I’m not sure whether it’s more appropriate to laugh or cry…*this* is why my biggest goal with my daughter is to hand her as little baggage as possible.
They fuck you up, your mum and dad,
They may not meant to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for […]

I discovered the “Carnival of Education” today (just what I need: more blogs to read), but find myself very frustrated with the hard-right stance that the host blog and many of the contributors seem to take.

From Dooce:
Sometimes Jon and I talk about what life was like before we had a baby, before the dog, before the ongoing chaos of those responsibilities. And I remember during those first months of Leta’s life when I had a hard time going ten minutes without giving in to a nervous breakdown how I sometimes […]

Via Happy Feminist (see previous post), I came across the April 18th Carnival of the Feminists (just what I need…more time-suck blog reading!). Via CofF, I’m finding a plethora of fascinating posts about women, marriage, weight, and body-image.
The most perceptive comment I’ve seen so far comes from Hugo Schwyzer:
Though she doesn’t expand on it, […]

Looks like I need to finally do what (it seems) the rest of female civilization has done and read Pride and Prejudice. How could I not, after seeing this description of Mr. Darcy?
Mr. Darcy is sexy and compelling because he is a strong and powerful figure and also because he respects the strength and […]

This would mean a lot more to me if I actually read comic books, but I can’t argue with the short description. Looking back at NN’s results, I see that we run opposite on many of the characters; I’m guessing that has a lot to do with introversion versus extraversion.
Your results:You are The Flash

The […]

…that at nearly-35, I still can’t seem to hold a conversation with my father about our relationship and the boundaries that are/aren’t there?
Grrrrrrr.
When I give any indication that a question (or suggestion, or instruction) is out of line, the response seems to be for him to think that I don’t want my parents involved in […]

I did it…I signed up to take the GRE in roughly a month. At this point, I plan to apply to at least 2 or 3 PhD programs for School Psychology.
Possible universities:

University of Denver
University of Colorado at Denver
University of Texas at Austin
University of Washington
University of Oregon

The two Colorado Schools are definites…then I might add […]

Sometimes a little retail therapy isn’t a bad idea.

This has to be the best fuel-economy quip I’ve seen. Ever.

I love listening for the April Fool’s Day story on NPR each year…but this year did they have to be so obvious about it?