Nerdy Alto

... later that week Tiger the bookstore cat peed on it. So I never had to experience that catastrophic level of cognitive dissonance again.

I got an AWESOME dark green wool cloakish coat thrifting in NYC. I felt so bad-ass. It had a great drape. I got to work & a co-worker said, "Wow, great coat! You look just like one of those guys in Star Wars..." & I said "Jedi" at the same time he said "Jawas". Devastating.

I’ve sung on the stage of Wagner’s Festspielhaus and Wrigley Field.

Pay attention to the things fat people won’t do. We know the built environment is crumbling because it collapses for us first. We know air travel is getting shittier because it pinches us the hardest. We know medical care is getting more expensive and more evil because it make us the problem.

(Also, not to do a Hot Taek, but the Vienna Boy’s Choir are hooty and can’t sing a schwa.)

I love this so much, as a girl who sang, a young woman no one would train as a contralto, the church alto section leader replaced by a counter-tenor, & former A2 in the fantastic Vox Femina Los Angeles. There is something gross hearing a boy sing Mary’s moving words in the Magnificat.

… a “lap band in a box!” because the man who was treating me for multiple endocrine disorders refused to believe me when I told him I never overate. That med was later featured on one of those “have you or your loved ones died” lawyer commercials.

When I was pre-diabetic my endo told me that PCOS made me gain weight on my middle that made it hard to lose weight, & then said if I would just lose that weight I wouldn’t have that symptom. The next appt he offered to give me a fraudulent diabetes dx so insurance wld cover byetta… (1/2)

Over the last several years I have gone from medium fat to smaller fat, & nothing has radicalized me more to stand up for my former fatter self & current fatter friends. Esp as a woman. Got tits or ass? Drs will treat you as fat until you are visibly skeletal. You are fat until you disappear.

I appreciate all your efforts, as well as your transparency, regardless of outcome.

One of them was a band leader - "the" Jimmie Koa of Jimmie Koa & His Royal Samoans - from the 30's to the 60's. This other was a shitpiece who ran out on his family so I neither know no care what he did for a living.

Architect dad would often bring me to the office when I was wee & there was no child care. The back side of an old blueprint roll, a variety of mechanical pencils & erasers, & various templates that had landscaping or toilets & I was good for hours. Try that with AutoCad or Solidworks.

That has to be one of those AI glurge books. What author in their right mind would call their book "<subject's> Biography", and then leave the word "memoir", which implies that it is written by the subject, in the title. Yikes.

I have observed this as well! I have lived in several other states, and the willingness and promptness with which Oregonians (and adjacent) will pull over for emergency vehicles makes me proud. Thanks for being Not Embarrassing about one thing in particular, Oregonians!

People who vote for fascism because they want people who are not Fundamentalist White Men to suffer should get used to being disliked, disrespected, & despised. Them’s the breaks, bigots.

Ok, everything collapses in 20 years. I guess I’ll spend the next 1.5 hoping that blur was some guy trying to steal the one carrot I managed to grow that I shot & not just a neighbor bring me pie before my body collapses into a dysfunctional goo.

Since I can’t manufacture my own thyroid hormone, my body doesn’t know what to do with the insulin it does make, & I only have so long before everything looks like a green blur if I can’t get glasses, I fail to see what the point of depriving myself of culture & fellowship in the interim would be.

Bosun’s chair?

I don't understand - if they didn't want to get hit with snowballs, why did they go to a snowball fight? These are the softest, most cowardly, pathetic people who ever sniveled.

One of the reasons cis women lost our bodily autonomy in the Dobbs decision is that not enough men fought with us. It's incumbent upon us to fight for our trans siblings. If we do not own our bodies, we are not people.

Knock over as many resonant metal water bottles as possible on your way out. ISTG they're made of the same alloy as handbells.

Make sure you see the dude from the bog too! (don't know if he has a name) We almost missed him because he was in a corner far away from everything else we wanted to see. I feel much less weird gawking at a dead guy they dug out of their own country than all the stuff they stole.

Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass

Sure. And if I had wheels I’d be a wagon.

On the upside, the type of guy most likely to hit himself in the fave with a hammer is likely to align with the type of guy I feel deserves to be hit in the face with a hammer.

“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men.

is going to be as effective as I am, it looks like it's going to be a real whirlwind of a year.

wishes down on slips of paper, folding them, & burning one without looking each night between solstice & the new year. The Universe will handle each wish burned, you are responsible for the last. My "wish" was to form real friendships. I don't remember most of the other 12, but if the Universe

Anyway, it's pretty early in the year and people are already requesting my presence, so I'm really curious (and maybe a little scared) of what the rest of the year is going to bring... as an aside, right before Solstice a friend had brought up the Welsh (? possibly Scottish) tradition of writing 13

recordings so I can confirm that they are very talented (and they are - professional in fact, so I don't know why they wanted my opinion) then I guess it's time I gave up on the idea that I'm difficult to like.