So, the 25 telling facts about myself thing: it took a while to come up with anything not completely lame. :) So here is the merely claudicated version.

( 1. When I was 5, my heroes were Albert Einstein and Bugs Bunny. It occurs to me that I haven't changed much. )

I'm only religious in the "I hope there are gods so I can laugh at them, too" sense, but I have a fair number of beliefs that do not require the existence of a god of any kind ( Read more... )

I've been thinking that we give people gifts for specific reasons, not things we think they need, but that support an aspect of them that we feel drawn to support. At some point today, I decided that I was going to do New Years resolutions based in what I got for Yule in an effort to be more like the me you think I can be. We'll see how well this ( Read more... )

How to have an argument generally.

How to be a man arguing with a woman.

How to argue: the video.

Conflict Management for Dummies.

Games we play and why we start arguments. The primary SO and I have been spatting about our boundaries and the direction of our lives. It's mostly settled now, no worries. But I have been looking at the ( Read more... )

I keep thinking that I'm going to wake up from the Capraesque dream of our country being under new management. But it keeps being real ( Read more... )

Soon I'll be back to talking about deep, funny things. Right now I'm taking a minute to apologize for this month's conversation always leading back to the daddy issues, and to say that I'm now as over it as I'm getting 'til I get resolution from his side of things. I've gotten a grip on his right to remain unknowable and die a stranger, but will be ( Read more... )

A friend was married Saturday, and I wish him well of it. But if the priest had talked any slower I might have buzzed up out of my seat and forced caffeine down his throat while shrieking at him to TALK AT A NORMAL FUCKING PACE, YOU SEX-NEGATIVE BABY PUSHER ( Read more... )

I am eating cookies and Googling all the people whose names I remember from high school. Mint--double-stuffed Oreos and the world's most powerful search engine? Go together like bling and R&B ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes I have feelings and I don't know what they are, so it just bothers me continuously 'til I figure it out? Today I figured out why I can't just let the whole thing go and be calm about the family member of mine who's sick. For privacy's sake we'll call her A ( Read more... )

We burn with the power of a million stars ( Read more... )