This is truly becoming quite a thing! I really feel like I've earned it though - Today was my last exam of a really difficult semester, and I've got the first "break" weekend I've had in probably 6 or 7 weeks.

I hear that. I've been about a 14/16 most of my adult life and being on the borderline of standard and plus sizes has made shopping incredibly difficult. Standard sizes generally aren't cut to fit me (I'm 5'9" too) and plus stuff, even if it does fit me (and it doesn't because I've barely got a B-cup), it's always…

"Seriously, if you get ten plus-size women together in a room, eleven of us will be wearing the same dress. And if plus-size women "age out" of Torrid (here's a hard truth: one can only wear pilly pin-up dresses festooned with skulls and cherries so far into one's 30s), our only option is to "age into" Lane Bryant."

My parents busted ass to get me Backstreet Boys tickets back in 97 or 98 when I was a tween. They had to get 'em scalped from the newspaper classifieds (!!) and they had to pay a friggin' fortune but they did it. Yeah, it's superficial, yeah, it's just teen girl squealing, but at the time, it meant SO MUCH to me.…

Oh fuck off, I'm a fantastic housekeeper. Things suffer around exam time, except when I'm REALLY avoiding studying/writing, because then BOY HOWDY is my house sparkling.

but could they find a fart in a jacuzzi?

Any goddamn colour you want, babe. Kick beauty hegemony right in the FACE. But if you want to play it really safe, black/silver/dark blue are usually good.

Pfft. Amateurs.

Also met my fiance on OKC, and a partner I dated for 3+ years before him, who was a great guy, just not for me in the long term.

Here's hoping it's a shitload better than I look right now - hungover, dead-eyed and frantically trying to finish (read: flagrantly procrastinating on) a final paper. Fingers crossed!

I'm in the position of being both engaged and attempting to lose weight - unfortuantely, the discourse surrounding my current eating habits (which, while modelled on South Beach, aren't terribly restrictive OR insufficient) is all about how I'm trying to lose weight for my wedding. Uh, no, fuck you. I'm trying to lose…

Yeah, isn't that basically textbook internalization of patriarchy?

It's a pretty ubiquitous thought experiment that gets taught in first year Philosophy courses.

Ahyup. I find him fairly entertaining but largely insufferable. I took a masculinity studies class, and my prof had us do a textual analysis of Kitchen Confidential, and boy was it ripe.

She's completely open about it, and terms like transgender/transsexual do not have concrete semantics, they are largely couched in the discourse of personal identity. "Transgender' is often used as a catch-all term when someone has not made another preference of label clear and is generally acceptable if a trans*…

I don't understand why flying has to be so unpleasant! Just let me have the fucking bottle, ey?

Huh. I flew KLM to Amsterdam and back, and it was bar none the best flying experience I have ever had. Flew coach, had a hot lavender towel after takeoff and before landing, and the food was all weirdly palatable. Seats were pretty comfy, flight attendents were nice, smooth delivery of baggage at the respective…

True fax. And a tremendously kind and gracious person.

I'm taking the stand in defence of the fence

This is sort of a wake-up call for me. The SECOND I moved out of my parents' house five years ago, I became an absolute neat freak. It's made living with roommates and partners really difficult; more so with partners. I grew up with a "do-it-all" mom who was often huffy and resentful, but nothing anyone else did…