I think that's the most crude title I've ever put on a blog post. Not the most obscene, but the most juvenile. That said, it being the day before Valentines' Day, and also the day after the day after the occasion of my little sister's engagement, I'd like to share a…

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I am half-starved.

If my mind were a body, its stomach would have gone past gurgling. 

 Nothing's wrong. Nothing's bad. I am not unfulfilled in my relationship. I'm not unsatisfied with the rigor of my education. I'm not dreading the end of the term, and the start of my last… Read full post »

I am pro-choice. I am pro-access to contraception. Pro-access to abortion. Pro-access to family planning services. Pro-sex. Pro-access to prenatal care. Pro-pregnancy. Pro-fertility treatments. Pro-childrearing.

The last three are as much a part of being pro-choice as the first three. This is someth… Read full post »

This is just somewhat of a random reflection, but have you heard "The Pina Colada" song lately?

Basically, it's not just about someone seeking a companion who likes to drink cocktails that taste like sunscreen and diabetes...it's a cheery tale of thwarted infidelity, and how it brings people together.…

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Forty quarters.

 That's what you need. Forty paid quarters to recieve social security. It's ten years of full-time work - most people easily accomplish this before becoming eligible to recieve social security benefits.

 I worked in the elder unit of a legal services organization after my… Read full post »

I have a beef stew in the slow-cooker, and I've planned a cake. Lemon - his favorite. I'll go downstairs in a minute, and I'll start zesting, creaming, and measuring. Laid out around me on the floor are a textbook, highlighters in every color but yellow, and scraps of paper with… Read full post »

"Waterboarding is torture."

Thank you. Oh, god, thank you. 

Because of a project I've been involved in, I've had some contact with a handful of the  lawyers who represent Guantanamo detainees. I've had the opportunity to talk with them about what it's really like to fly to Cuba, take the fe… Read full post »

I have several bodies.

The one you'd see, if you stood next to me on a train, or would feel, on a rush hour train, if we were packed in next to each other, is completely unremarkable, a coordinated set of average sized limbs and torso and shoulders and breasts… Read full post »

The Boston Globe had a story yesterday, about a Canadian member of a fundamentalist mormon sect, alleging that Canada's laws outlawing polygamy are discriminatory. Laws outlawing polygamy are discriminatory - but not for the reasons he alleges.

He argues that bans on plural marriage are religously di… Read full post »

This is not a metaphor.

I really, really love chocolate cake. Fudgy, rich, with that catch-you-on-the-back-of-your-tongue chocolate bitterness, and that jaw-tightening non-sticky sweetness...something with enough chocolate in it that the cake looks almost black. Velvety, but still...resilient. Frostin…

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A middle child, no significant accomplishments or hardships. Eyebrows like a beagle until present. First kiss, late. First heartbreak, late. College, first attempt, thankfully inchoate as a writer, painter, actor, then expelled. Presumed too pragmatic for flowers, hearts, or clean sheets, struck by m… Read full post »

One of the county probate courts in Massachusetts has a reputation of being -highly- unpleasant.

In general, the reputation is based on the attitude of the clerks, the arcane and bizarre procedures required to get a copy of any document from them, and the overall condition of the building.

Massachus… Read full post »

A very, very important question is posed in this clip. A question I've spent some time considering over the past couple days.

Not - Am I the kind of chick who would double up on Lawrence, if he had a million dollars? I haven't actually considered that.

But I'll give it some thought.…

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In Providence's Federal Hill neighborhood, there's a building my boyfriend and I call "Crack School," which I've now learned is actually the Grove Street School...

It's abandoned, long-term, hard-core abandoned. More than that, it's half torn down.

It turns out that the reason it's been left, f/…

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As, I think, I've explained before, a "Vitamin-Enriched Pork Rinds" solution is a situation where you've correctly identified that there IS a problem, and you've tried to find a solution to that problem- but the chosen solution only reveals a deep misunderstanding of the problem you're facing.

For exa…

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Movie was good; a little slow paced, not as beautiful as the rat-chef movie- the Chaplin angle, which has been much talked up, could have been fleshed out more. The animation was...incredible. It was entirely possible, until the squidgy globey humans came into the movie, to forget that it was animate…

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I'll be 26.

My plans: Gym, citation seminar, work, school, cake with parents. Other than work, it's identical to the very busy birthday of an over-scheduled four year old.

I suppose you're supposed to reflect on how time passes when you turn 25, but I was just too damned busy. The…

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"Chinese nipples" is STILL the search term that brings the most people to my blog, thus proving that the internet is, after all, just a machine that exchanges credit card numbers for a tingly feeling in the down-there.

Of course, there are other things that bring people to the internet. Searching for…

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For the first time in a long time, I'm having trouble writing- everything. Blog posts. A paper for something. A confusing letter to a celebrity I'm obsessed with. Emails to friends...

I think I may blame Christopher Hitchens. Probably not. But I may.

Christopher Hitchens wrote an article for last month…

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A case, annoyingly, patronizingly, and sickeningly referred to as "Roe v. Wade for Men" has finally been dismissed by a federal appeals court.

This case was brought by a gentleman who had a relationship with a woman who told him she was infertile. They had sex. They conceived. He preferred that she…

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5:20 AM. I wake up before my alarm goes off, or maybe I was already awake and just waiting to turn it off. I make my bed (this consists of folding it up, because right now I'm sleeping on a futon in my living room, and re-arranging the pillows and blankets…

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I was walking home from the train station today when something...terrible...happened.

I was just past the fire station when I passed a man pushing a stroller. In the stroller was a baby. It was a classic baby, I suppose, nothing exotic or imported. It was a young baby; I'm not good at…

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