According to this new book, Smart Girls Marry Money, anyway. And my career woes would be over. Assuming the summary is accurate, the book is not asking why lady bartenders or lady web developers are “still slaving after forty” — maybe the assumption is that our prospects for marrying millionairesContinue Reading
Just came home through the back yard. There was a black cat in the yard of the same size and general type as Daughter, one of the spayed feral cats we have been feeding for the past ten years. So I assumed it was Daughter. Then she came up toContinue Reading
In writing up "Doppelgangland," I mentioned "Something Blue" as another instance of Buffy characters saying things about themselves which they clearly want to believe are true which are not, in fact, actually true.Continue Reading
Saw Star Trek over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised. It’s simply a good time at the movies — funny, fast-moving, occasionally touching, and full of life. My expectations were not high after the dismal double-whammy of Nemesis and Enterprise managed to suck the last tiny spark of vitality outContinue Reading
Or the voodoo saints are annoyed with me. Or I used up all my good karma points and now I need to rack up some bad ones. Or, something. That would explain why, just a couple of weeks after I broke my butt, I would get laid off. What IContinue Reading
April is national poetry month, so I thought I would talk about poetry. And then I didn’t finish this while it was still April. Anyway, for those of you who don’t actually want to read about poetry, my gluteal injury seems to be healing and my butt is significantly lessContinue Reading