Tag: books
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Pink moon, pink lady
When you haven’t used your words in a while, it becomes even harder to put them down. You think oh, I must write about that, and I must write about that, and I must write about that, and then that all becomes too weighty and you can’t write about anything. And meanwhile your brain churns […]
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Cleavage
I’ve moved back to Ngaio and I’ve started reading books again. I read more than half of Cleaving in one sitting. I thought I had identified with Julie Powell before in Julie & Julia as she worked a boring job, made friends on the internet, watched a lot of Buffy and got drunk frequently. But […]
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Keep calm and carry on
My darling Megan, she of the 6am her waking up me still struggling to sleep State of the Union g-chats chats about mutual friend-ish who apparently really is just that oblivious to the hurt he does, bought herself a water bottle that instructs her to keep calm and carry on. I needed a similar thing […]
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2009 in review
Every year I answer the same 40 questions to do a stocktake of where I’m at. Check out previous years here. 1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? Got made redundant Stayed overnight in hospital Lost items of value in a burglary Had my first threesome. And my second. And […]
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Doing the jumble
Things are all bleeding into other things right now, except for my twat bleeding into my panties like it should be, except for the occasional days of spotting. Oh yes that’s right, it wouldn’t be a proper Hubris entry if we didn’t spend at least part of the time talking about my period now would […]
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Drinking for free: week four
Last week I was totally and utterly exhausted, so I planned to use the Quiz Night bar tab as my source of free drinks, but then I left the tab at home. Luckily Karen stepped up to the plate and told me about the book launch for Looking flash: CLOTHING IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND edited […]
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Caught orange-handed
Bulletpoints are really a whole lot easier than writing coherant paragraphs, aren’t they? So would you be disturbed if I did another bulletpoint update? Of course you wouldn’t. You love me, right? Right? My RSS is back. Well, at least if you’re using Bloglines anyway. My palms are no longer orange. Yeah, I bought this […]
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How many is a Brazillion?
So Cheney is briefing Dubya on the events of the day, and of course Dubya isn’t paying much attention because he’d rather be playing with his toy cars, but when Cheney says “…oh and three Brazilian soldiers were killed today in Iraq,” George looks up and his eyes seem terrified. “Dick,” he says, “how many […]
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