One sentential link

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I’m going to steal from Kelly’s playbook for a moment today, because you simply must read this post:

Organised religion is perfectly fine as a concept, but as soon as you start including people in it, it all goes to shite.

Looking for readers (again)

So I seriously want to get to work on trying to whip that NaNoWriMo manuscript into shape. Thanks to the people who read the short excerpt for me a while back...now I'm looking for people willing to read the whole darn thing and give some general feedback as to what (if anything) in this thing is worth keeping!

Let me know if you can. I have the whole thing uploaded to google docs, so I can just invite you to be a reader (or email it if you prefer). Thanks!

Augh…

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This day just keeps kicking my butt.

I could write a long missive about the state of health care in this country, but I won’t. What I will say is this…it’s embarrassing when a 32-year-old woman is reduced to tears because the nurse tells her she’s going to have to come in for a physical before she can get her allergy medicine refilled.

“Um, how much will that visit cost?” she whimpers.

The story has a semi-happy ending, though…after being put on hold a number of times, I was told I could come in to pick up some samples to get me through until my visit on July 13, and that my visit would be billed as a follow-up instead of as a physical.

Sigh.

Then I tried to go to Caffe Aroma on Main Street, which alas, has closed. In its place, coming soon, is “Sea Bar!” Whatever that is. Grr.

So I’m at Starbucks (grr) paying for an hour of wireless access (GRRR) so that I can write this blog post.

I could have gone home and written it for free, except it’s hot. When’s it going to rain, anyway? It looked like it was going to rain earlier today, except, um, not. It got so windy that my basil plant blew off the windowsill.

Whine, whine, whine.

I’m going to try to accomplish something now. I hope your day is better than mine.

Seven Random Things

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I was tagged by Ensie. Seven random things about me:

1. I’m really short. All the women in my family are short, but I think I’m the shortest. I just crack 5 feet.

2. To date, my longest relationship has lasted 3 years and approximately three months. I’m looking to break that record this October.

3. I slept with a teddy bear well into my adult life.

4. I have weird fingernails. My nail beds are wide, and the nails flatten out when they get long. It looks bizarre, so I keep them short. (I had acrylic nails for a while, in my 20s, but the upkeep got to be both too expensive and too time-consuming for my taste)

5.  I’m pretty low-maintenance, appearance-wise. I wear little (if any) makeup, I hate spending more than 5 minutes on my hair, and I’m not into fashion at all.

6. I have a weakness for sandals. I don’t buy expensive shoes, but my sandal collection is larger than it probably needs to be.

7.  I hate, hate, hate “stepping in wet.” If my socks get wet (by stepping on a wet bath mat, for example), they must be changed immediately. I do everything in my power to avoid this circumstance.

As for tags, I know Samantha likes doing these things. And, well, whoever wants to participate. Leave me a comment if you do!