http://awkwardlysocial.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:54:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wouldn't necessarily say I'm having "trouble" getting pregnant.  I mean, I'm not pregnant, but it's not really that much trouble.  And for some reason I get really irritable when I have to say, "I'm trying to get pregnant."  Because that makes me feel like a failure.  There is no ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1579 Astute readers will have noticed the "Life List" tab that I snuck into the tab bar above.  I didn't write about writing it, because it's still very much a work in progress.  Also, I feel slightly like I did in junior high when the cool girls in the grade above ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1578 Jezebel is one of my favorite sites, and after this headline "Meg Whitman is a Bad Mother," I'm furious.  I don't like Meg Whitman.  I don't believe she is the right person to run California.   Let's reinforce the patriarchy and attack a woman with grown children on her "mothering" skills.  ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1577 I want to say hi to all the readers coming from Kristin, my dear friend, someone who has always inspired me to be more honest and say what I'm really feeling.  I am fortunate to have met someone like her, no matter how hard I tried to ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1575 It's Friday the 13th, I almost stepped on a rat on the way to the City Hall, and as it turns out City Hall and The Courthouse aren't the same thing!  But, as my muppet friends will tell you, somebody's getting married! http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1573 1. To the seaweed sample lady at Wholefoods: when I said I love seaweed, but didn't want to try any right then? And then you pressed and I had to tell you that, no really, I'm not eating seaweed right now and then, you stood there and sort of stared ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1570 Summer has finally arrived in Los Angeles.  This morning as I walked out into the muggy, rain speckled morning, and felt the weight of the air, I flashed to summers spent in the mid-west, playing cards in the basement with my sister and cousin, riding bikes to the corner store ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1564 When you check in at the House Ear Clinic, there is a sign that basically says, "Look, we know you're here because you're having some ear problems, let us know if you need us to come tap you on the shoulder when we call your name, because you very well ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1562 We were waiting for our dangerous garage door of death to make its rickety rise open, when a bug landed on my arm.  I yelped and almost smashed it, but looked down and saw a heavily spotted ladybug. "Make a wish!" I did and I'll let you know if it comes true. I've ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1561 I'm reading a slightly embarrassing self-help book for writers called Walking on Alligators.  In it there are daily (hourly?) meditations on writing and strategies on how to get your ass into the chair and write.  One of the strategies is to look at oneself and the demons you keep in ... http://awkwardlysocial.com/?p=1560