About Ayelet Waldman -- I didn't dislike with the column on loving her husband more than her kids, though I found it boring in the way a lot of mundane confessional writing is. But if she wants to share that about herself, okay, whatever.
But I did have a problem with the column saying she hopes her son will be gay (because then he'd shop with her), but not her daughters (because they'll judge her for shaving her legs). It just seemed like an inappropriate thing for a parent to say about their child in a public forum, and I can't explain it better than that.
So, I was browsing the March DVD releases and found this:
Vampire High
WTF? How did I not ever see this?
I have a dorky school exciting thing to share: For a class, I wrote a survey for my fellow students to take. It was sent out over email this morning, and I've already got 48 responses! I love online people.
Hey, Cowgirl! Go you with your mad survey skillz!
an opponent of his conservative views doused him with salad dressing.
Salad dressing?? Is there some political content to roughage I don't know about? I mean, there is political theatre, and then there is "What I had in my fridge" theatre.
As for Ayelet Waldman, I am squirmy about all kinds of confessional writing, so I was made squirmy about her NYT column. Some people draw the curtain in different places from where I do. When I say potentially cruel or hurtful things about people who care about me, I change their names to Bob and Binky.
Which is not to say that the real people cannot tell that they are Bob and Binky, but I am all about the cloak of deniability. (And anyway, whoever said that thing about all novelists being traitors? Said it about novelists, so the Bob and Binky component is key.)
In Kalamazoo?
Shrift, where you last night???
Go you with your mad survey skillz!
Hee! Except, I just went and looked at the individual responses and more than one person said they'd be willing to talk more, but didn't leave their name or contact info. Oops. Not sure if there was a way to avoid that, though.
Congratulations, Jim and Penny!
And also moonlit, who I haven't seen in ages os she probably won't see this, but I'm happy for her.
Ack. Co-worker is insisting on talking about Terri Schiavo. I'd avoided discussing that up until now. Not only going on about her opinion, but asking don't I agree with her? Just get your coffee and go away, woman!
Hell, now office mate's boss is in the conversation. Sigh.
