Monthly Archives: October 2007

decompression? is that in the manual?

October 26, 2007 – 10:51 pm

I had the right idea on the way down. Sitting at the airport, waiting for my flight to San Fran, I cracked open the laptop and started working on my long-abandoned first novel, which I rediscovered while backing up my old hard drive. Reading through it, my first thought was “Huh – it’s not that [...]

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nanowri-what, now?

October 18, 2007 – 3:15 pm

I signed up for NaNoWriMo. Why? Because I am a crazy person. Seriously, I have time for this? Between kid, work, school, visiting relatives, and Thanksgiving? (I probably don’t even have to mention that I have one, maybe two projects that are on a tighttighttight 30-day deadline.) Yes, clearly I can also write 50,000 words. [...]

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more reasons to love milla jovovich

October 15, 2007 – 1:01 pm

“IT’S unbelievable how quickly it all happened – all I did was eat three bagels every morning with butter, peanut butter and jelly all over them, a few boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts for lunch and boom! I’m tipping the scale at 195″ – a very pregnant Milla Jovovich at the London premiere of “Resident [...]

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oooookay

October 15, 2007 – 10:18 am

I used to know how the word “okay” came about, linguistically. I could look it up. I’ve already decided I’m not going to, though, so you’ll just have to take my word: it was entertaining. Or not. I really don’t remember.
Maybe I just have an unrealistic idea about what “okay” is. I keep looking for [...]

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running (out of steam)

October 12, 2007 – 3:17 pm

As you can see (from a screenshot! Of the sidebar! Of this very blog! Oh, I am so meta it hurts), I’ve completely and utterly failed in my goal to run 10 times in 4 weeks. According to my widget, I have 7 days to finish 8 runs. Which, sure. I could. But, let’s be [...]

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sigh

October 6, 2007 – 10:06 pm

You ever have one of those days when you realize that you’re never, ever going to look like yourself again?

Okay, that’s not the best example. Try this one:

I don’t even look like I’m related to the person I was ten years ago. I look a little bit like I might have consumed her. Like [...]

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BMI demystified

October 3, 2007 – 8:15 am

Kate of Shapely Prose put together a Flickr slideshow illustrating the difference between underweight, normal, overweight and obese according to BMI standards, and just like that I started feeling better about my weight. I mean, it’s one thing to suspect that BMI is a crock of crap; it’s another to see a woman with a [...]

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