kate rothwell

It's not quite on the scale of asking the interwebs whether or not I should have children -- but I've been collecting hair opinions on twitter. In about 20 minutes, I'm getting a hair cut. Lots of them cut har, har. I don't have strong opinions because I don't look at myself and I don't spend hours messing with my hair. It's nice that other people do have opinions that they're sharing. I feel less invisible. Here's the thing: my hair hasn't failed me . Boobs, bod, face, they're all heading south, literally. The metabolism has ground to a halt--all that weight I lost? Every pound has come back, hello. The hair has some grey in it, but I don't mind that. I still have a lot of it, it's thick, it grows the way its supposed to. Curse you for your inevitable betrayal, body. Thank you for hanging on, hair. Which of the two do I want to chop bits off of? Not the agreeable, obligingly curling one. But of course the other isn't up for ch...

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I must be in a mellow mood because I'm enjoying nearly every book I pick up. Here is my favorite: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. I listened to it and the reader was pretty good. She didn't intrude so we got the story without extra drama. It's a peculiar mix of styles, deep third point of view, then some unnamed person's report of Frankie along with what had to be footnotes explaining references. I noticed some people over at Amazon objected to the interruption of the story with the notes from some omniscient story teller, not to mention the notes from whoever had written the reports. I wish I had a print copy--I bet it would be easier to know where we are with the story. It didn't bother me. In fact it was a nice change from the standard deep third all the way. The story was full of rich kids at a boarding school. For once I believed it. These were really the rich kids I've met (I went to private school in DC and there were some of these peopl...

PROS: He -- brings me coffee every morning is the father of my kids. has the only steady income in the family has health insurance too makes me laugh nearly every day is smart has a runner's body, if you know what I mean and I think you do is often my best friend and has been almost 28 years. CONS: He -- won't let me get a cat. Well. He might well let me get one, but it can't live with him. * * * I'll get back to you on what I decide. I really want a cat.

Q: What did you get from this conference, Kate? Anything worth sharing? A: Jennifer Fusco is amazing. Jessica Andersen and Jennifer Fusco are a perfect team. Eloisa James still does a good keynote, although she did end with a standard/traditional note after avoiding the heck out of that for most of the rest of the speech. Sarah from Smart Bitches is funny, even after all these years. It's only right and proper that Toni won the Ipad though I wanted that baby, bad. CTRWA does a fine lil conference. Q: What about the industry? What about trends yadayayada? Anything useful? A: Not that I can recall. Except don't mix your professional and personal and lay off the whining. Q: Was it as bad as you'd expected? A: Naw, it never is. But I don't want to do that again. Until the next time. Oh, GOD. RWA is soon. No, I can't bear it, no, no, n--whoops, that's not whining. Q: Any advice? A: Don't bother pitching for yourself. have Corrina Lawson do it for you.

this showed up in my email with subject line "Assignment" after some major arm-twisting. Andrew D. MOTH 1000 Professor Rothwell 5/8/2011 The Psychological Effects of Mother’s Day on Vicenarian Males Once again Mother’s Day has rolled around, and just in time for most young men to finish their semesters at college and come home. Just in time for tired young men, scourged by the merciless lashes of academia, to return home simply wanting a time of rest and recuperation, a break from the vicissitudes and troubles of scholastic life. Alas, for many such youths, men just beginning to spread open their buds to the radiance of adult life, no such time of rest awaits them. Instead, they return home, and realize that some arbitrary power has declared that their first weekend home, when they should be doing nothing more than sleeping, eating, and watching tv on the couch, a holiday dedicated to those who squirted them into this troublesome world. Such young men ge...

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