If I’m in bed and have a sheet to cover me, Jeong has a sheet and a blanket. If I have a sheet and blanket, she has a sheet, a blanket, and a duvet. If I have a sheet and two blankets, she has a sheet, two blankets, and a duvet. She believes that this is a competition and that she’s winning.

I have spent decades in research, doing study after study, trial after trial, and have come to the unrefutable conclusion that the most perfect food is ice cream. Despite this conclusion, I will continue to conduct research. Science, after all, requires reaffirmation of previous research findings.

Are there any books that provide a good overview of Black feminist thought/work?

A Christmas wish.

• Jeong: "André and R are both smart."
• Me: "Yes, they are."
• Jeong: "Children always get their smarts from their mothers."
• Me:
• Jeong: "It's scientifically proven."
• Me:
• Jeong:
• Me:

Mid-morning Confessions:

For several months (maybe many?) back in 1981, I loved singing Red Rider’s big hit:

Let me take French,
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings

The song rocked even if I couldn’t make sense of the lyrics.

The first rule of Dunning-Kruger Club is you don't know you're in Dunning-Kruger Club.

Halloween Costume Ideas:

Christmas tree destroyed by cats

Malibu Karen Barbie

Trailer Trash Klingon

Predator Garbage Collector

• Right wing men: “Women need men because we’re strong we can protect them during storms.”
• Everyone else: “What you’re saying is that you’d rather be useful than to be kind and caring.”
• Right wing men: “I don’t need to be kind or caring. I’m useful, and I need someone to make me sammiches!”

• Right wing men: “Women need men because we can change an alternator.”
• Everyone else: “You do know that women can just go to mechanics. What women want is someone who is kind and caring.”

Halloween Costumes:

Jeffrey Dahmer: FDA Meat Inspector

Rasputin: Trump
Political Consultant

Jason Voorhees: Relationship Counselor

Halloween Display I’d like to see:

Rosemary’s Baby’s Gender Reveal

I think it would be great if someone edited an anthology about Freedom. Basically having various SF/F authors exploring the concept in different ways: political, cultural, religious, social, etc.

Costume Ideas:

Little Zombie on the Prairie

Great American Bake Off: Xenomorph Edition

Dracula: Walmart Employee

Professional Wolfman Wrestling

a white cat is wearing bunny ears and standing on its hind legs . ALT: a white cat is wearing bunny ears and standing on its hind legs .

Why, yes, it is I!

• Me to Luna (a cat): “You’ve been throwing up a lot. Should I be calling you Yarkimedes?”
• Luna: “Your humor, like your personality, has the buoyancy of lead.”
• Me: “Ooh! Low blow!”
• Luna: “I could go lower, but you’ve already sunk among the infinitesimals.”

A lot of men depict women as helpless and therefore needing a man to take care of here. These same men also opine that they need a woman to make them sandwiches because they don't know how to feed themselves.

patriciadeanna: “Misinformation? Media literacy. Culture wars? Anthropology. Dog Whistles? Communications. Historical amnesia? Humanities and art history. Mass behavior? Psychology. Tell me again which degrees are ‘worthless.’ If the social sciences were really ‘worthless,’ your timeline wouldn’t collapse every time context walks into the room. And don’t get me started on Cultural studies (African, Women’s, Latin American, Native American, Asian American, African-American, etc.)”

Have you noticed that there’s no female loneliness epidemic? Maybe think on that for a couple of weeks.

Person A: “Single women that live alone with no boyfriend and husband, how do you survive?” Person B: “It’s not easy living alone. No man to open jars, plug in my charger, or explain how the TV remote works. I mostly wander the house in confusion, waiting for divine masculine intervention. Sometimes I drive myself places, but only when the moon is right, and I feel brave.”

You know, I never feel fat, not really. I’ve always felt just like me. But then I put my hands on my belly, and I, well, feel fat, technically speaking. And then I tell myself, “Nope! Not making that mistake again!”

• Jeong, sighing: “It’s so difficult being the only adult in this house.”
• Me, taken aback: “You do know that your father, myself, and the kids are all adults, right?”
• Jeong: “You’re so cute when you think you’re making any sense.”