two things that are not exactly related

My husband is illegally wonderful in so many states I had to take him out of the union. In response to Michael Pollen’s article about Eat food, not too much, mostly plants (link courtesy ), not to mention Vegetarian is the New Prius (courtesy , my sister who never updates her blog), and also trying to get back on the weight loss wagon (she said, valiently ignoring the twelve thousand cookies she ate today), I put in a request to the Ted for more vegetable-based meals. Tonight he made grilled…

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I’m a bad person.

I think perhaps I’m not cut out for RP servers on CoH. Too many years of MUSHing, I suspect. I was just watching a character who’d come from a sheltered background drop pieces of information about her history and cryptic clues about what she was supposed to do to find herself, and she said she shouldn’t pursue them right then, because she felt very lost and alone. All I could think to say was, “Vulnerable, perhaps? Would you like to have sex?” I didn’t. I’m a better person than *that*.…

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unexpected social activity

We went into Cork today to find Ted some shoes (apparently this is the Fortnight Of The Shoe) and upon arriving at Patrick Street, discovered trundling toward us. Actually, Ted discovered her, and said, “Hey, isn’t that ? To the left. The left. The *left*,” while I looked all over the place and failed to find her. Turned out she and and their daughter were just about to go have lunch at the self-same restaurant Ted and I were planning to eat at, so we agreed to meet there after…

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