Who sent me a Christmas box from Popcorn Factory, thank you. It was delicious and devoured, in that order. Unfortunately there was no identification of who sent it, so I'm hoping it's someone who reads this blog.

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• 09:38 "I go into Cameron films assuming I’ll need to compensate for storytelling anyway" - from @scalzi's review of Avatar: is.gd/5wm2C #
• 19:05 Joining other PDX Browncoats for weekly Buffy retro-screening. Tonight: "Witch" & "Teacher's Pet." #everyonelookssoyoung #
• 20:59 @davidscotton We're watching them in order. :) #itgetsbetter #

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• 06:13 It is a sweet day!/Yoga then Christmas Shopping!/Then Let's Make a Deal! #
• 17:13 twitpic.com/ujzkc - Waiting for this god damn Snow Leopard. #TiltShiftGen #
• 22:18 @robertchow heh. Chris Bowe told me a rumor 'bout you. ;) #

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Mexico City's legislators have passed a bill to legalize marriage equality.

I am very proud of my people!

"List the towns or cities where you spent at least one night away from home during 2009. Mark with an asterisk if you had multiple, non-consecutive stays."

Lesser Outer Heck*
Everett, WA*
Vancouver, BC
Santa Barbara, CA
Madison, WI
Lee Vining, CA
San José, CA

Huh. That doesn't look like as much traveling as there actually was.

This next year promises more travel. NYC next month, Argentina (if we get it organized already), WisCon in May, PDX or MSP or PVD in the summer, Greece/Turkey in the fall. That's not including the regular monthly visits to Lesser Outer Heck, or the random weekends up to Seattle (well, Everett), or the impromptu roadtrips or weekends away (already thinking of the Russian River Valley (god, I love that place) and farther north).

I better plant more trees.

"List the towns or cities where you spent at least one night away from home during 2009. Mark with a star if you had multiple non-consecutive."

Columbus, OH*
Madison, Wisconsin
La Jolla, CA
San Diego, CA
Dyersburg, TN*
Lebanon, OH*
Albany, NY
San Jose, CA
Chicago, IL

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• 14:59 Photo of my reading on @30hourday, courtesy @igalko: is.gd/5vkEk (thanks to everyone at #30hd for a great event!) #

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• 08:37 Wait a sec? AVATAR is racist? Huh? #
• 08:58 @madge707 Hmmm. Maybe like a membership to a local bar or restaurant? I'll do some research. You must visit me, too!!! #
• 09:35 We have begun the Singing Dogs "Jingle Bells" marathon in our house. How long can we listen to it over and over and over? #
• 10:19 And we lasted 44 minutes. On to something else. Perhaps Loscil? #
• 12:29 twitpic.com/udb7i - Christmas wrapping on a dog. #TiltShiftGen #
• 15:17 Doing nothing & loving it. #
• 15:18 Okay, watching Foo Fighters on Palladia. I think I would have fun hanging with Dave Grohl. He's a funny guy. #
• 16:57 twitpic.com/uemsx - "daddy can I please sit with you in the big chair? There's lots if room." #TiltShiftGen #
• 17:58 @anthonyha why Ira glass? #
• 18:10 @GregProops ha! Watching u right now! You're the best thing about the show. #
• 18:15 twitpic.com/uf0qk - "I'z helping u right like the dog does. Dis make book better?" #TiltShiftGen #
• 18:18 twitpic.com/uf13m - I have writers block. It's 15lbs, likes chicken & licks it's own butt. #TiltShiftGen #
• 18:58 I love how Krampus is still getting tons of press even though his day is long gone. There's always next year!!! #
• 19:10 @TWalk I'm dying for mine. Got a little work to do & then it's showtime!!! #

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This is my last day of work in Marquette. It feels surreal. I'm wearing my How Ood shirt, to cheer me up. It's not that I haven't come and gone at different jobs, I usually only work at a place for two or three years before I get bored and move on, but I think that this is the first time I've quit jobs that I've liked. And, well, the whole moving thing. ( this got long )

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• 04:10 Preparing for the @whiffies pie-eating contest yfrog.com/4ensoyj #30hd #
• 04:55 17min of pie-eating madness remain yfrog.com/6mn7abj #30hd #this.is.whiffies! #
• 05:10 You know you've been watching too much #dollhouse when you see this: yfrog.com/1eqllj ...and think "wedge." #30hd #tech #

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• 07:59 It is a sweet day!/I got my $3K back, man!/Being a pest rules! #
• 08:09 today i will write me the shit out of some words. #
• 08:19 Bye, bye, Saab. Millions of hippies, doctors & fancy pants will miss you. So will @dasmart for not getting to flip over one more time. :) #
• 09:08 It's the time of Sat. morning here all the sites have no news & I should either get on with the day or whip out some varsity catwaxing... #
• 10:40 1 chair, 2 humans, 1 dog. #furnituretest tweetphoto.com/6743318 #
• 10:55 twitpic.com/u6mfz - Writing is done for the day. #TiltShiftGen #
• 14:44 twitpic.com/u7sdv - Nirvana on the left & cheese on the right. Late lunch w/ @somavinyasayoga & @aperdupper. #TiltShiftGen #
• 16:03 @madge707 about a half hour or so. Visiting? #
• 18:47 Dinner with yogis Roberto & Megu. #bestbirthdayever tweetphoto.com/6779234 #
• 20:31 twitpic.com/u9o7e - After the storm. #TiltShiftGen #

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The guy from the previous post is in the hospital instead of on the streets, for all those sending him good thoughts. Of course, I don't know how that's going, but I have hopes that he'll get a measure of help.

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• 08:33 I'll be reading aloud classic Xmas tales on @30HourDay late tonight (~1am Saturday 12/19). More details: is.gd/5sdo5 #
• 12:12 Friday #flashfiction: "Guards" snout.org/512.64 (two of them, to be precise) #512words #
• 15:40 Uploading crappy first draft of 2009 #nanowrimo novel to Lulu.com, so they can print hard copies for my beta readers. #whee #
• 22:56 Just over 2 hours until I read some Xmas tales on @30hourday. Tune in (and donate!) at 30hourday.org #30hd #
• 00:57 Behind the scenes at @30hourday yfrog.com/4fx3fvj #30hd #
• 01:02 Everybody loves recycling yfrog.com/3lklnuj #30hd #pdx #seriously #
• 01:27 Club Mugasha! yfrog.com/4e4bbj #30hd #
• 01:41 @30hourday Xmas readings delayed while DJ spins on. Doesn't this music put you in a donating mood? HMMM? #30hd #subtlehint #
• 01:57 Xmas readings pushed to 3am on @30hourday. #donttouchthatdial #
• 02:16 Watch the @30hourday livestreaming telethon at ustream.tv/channel/30hourday or 30hourday.org #30hd #stationidentification #
• 03:35 @verso Maybe I can start a side biz narrating web search results. :) #
• 03:38 Didn't read "Gift of the Magi" on air, but honestly it's a bit naff. Hope my Brit accents for "Xmas Present" were OK. #30hd #
• 03:48 I totally feel like I'm at Game Control. All we need is some phones ringing and bags full of clues... #30hd #
• 03:57 Managed to sneak in a plug for GrooveLily's "Striking 12" with my reading of "Little Match Girl." great show and CD; look it up. #30hd #

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• 07:01 Damn. It happened again. I'm one year older! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq9_78CcOoY #
• 07:30 Ungh. Gotta register the Xterra today. The excise tax is gonna be murder. "All I got was clothes for Christmas!" #
• 08:55 Hapy Birthday to Me: on phone with TD Bank to locate $3,110. Yee. #
• 08:56 Well, I was going to go to yoga until this happened... #
• 09:00 Hell on Earth> TD BANK's hold music with accompanying static. Horrid. Horrid. 'Orrid. #
• 13:34 At the RMV getting the truck registramated! #bestbirthdayever tweetphoto.com/6674105 #
• 17:39 Chilling with fam before kids choral concert. tweetphoto.com/6689576 #

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• 20:23 Seeing 2012. Mostly because of the Cinetopia coupon. Show starts in 7 minutes; no one else in the theatre. #notsogreatexpectations #
• 23:37 Ended up w/ ~13 people in theatre for 2012. When we left, entire lobby was filled w/ people waiting for midnight show of Avatar. #
• 00:43 @anthonyha We could, if it were, but it's not, so we won't. :) #

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• 05:56 it is a sweet day! coffee helps the cold blood flow! so does some yoga! #
• 18:05 For my birthday I'm seeing AVATAR @ 12PM in Westbrook tomorrow. Who's joining me?! :) #
• 18:06 Interestingly, eating all the potato chips and some Lake Champlain chocolate does not help one write a novel. #
• 18:34 Quasiparticles, have you a chitinous covering to spare? tweetphoto.com/6618820 #
• 18:35 @ValerieReiss life is empty & meaningless & there are no coincidences. #
• 19:46 Does 2 pgs of writing + 2 pgs of sketches = 4 pgs of writing for the day? tweetphoto.com/6622977 #
• 19:47 @matociquala they would not be eaten by me. Could also b the cupcakes that destroy the world. #
• 20:18 Who's this handsome fellow? tweetphoto.com/6625124 #

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I have been euphemistically called a "larger woman." I'm about 5'6" and weigh, recently, around 245 lbs.

The funny thing is, I've been losing weight because I'm not hungry. I haven't been feeling sick, but for the last couple of months or so, I've had a little bit of upset stomach pretty much all of the time. I eat like crap, so that may be part of it, but I've been eating like crap my whole life and it's only lately that I've been having the stomach thing.

Today, I ate a piece of toast with a couple of teaspoons of peanut butter, a Burger King double cheeseburger (they're on the dollar menu!), and a BLT. I think I had maybe three or four cups of coffee, about 6 oz of Mountain Dew, and a handful of potato chips. Adding it all up, it comes to around 2/3 of my normal food intake.

The stuff I've seen online talks about menopausal weight gain, or maybe weight loss due to depression or anxiety. But if anything, my mood has been rather stable this fall. I haven't had my usual outbreak of autumnal fey.

To the newcommers -- I like my body. It feels very me. So I don't have that "Yay, I'm loosing weight!" thing. Instead, I'm feeling a "Erm, what's going on with me?" thing.

I think that this has something to do with estrogen. But increased estrogen causes appetite loss. And I'm pretty darn sure that my estrogen levels aren't increasing. It may just be that my years of poor eating are catching up with me and I've got a stomach thing. Or it may be that my metabolism has slowed down and my brain is re-establishing my set levels. But I don't think that's normal; I think I'm just supposed to get fatter. Then again, I have cold flashes instead of hot flashes.

Anyway, enough noodling. I'm going to take a bath. My feet are freezing.

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• 12:12 @anthonyha Agreed except for "Belonging:" good mythology bits but lame A-story & plot holes (Topher's smarter than that). #dollhouse #
• 23:31 Xmas cards: written. Gifts to be packed up and mailed tomorrow. #

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I note here that the only time I've had health insurance was when I was pregnant and got Medicaid, and when Mike was in Iraq. Perhaps I will have health insurance again some day. But it won't be because the people who are wealthy and in power understand my life or actually give a fuck about me or my family.

This afternoon, I listened to a snippet of NPR and some woman was saying, tears in her voice, "I've worked hard all my life. But I was laid off and now I (sob) don't have any health insurance."

And I should have been sympathetic. I don't know anything about this woman or what she's going through. But all I could feel was a kind of sour pleasure -- yeah, that's the way it is. Welcome to my world. The whole jist of the piece sounded to me like "But I'm not one of those people."

Ya, you are. That's the point.