Where have I been the last six years?

The title of this post is not a hyperbole about my extended absence from my own blog. It's a reference to the fact that I'm finally watching The L Word in its' entirety. I have thoughts. So many thoughts! Largely regarding how annoying some of these characters are, but also about the groundbreaking representation of lesbians and bisexual women on television (granted pay cable).

In Honour of the New Look!

So yeah, I dig the ability to customize things. I might mess with the layout a bit as well, but it's perdy, so there.

Ok, so fitting with the new look of the blog, I think now is a good time to talk about the new Sara Rue Jenny Craig commercial. I tried to find a YouTube vid of it, but had no luck. Basically, the commercial starts out talking about how it's not normal to not have pants that fit properly, or to refuse to leave the house because she "doesn't feel comfortable in her own skin". She's close to tears, and it's really kind of upsetting. Then the camera cuts away and there's skinny new Sara Rue! She's skinny now, and wearing skinny jeans! It's all because of Jenny Craig and she wants to thank them for putting a smile back on her face, and also she thinks it would be a good idea if you gave Jenny Craig some money.

It's Alive! Also, More Babies Talk.

Yeah, I've been inactive for a loooooong ass time. I'm aware. I promise I haven't stopped having loud opinions about stuff. I'm an English major. It's what I do. I've had some shit going down in my personal life (moving, vacations, weddings of friends, quitting my job leading to funemployment in my future), so I've been less concerned with telling the world what I think about it and more concerned with "Sweet Jeebus how am I going to pay my bills etc".

I'm crawling up out of the slime of anonymity and into a conversation you might be surprised by if you know me well. It is a conversation about children. Children and their place in public spaces.

Boring AND Offensive! The Best of Both Worlds (AKA A review of Robin Hood)

SPOILER WARNING so don't complain to me later.

So I went to see Robin Hood last weekend. And I complained about it to some people in real life. Then I remembered that I have this space on the nets where I can complain and people can either choose to read it or not and they don't have to just listen to me for the sake of our real life relationship. So now I'm going to blog about how much I hated this movie and it was slow and dumb and I just wanted to go home and play with my dog. Really it's more of a set of vague impressions of how much I hated this film than an in-depth review because it's been about a week since I saw it, and all that's still in my head are these complaints.

The Truth About My Sads

So the other day on the bus home from work, I unintentionally spilled my guts all over a co-worker. I am not talking about barfing here. I am talking about talking too much, and maybe too truthfully.

"Real" Bisexuality

So, I have thought alot about the common idea of "real" bisexuality, and who is or isn't really bisexual. When that damn Katy Perry song came out, I was frustrated as shit. My queer friends and I complained about "party lesbians" as we called them. Girls that only make out with other girls for male attention. Recently I've come to re-think my position about the "sometimes lesbian" (although not necessarily the action of wearing ANY kind of sexuality only to titillate men; more on this later in the post).

Customer Service Work SUCKS.

So today I am blogging about yet another thing that is close to my heart. And that is the fact that retail jobs are shit. I work in customer service, food service to be exact. I like most of what goes down at my job. I like making food from scratch, and I like working on a very strictly regimented daily schedule. I like my coworkers and for the most part I even enjoy interacting with customers. But among the many shitty things about working retail (shitty pay, shift work, no benefits, lack of job security), there is one thing that is inescapable. You know what that thing is. Say it with me. ASSHOLES.