Woman Eats Brownies, Gets Laid

really good essay by greta christina, about body image, gender… so much could be said, but it’s said well in this essay.
It’s not that dykes and hetero men don’t ever get anxious and stressed-out about whether they’re attractive. But they aren’t as likely to equate sexual attractiveness with a particular physical ideal. Issues [...]

on camping, homelessness, and living your own life, if you can manage it (and few don’t)

having trouble finding a sublet (and been subletting for over 2 years, with bouts of homelessness) and just getting tired of roommate issues, and that i can’t find a place of my own yet… and so i am researching bay area camping options.
Mobile Homeless:
Between the shelter and the streets lies a place [...]

you know you’ve been spending too much time with indesign when…

i’ve been sick, and am still up at 4am, needing to be awake at 8:30am to get to an important class i have today. from 11:30pm til 2:30am, it was restless half-under, part of me raggedly still peeking up, all turbulent and unable to sail to land of dreams. i’d fall into violently colored [...]

current workload

currently on my plate, a lot of them due now:
a completely redesigned 8-page, full spread newsletter, with binding & attached remit envelopes
plan the master print timeline for all collateral needed for our major dinner at the end of the year
design an original invitation for an event designed to woo former board members
design 2 different forms [...]

dude, that’s so mass

my younger coworker is an endless source of new terminology. combing thru our photo archive looking for images to put in my nonprofit’s upcoming quarterly newsletter, i found an afterparty photo (we all hooked up after a major benefit and… i’ll say no more)… i sent it to my younger coworker and [...]