My brother is buying me breakfast at McDonald’s, because we’re fancy like that. Then we’re going to spend the day doing free stuff, I hope. Errands are mostly free, right? Had a little bit of a freakout yesterday, but I’m pulling myself together today. Much like this baby*, who is working hard to grow into [...]
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This story could not be more bullshitty, at every level, from calling a transgender woman a “cross-dresser” to misrepresenting her gender and so on. But I’ve been thinking about this story since I read it this morning. Often, when transgender women who are working as prostitutes are killed, there’s a kind of “gay panic” defense–”I [...]
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It’s cool today, really cool, like you wish you had a jacket cool. Compared to this summer, it was a welcome relief. The Professor and I went to Mellow Mushroom for lunch and even now, I am in a warm, enveloping tired of yummy bread and cheese. The Butcher called from the driveway to insist [...]
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The Red-Headed Kid came over and they watched Thor while I moved pennies around on a table trying to understand where all the convention center money was going. The best part of the evening was that the Butcher and the Red-Headed Kid had both recently seen a movie called Ironclad which they both liked and [...]
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Baby Leo, the aforementioned baby in need of a snazzy hat, is here! I admit, I teared up when I found out. Everyone is fine.
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My friends, JR and Elias, have been expecting a baby since… well, obviously, since they found out JR was pregnant. Since I found out, I have been searching high and low for a perfect present. JR not only knits, she spins her own yarn and can quilt. They are probably just fine on the handmade [...]
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The Red-Headed Kid is here and he’s telling us about his little nephew who’s a year and a half old. They like to ask him what noises things make. “How does a dog go?” “Bark, bark, ruff, ruff.” “How does a cow go?” “Moo, moo.” “How does Granny go?” “No, no, no.” We’re now learning [...]
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The Butcher and I just taught the Redheaded Kid how to boil water and make hot dogs. He’s really tickled with himself. It’s cute. But now we’re fighting with him about being prejudiced against tall scrawny white guys, because he refused to watch any movie with Jessie Eisenberg and/or Michael Sera in it. I’m not [...]
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The Professor brought over lavender treats–truffles that tasted like I imagine Erik Northman tastes, cold, dark, and clean without being soapy. So… yeah, not quite delicious. But then! Then there was lavender pound cake and it was amazing. It was like something fairies would have for tea. And I’m totally going to give her all [...]
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I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is going through a rough patch. I guess I hadn’t realized exactly how rough it’d been going for how long, but this friend is the kind of person who has big passions and throws him/herself into them with such gusto that, even if [...]
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Coble has a name. I don’t call her it. Coble’s husband has a name, the defining part of which he brought into the marriage and yet, to me, it’s Coble and Coble’s husband. Not for great feminist reasons, but because I’m a midwesterner and in my culture, when you like someone and kind of like [...]
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There is one person I have known my whole life who I am not related to. The Other Minister’s oldest son was born in January and I was born Sunday. Anyway, he’s in the hospital with something that necessitates calling in the CDC. I told his brother to tell him that, if he doesn’t get [...]
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I was a little concerned about the two-cake situation, but the Butcher and the Red-headed Kid sat down last night each with a bowl full of a huge piece from both cakes and a large mound of ice cream. Each of them had tiny mountains of chocolaty goodness in their laps. The Red-headed Kid was [...]
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People, let us talk frankly about the bathroom at Noshville. I was in there with a Southern Woman of a Certain Age, seemingly of a Certain Class. You know the type I mean, small, impeccably put-together, can probably tell fake pearls at 50 paces, the kind of woman who has elevated “Oh, dear” into a [...]
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So, I came home to mow the lawn and I started the mower and I hit the gas pedal and… nothing. I hit it again. Nothing. I called my dad. He made me do all the things I’d already thought to do, but this time with him on the phone and that didn’t work. So [...]
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Yesterday, my boss said, “Oh my god, guess who’s set to star in and produce the Charley Pride biopic and I went down the list of black actors I thought had enough clout to star in and produce anything and who looked even vaguely like Charley Pride. I had no one. “Not Denzel. Not Morgan [...]
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I was going to spend the evening working on the novel, but I about had a panic attack about it today, so when the Redheaded Kid came over to hang out and tell us all about random text messages he gets from people he doesn’t know, I spent the evening doing that instead. Get this! [...]
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The cedar is slowly dying in the yard. It’s kind of depressing to watch it go limp. It’s hard for me to believe that trees don’t have some kind of… supernatural oomph, you know? Obviously not a consciousness, maybe not quite what we’d recognize as a soul, but in those moments when you turn your [...]
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One of the Butcher’s friends has been giving him rides to work since he started his job. Yes his JOB! The Butcher has a job that he goes to and he makes money and some of it goes to pay bills and buy groceries and it’s wonderful, wonderful, won… Where was I? Yes, so the [...]
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First, when Mrs. Wigglebottom and I were at the park yesterday morning, we were attacked by fucking ducks. Not like ducks I’m angry at, though I was a little angry, but actual ducks en flagrante who did not appreciate being disturbed. And the dog hid behind me, after barking at them and provoking them further, [...]
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I have known the Professor a decade. I count her among my dearest friends. And today at lunch, she said to us something so shocking, so out of left field, I am still a bit in awe of it. She thinks Reverend Dimmesdale is hot. Yes, the floozy pastor from The Scarlet Letter! I feel [...]
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So, I poured through Right By Her Roots. I mean, I drank it up. I would have stayed up all night just to finish it, if I’d been anywhere in the second half of the book last night. But instead, while the Butcher was working on his car, I spent the afternoon reading. Like I [...]
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I just received Jewly Hight’s Right by Her Roots in the mail! I know Jewly some and she’s very lovely and down to earth, but I am completely fan-girl excited about this book anyway. Which just goes to show something. Weirdly enough, I also think I’m back on track with the novel. I had hoped [...]
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