Sunday, December 28, 2008
We love to play the “grass is always greener” game when staring at other women. We imagine that the willowy size four must be perfectly content with her body and never get caught in the trap of body self-hatred, but a study in England has found that as a group, women who are U.K. size […]
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
One of my favorite memories of Christmas Eve was my sister and I blowing through a gigantic pack of colored construction paper. I cut long strips out of green and red sheets and then together we used Elmer’s glue to construct a seventy-five foot paper chain. I still remember our glee when we realized that […]
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Sometimes, I have fugue fantasies. I randomly pick a city on Craigslist and start looking for apartments. It’s a stupid reaction and I can always tell that things have gotten overly stressful, that something is so blessedly and wholeheartedly wrong with my life that there’s a big giant alarm going off with a spinning red […]
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Friday, December 12, 2008
We’ve regularly discussed the lack of decent plus-size clothing in the fashion world, but why is that? One customer service person at Macy’s told a shopper that the store didn’t carry plus-size upscale clothing because their upscale clientele was thin, and if she wanted upscale plus-size clothes, she should go to a Macy’s in another […]
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Monday, November 24, 2008
At some point I will update and do a Chicago entry (we ate at Alinea! it was really really good! we dressed up and acted stupid, also really good! lesson learned: do not wear PVC gloves when trying to pick up frosty glasses with condensation on them) and also something about my trip to LA […]
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Thank you very much for all of your condolences. Your comments and personal e-mails have touched and comforted me more than you can possibly know. I’m trying to respond to the e-mails individually, but it’s still pretty difficult to think about too much. Please know, however, that it is times like this where I am […]
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
On Saturday morning, I woke up and started sobbing, because for some reason, I well and truly believed that my cat Tilly hadn’t been hiding for the last twelve hours, but rather that she had crawled into some dark place in the basement and died. You see, she hadn’t been acting entirely right and had […]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Sometimes I’m afraid. I admit it. I’m afraid of the reality of size, about the idea that on buses, my ass overhangs the little dimple in the pre-molded seat. I’m afraid of chairs that don’t look sturdy enough. I have amazing thigh muscles from the careful lowering of my girth down onto precarious little Barbie […]
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
It’s weird: school started and I keep feeling like it started without me. I’m still on the brink, not really able to decide whether I’m going to go back this spring or next fall. My school e-mail is still active and I’m on all of the distribution lists and helping with the project, but at […]
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
A bunch more things have happened since the last entry thingy here. Of course. Like you were sitting on the edge of your seat thinking “Oh no! Weetabix must have a very boring life right now because she’s not updating!” If there’s still anyone reading, anyway! Hi! I suck. July had Esteban’s yearly Men’s Camping […]
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