wow...

and had the water in the fountains on the north and south lawn dyed green!

I need my grown-up card revoked. I just went to use the zipcar to go shopping for the show I am working on, and couldn't find my card. When I called in to have them open the car, they said they could do nothing, that I could pick another card up at the office. I ask where the office is and she gives me an address on Broadway. In New York City. Finally she opens the car becauseI start crying but we couldn't find the extra zipcard, so no deal.

Then I go to catch a bus home, and realize I left my wallet on the bus I got off! No bus pass, no money, no credit card. Bus driver calls other bus, and he hasit! Luckily, he is coming back this way and I can get on his bus and tetrieve it. Now I am waiting, andhave been for 2 hours and I am freezing.

This kind of stuff never seems to happen to other adults.

(My conclusion from all this is not to fall down in Canada.)

I'm just going to say that being out of doors in Canada has not been a good place to be this winter. There seems to be someone dying in a an avalanche every week. This past week there was a man who watched his wife and child fall through the ice in their SUV. Two women in BC survived being buried alive in an avalanche. And poor Natasha Richardson.

This is why I like to stay seated in my own home.

OMG. My sister has decided last-minute to come out here in a month to go to Yosemite for a few days. And she has booked us into The Ahwahnee. Crazy.

Wow. The Ahwahnee is splendid.

Wow. The Ahwahnee is splendid.

I know. I'm just so happy they (my sister and niece) are coming out for a visit, but to have that on top of it is incredible.

Wow, megan, that place looks gorgeous!

I think tonight I'm gonna try calling the neighbor of the house who emailed me. I'm trying to do 2 things a night until the inspection. Got a couple of plastic tubs and packed up paperbacks that don't have shelves. T's dad isn't home yet and since I want to tell the whole family, that will wait. So...the call.

No sex please: An asexual life

Barratt calls herself “asexual”, and says she’s very different to the many people who decide to abstain from sex for religious or moral reasons. “Celibacy is a choice, asexuality is an orientation. It’s not something you choose to be, it’s something you’re born as.”

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And the trouble is, as Barratt acknowledges, the banner of asexuality is an attractive hiding place for those who are repressing their sexuality – perhaps because of latent homosexuality, or a phobia of sex, or a childhood trauma. “I think there are some people who identify themselves as asexual who have a fear of sex, who may have had something traumatic in their past that’s put them off. I’m not denying that they may make up a proportion of the asexual population, but I do think there’s many who are also physiologically different, wired not to be attracted to other people.”

One asexual who certainly can’t be accused of being afraid of sex is Holland. And that’s because he’s tried it. Now a student at Warwick University, having got through his teens with no interest in sex, he then found himself in a comfortable relationship, aged 20. He was curious to see what sex would be like, so he decided to give it a go. He thought that trying it might kick his hormones into gear. “I thought some hidden sexuality might blossom, but it just wasn’t something that I was driven to do like she was.” After several months together, Holland split up with his girlfriend, partly because of the difference in sexual appetites.

Holland says that sex was “quite fun, quite enjoyable”, but crucially, he has no drive to go out and do it again. “If it happens it happens. I enjoy golf but if I never play it again, I don’t care.”