Category Archives: whining
Got Married
So Jeremy and I got married on Thursday. (This is the Marriage is Serious Business picture.) We tried to keep it as low-key as possible, because a) we’re not big ceremony people, and b) I’m not really in the greatest of health presently, so it was in our best interest to keep it simple.
I think [...]
And I failed typing in high school
94 words
Touch Typing
The Quiet Wedding
As reported elsewhere, I’ve gotten engaged.
I’m sitting on what is, I suppose, a kind of personal conflict. Marriage is a traditional heteronormative lifepath, and the non-traditional, non-heteronormative parts of me tend to bristle at the thought of it. First, there’s the historical issues. Women being handed over from father to husband like cattle; the white [...]
1: Things with Unexpected Significance
I couldn’t make this picture not come out fuzzy, go figure.
This is a teacup, German-made china. Note the lack of a saucer, and the bit-up edge on one side. This is a cup my grandmother managed to bring with her on the boat from Germany to Canada in 1950 after my grandfather got back from [...]
Things of Unexpected Significance
Jeremy linked me to this the other day: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance. It’s a book full of photographs of objects along with the story of their particular significance to their owners. I really like this idea, and I think it would make a nice blog series. It would be fun for me to acknowledge [...]
Daemons
I’m not a big meme fan, but I liked these books, and I’m excited about the movie, and…well, I wanted to know what my daemon would be!
Warning sign?
I just spent a few minutes trying to dock my computer backwards. I hope this isn’t indicative of how the rest of the day is going to go.
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