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Women and politics
There's an interesting article in this week's New York Times Magazine about female voters and how they differ from male voters. An interesting quote:
When it comes to politics, it’s not just that women are ambivalent; it’s that, as a group, they are less interested than men are-not all women, naturally, but on average. In a 2006 University of ( Read more... ) -
Saturday's child works hard for a living
I finished my two rush projects, and after an evening blissfully free of work, I started the next. The new book is the third in a trilogy, and from what I've read in the manuscript so far (and in a bit of the first book, which was enclosed), I think it will be fun to work on. It's not due for several weeks, but the manuscript is long, so I have to ( Read more... ) -
Working girl
Two weeks ago, I was almost caught up with my work. Then all my major projects came in, and this week I'm buried. This time of year is always busy, so I can't really complain. But Friday seems like a long way off ( Read more... ) -
Knowing how way leads on to way
I haven't been posting much these last two weeks, but that doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about my blog. Every day some random thing strikes me as blog material. I often jot these ideas down in my notebook, but if I don't get to them right away, I feel like the moment has passed, and then I rarely go back to them ( Read more... ) -
Checking in
I haven't blogged in a week, mostly because I've been too busy doing stuff to have time to write about it. On Saturday night, I went to see Brad play; on Sunday, we had dinner and played darts with some friends of his, and on Monday we saw the movie Juno. (Which was definitely worth seeing in the theater.) And though I meant to post on Tuesday or ( Read more... ) -
I have finally entered the twenty-first century.
For reasons I can't really explain, I've had this aversion to online financial management. Last year I did my taxes by hand, as I have every year since I started paying taxes, and I paid with handwritten checks, as I have with every bill I've ever received. People tried to tell me about this newfangled method of paying bills electronically, but ( Read more... ) -
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Last week I made a casserole in my CrockPot so I could both eat better and stop spending $8 a day for lunch. I had it today and felt virtuous...till I blew the good karma by getting hot chocolate at Starbucks and a Cinnabon at, well, Cinnabon. I'm not sure man was meant to ingest that much sugar in one sitting ( Read more... ) -
Profession of doubt
As I was cramming Friday night to finish The Year of Magical Thinking in time for my book group meeting, I read the following section:
I realized that I had never believed in the words I had learned as a child in order to be confirmed as an Episcopalian: I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness ( Read more... ) -
Reading
I realized today, as I set aside The Year of Magical Thinking to write in my notebook, that my reading habits have changed. When I was younger, I always had a book going, sometimes several at once. I used to get so wrapped up in novels, I'd read them in the school cafeteria, while waiting in line, and of course, far into the night. That still ( Read more... ) -
Managing
I really hate paying bills in January. It's like waking up after a party and realizing I have to clean the house: The whole mess seems a lot more daunting than it did when I went to bed. Granted, I'll be able to pay everything off, but I wish I was better at managing my money ( Read more... )