artfulcodger
Artful Codger
artfulcodger

I did 26 months, and I'm in total agreement, about the "port in her heart" and about chemo being the lesser of two evils.

But... but... so many of people have died!

Hey now, water is AWESOME.

Hodgkin's has an insanely high cure rate with a moderate course of chemo.

Hodgkin's has an insanely high cure rate with a moderate course of chemo.

And it's fucking Hodgkin's. A cancer with one of the highest success rates for treatment, a short chemo protocol, and one that avoids the really terrifying drugs. Jesus.

The Maritimes are a gentler, more human place.

Discrimination is not okay. Cartoons are not discrimination.

Fair enough, but that cake looks like a melting wax sculpture. Of someone else. Not the divine Dame Maggie.

Even her official portrait in the National Portrait Gallery is better, the one Jezebel summed up as "annoyed zombie".

That's so interesting- of course they would have local "spares", but I've never heard of it before. It's kind of stunning to me that they do a "weeding out" process since some of the people who get through are not... camera ready, shall we say, but I guess the people who don't get through are quite something!
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I've been doing the Jeopardy test for years- these stories are making my morning. Congrats on making it onto the show!

I watched Up in theatre while I was engaged and newly diagnosed with cancer, all chemoed up, with my head full of thoughts of infertility, death, and what it would all mean to my wonderful fiance. The first ten minutes were murder. I still have trouble with it.

I would bet it's also correlated with a decline in women entering religious orders- certainly where I live, there used to be tons of nuns. Because before birth control, why not choose that path and have a respectable single life when your older sister is burnt out with 8 kids by age 30?

This is a huge worry for me. I have a 20-month-old and I'm going to have a second kid, and we'll be moving from the city to the suburbs. I'm so anxious about feeling like an awkward 14-year-old looking for a spot in the cafeteria.

I don't think that's her point, though- that her books are "high brow"- but that simply by being men, certain writers are given leeway to write genre when they feel like it and be praised for that (or shun the romance genre label as "beneath them", à la Sparks). Men and women writing about families or love have their

Cumberbitches preemptively cut off his wedding ring hand... and took the rest of the arm as a warning.