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Convo with the Ogre
Relevant to my post about not being able to do math. (The Ogre, by the way, is my boyfriend/partner/engaged-to-be-engaged-almost-someday-fiancé. We eat muffins and watch 90s movies together.) Me: I’m terrified about starting school on Monday. What if I suck? Him: You won’t suck. Me: But I’m taking Economics. I’m terrible at numbers and math…
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On remembering pain
A while back I had a brush with death. I think I probably did; it involved some deadly poisons in safe doses, but my body is weird and reacts to things differently, very often. Anyway, I got through it. Still here, alive and…well, alive, anyway. My experience with the poisons and the almost-dying led to…
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Canada, your outrage is severely misplaced
Liberal swearing ahead. Moreso than usual. Recently our esteemed government saw fit to reward Justin Bieber with a Diamond Jubilee Medal. Canada is outraged at this. The outrage seems to be of two camps: one, that Bieber received such an important medal. The medal is actually a large joke, but hey, Canadians are nothing if…
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Thomas King, Vancouver Poetry Slam, and my health
The past four or five days have been interesting. I had an adverse reaction to some belladonna applied topically on Thursday night, and since then the ache in my left shoulder has intensified to the point of my arm being pretty much out of commission. Advil helps, but there’s still pain. I plan on seeing…
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Signs you may be a witch
You can grow mushrooms without even trying. Or possibly signs that Katje is terrible at gardening. Six of one…. Signs Katje should not be allowed near Photobucket’s editing program: this post. Does anyone know what kind of mushrooms these are? Or if this is a sign that I’m killing my herbs? I love hearing…
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#ziewrites — a new hashtag for genderqueer writers
If you’ve been following my Twitter account for the past week or so you may have noticed that I’ve started using #ziewrites on some of my posts about writing. This is sort of a response to the hashtag (and website) #shewrites — which I think is awesome. I think there should absolutely be ways for…
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Advertising — yes, I’m hosting it
You may have noticed, if you visit this site without adblock activated, that I have started hosting ads in the far right column. I did this via Project Wonderful, because I’d heard good things about them (and several webcomics that I read/have read over the years use them for advertising). I can now add to…
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My mother-in-law’s cats
My mother-in-law — well, bonus mom, ’cause she’s not technically an in-law yet — has two cats. Xander and Willow. (The names are a coincidence. I swear.) Willow is a pretty mellow ginger kitty who has set himself up as my NaNoWriMo mascot. By which I mean he likes to sleep on the back of…
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I’m classy; I drink my whiskey from crystal glasses
Tonight I cracked open my bottle of Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey Whiskey. I’m sure you can guess why. Side note, the irony is delicious.
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Galactica is trying to murder me
She knows I’m a Cylon. Galactica is my 1987 Volvo Station Wagon. She’s a good ship, but then she does shit like try to kill me and I feel like beating her with a hammer. Or calling up Aaron Douglas and screaming “WHY WON’T YOU MAKE MY BIRDS FLY? I need my birds to fly!”…