The Sheila Variations

Snapshots - and a random bitch-slap

-- Rain pouring down.

-- Finished my Stalin book last night. I'm gonna miss reading it. It's still percolating - but I'll probably post a bit more about it when I've processed it.

-- Starting Master and Margarita. The first chapter is terrifying. So goddamn good.

-- Up early. Dark rainy dawn. Coffee, incense burning, the Chieftains playing softly. Preparation for a business call I had at 10 am.

-- Going to the gym today. I would prefer to do my daily walk thingie, but it's too rainy. Ellipticals. iPod armband. I am all set.

-- Huge project happening right now - that was what my call was about. Really exciting. I'll write more about it when I know more. But my head is full of ideas and enthusiasm! Cool stuff - right up my alley.

-- I miss my family. I feel like it's been ages since I saw all of them.

-- Get well, Meredith. You're in my thoughts.

-- Got a random email from a gentleman who took offense at the fact that (now get this) I linked to this - without warning him that there was racy language involved. Apparently, the word "dick" in the first paragraph of Zach's post was too much for Boo-Hoo Pants, and he felt like I had tricked him into reading it - and so he felt ASSAULTED by FILTH - with no warning. Can you believe this guy? I see other bloggers warn their readers: "Offensive language coming ... be warned." "I'm linking to this - but just be warned: there are some curse words!" And that's fine if they want to do that - that's up to them, but I will never do that and I will not feel obligated to do that. You know why? Well, a couple reasons.
1. Because I'm not offended by cursing, or words like "dick". And I'm in this blogging game for me, not You (You as in a general large audience-type "you".) I mean, I love my audience, hell - I love that I even HAVE an audience - are you kidding me?? But I got this audience just from writing about what I like to write about. That's the best part of blogging, for me.
2. This blog is mine, and I link to what I find interesting or hilarious. If other people find the stuff I link to interesting or hilarious as well - then that's awesome!! But I'd link to that stuff ANYway. I don't have time to be warning people left and right that the word "dick" appears in something I link to. What the hell? The only time I would probably warn you guys about something - is if it was a movie review that contained spoilers. Because I personally can't stand when I am not warned and suddenly a blogger/reviewer/what-have-you gives something away. But cursing? Dick talk? Wow. There are barely enough hours in the day for me to write/pursue my interests/have a personal life/workout/eat/shower ... without having to take the time to add little warnings to my blog-posts. And so, Mr. Clean-Language-Complaining-Beeyotch-Man, here's a link. Just for you!! Enjoy!!

-- Mitchell has so turned me on to pickled tomatoes. I need to go get some more. There's a kosher section of the Pathmark and we just CHOWED on those damn things while he was here. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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