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Archive for January 2004

craving something ghettolicious

On 29 January 2004

Yeah. Where have I been? Right here, mostly, in my pajamas. There is no big story behind this Break From Blather. I am just so very Mommy these days, and everything I need to do (vacuum up Cheerios, read, nap, lie face-down on the couch and enjoy not hearing myself talk) (my god you talk […]

you, sir, are made entirely of dryer lint

On 12 January 2004

HEY! I AM NOT WORKING! SO IT'S EITHER TIME-WASTING LINKS, YAWN-INDUCING BABY STORIES, OR MY DRUNKEN RANTINGS FOR YOU! WHICH FIRST?This guy has friends. Good friends. Friends who covered everything he owned in tinfoil. Oh yeah! North Korean aerobics! You + Stevie Nicks = a very strange idea for next Christmas. More art, plus drugs. […]

remove the water, carry the water

On 6 January 2004

Does everyone know that I am not working for a month? For a whole month? For a whole motherfreaking* month? This is true. My job offers four weeks of paid leave for a new baby and homemade or adopted babies are treated exactly the same (as it should be). I did have to bring in […]

all-female fertility festival associated with Demeter

On 2 January 2004

I cannot decide if I am hungry or queasy, and this strange digestive quandary has plagued me since New Year's Eve. The empirical, scientific thing to do would be to procure food and attempt to eat it, and to see what happens, but the part of me that is queasy is terrified of vomiting (I […]