting her phone. Just so you know ( Read more... )

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1. Today is the day to sign up for JoNoWriMo: "It's a bit like NaNoWriMo, only you get an extra 1.5 months AND you don't have to write an entire novel. Basically, it's a time each year that a bunch of writers get together to support and encourage one another to meet a writing goal and/or finish a project." So get over there, dudes, and commit ( Read more... )