hysterium category archives
japanese women use cloth pads too!
Thursday 10 April 2008 | I like a cookie
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one reason why I love my lunette
Saturday 15 December 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
(A post in which she bravely blogs about her menstrual cup! Although that phrase was difficult to type, thinking of all the various former others who might read it. Oh well, it’s rather too late to care what they think now.) So about three months ago, I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of €35 (and [...]
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just in (moon) time
Tuesday 11 December 2007 | someone left a cookie
Now I can only begin to imagine, for readers to whom I am already freakish beyond belief, how bizarre my cloth pad obsession (of six months’ standing) appears. Boy I have been reading way too much student writing because I can evidently no longer be trusted with a multi-clause sentence. Anyway, I know how weird [...]
friday refrains · mysterious vinyl, part II
Friday 9 November 2007 | I like a cookie
Who are the people who collect such things; and how can I meet and become friends with them? Here we find such marvels as The Handless Organist; Devastatin’ Dave; and of course, who could ever forget, having once seen…Heino. I swear I recognize some of the Xian-family albums from my demented fundamentalist childhood. But I [...]
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horribly moving to-do list
Sunday 21 October 2007 | someone left a cookie
Well, it’s moving to me; or anyway it’s certainly horrible. But I should explain. So once, long ago, when I was still reviewing movies for the Alt Weekly, I received a press release which referred to its dull-sounding, badly made indie film as being “horribly moving.” The Brujo and I have been joking relentlessly about [...]
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trying to catch up an old college friend
Friday 21 September 2007 | 4 cookies in the jar
It’s always revelatory to me to see what I leave out, what I choose to include. Maybe not so engrossing for my readers, but here’s the illustrated précis anyway (with most as thumbnails cos I got carried away uploading pictures). And now I betake me back to bed, where the menstrual faeries are slowly and [...]
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yet what prodigious mowing we did make
Saturday 28 July 2007 | I like a cookie
Finally, I overdid it. Finally. After days of boxes and boards and sticks and sawing and raking and putting down contact paper and shoving things in closets. It took yesterday morning’s second lawn assault, one week after the first, but I did eventually manage to wear myself out completely. (Though I am pleased to note [...]
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four more cloth pads later
Tuesday 3 July 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar
These ones from Mimi’s Dreams, in the following patterns. Fortunately they’re only $2.50 or $3.75, depending on their length. I guess if the Evil Twin has to have an addiction, there could be worse ones. Also, another half-dozen bonbons have somehow mysteriously disappeared. But…an hour on the phone to Boston has also cleared up most [...]
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shameless acts of bribery
Monday 2 July 2007 | someone left a cookie
In order to get myself to work at all on the Dying Book, it’s become necessary to buy off my Evil Twin. And the bitch is no cheap date, let me tell you. Before she’d even so much as open the new hundred-page document from editorial, she insisted that I buy her the cardamom foot [...]
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but then too, things you like
Tuesday 26 June 2007 | someone left a cookie
1. Finding out that a lot of treats you already buy (Reed’s Premium Ginger Beer, Wild Oats apricot preserves, Trader Joe’s apple raspberry sauce) do not have any cane sugar in them at all. 2. Rereading and marveling over Lydia Davis’ book of short fiction/prose poems, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, because for some reason unknown [...]
