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Aug. 8th, 2005 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
constanceOkay, I just wrote three paragraphs about how much I loathe Jane Pratt, editor of Jane and erstwhile editor of Sassy, and how happy I am that she is retiring (and I say this as someone who does not actually care about Jane one way or the other but just wants no news of Jane Pratt ever again); and this segued into another three-paragraph diatribe against Elizabeth Wurtzel and Ayelet Waldman, who I hate for exactly the same reasons as I hate Ms. Pratt, and all their whiny self-indulgent obtuseness-disguised-as-insight, and how as a group they give women writers a bad name, and that as much as I want to respect their achievements, I just can't because--oops, okay, that's enough of that, damn it.
I'm trying to say that I realized how crazy I sounded--and just look how well I succeeded in conveying that revelation--and so I erased all six paragraphs, and will be taking down the Shrine of Spleen when I get home, and will instead just say that there's no word yet on whether we'll have to be tested for tuberculosis. After a weekend during which we increasingly relaxed as we didn't get any worrying news, we are all back to biting our nails again.
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Also I should mention that despite everything I may have said to the contrary, and I may have said lots to the contrary, I may be getting another dog.
I may not, though.
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Also also, a thing which just entirely delighted me.
I'm trying to say that I realized how crazy I sounded--and just look how well I succeeded in conveying that revelation--and so I erased all six paragraphs, and will be taking down the Shrine of Spleen when I get home, and will instead just say that there's no word yet on whether we'll have to be tested for tuberculosis. After a weekend during which we increasingly relaxed as we didn't get any worrying news, we are all back to biting our nails again.
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Also I should mention that despite everything I may have said to the contrary, and I may have said lots to the contrary, I may be getting another dog.
I may not, though.
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Also also, a thing which just entirely delighted me.
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Date: 2005-08-08 09:49 pm (UTC)I hope you are not consumptive!
Also, OMG dog?!?!?
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Date: 2005-08-09 02:43 am (UTC)I probably am not. Rumor got a little crazy today (one of several floating around was that the person we suspect has it made the whole thing up, which whatever. I am just waiting to hear what to do next.
Dog, yes! One of my coworkers has a family member moving in who's allergic to dogs, and they're going to see if they can keep her, but I am standing by should the allergies cause trouble. Because, you see, I am a pushover.
It is a very cute dog, though. Little! I have never had a little dog of my very own before! I never thought I'd have one!