Seriously, I Need to Get Some Sleep

It's like being 17 again, only with professional success, self-esteem, and no curfew.

But I really need to catch up on my sleep.

And get a lot of fucking writing done.

And... but first:

Sleep.

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"In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal."

Yes, This is What Happens at Planned Parenthood

Over 90% of women of childbearing age use some sort of contraception method. I quickly became aware that my male gender has allowed me to pass through medical school (and life!) totally ignorant of all of this. My patients came in using almost everything–condoms, the pill, the patch, Nuvaring, Depo–and I was left perplexed. What a humbling role reversal–this was one of the first times it’s been so painfully obvious that my patients are more informed about their health and medicines than me.

Valuing Girls

Here's a look at an all-girl public elementary school in New York. I'm not a huge fan of sex-segregated schools, but watching what they do here - naming the classrooms after women of achievement, having women speakers who are doctors, lawyers, football players; promoting a girls-are-women-of-achievement atmosphere - makes for a good look at how things could be really different.

The Life of American Vagabounds

La Vida de Vagabundos Americanos

More Reasons to Take Martial Arts Classes

Because most fights only have to last about this long.

HouseKeeping

I've been spending the weekend trying to put my book projects in order (OK, Saturday was mostly pancakes, barbecue, and the like, but I was thinking real hard about it. Most of the actual working happened today, while I was still hungover from staying up too late out here).

And today I reviewed, once again, all of the projects I'm currently interested in completing and shopping:

Nyx books:

God's War - shopping
Black Desert - drafting
Babylon - synopsis

Ruusu books:

The Dragon's War - shopping
Over Burning Cities - drafting
Book 3 - rough outline
Book 4 - rough outline
Book 5 - rough outline

Stand-alone guerrilla-girl genocide novel:

The Burning Fields - rough outline/researching

Hell, if I could sell the Ruusu books, that's enough projects to keep me busy for the next ten years. And if I don't, well, there are still enough books about guerrilla girls and holy wars to keep me busy for five or six.

I don't consider this a bad thing. Problem is, I really need to keep other shit off my plate until I finish some of these. Right now the priority list is the Nyx books, followed by The Burning Fields. All the Ruusu books are on hold for now. I think I may need to revisit the concept when I'm a little more skilled.

In the meantime, no more projects on the fucking burner until I have Black Desert in the bag and at least half of Babylon done.

Mmmmmm

My bills are paid, my account is empty, and I have a bunch of writing stuff to clean up and put together today.

Tra-la!

Zelda

Legend of Zelda Artwork.

Snapshots from my Worklife

We're working with a new software program here, and I'm reading through the technical how-to material that was sent to us by the software creator.

There are typos, certainly, which I find even more annoying now that I do this for a living, but what stopped me in my tracks was this:

"Help - Takes you to frequently asked questions, an instructive knowledge base, and other tools to aid you."

I'm sorry... WHAT THE FUCK IS "an instructive knowledge base"?

Instructive Knowledge Base.

Dear lord.

LOL Diabetes: OMG

And more!!

Remember: Life Starts Now

Joy's newest Fat Rant.

One for the Road

I love life.

Chinese Propaganda Posters

(text reads: Kill the bastard Chen Zai-Dao as a sacrifice to the souls of our brave martyrs)

More here.

My New Favorite Word Hangouts

I got tired of going to the ad-ridden dictionary.com and thesaurus.com at work in order to look up words.

Enter:

ninjawords.com (a free dictionary)

freethesaurss.net (obviously)

These are my new best friends.

Conversations from my Personal Life

Was talking over the phone last night with the guy I've been on again/off again dating the last month or so.

"Well, it's not like my head thinks this is a totally rational pursuit either," I said. "I mean, we have nothing in common, and we're both poor and in debt."

"We have LOTS of stuff in common," he said, deadpan, "We're both poor and in debt."

Man, can he make me laugh.

Life is engaging, at the moment. Have a big work convention thing coming up that's going to eat up the weekend of the 20th, and I'm putting together a presentation for that, including loads of documentation. There's a lot of shit to do, but you know, I love my job and I'm having a lot of fun. I've been working out regularly again and working on Black Desert and my roommates are crazy and the dogs are crazy and the guy I'm sometimes dating is crazy and yes, indeed, I am crazy... so yeah, life is damn good. Busy, but damn good.

I'm sure I'll have something more lengthy and profound to say about it all shortly.

Fucking Awesome

Where do I sign up?

Yay!

Falling Leaves

Back in Battle Ground, my mom and my nephew enjoy the season.

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