March 2003 Archives
Recent research from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and published in the January issue of Neuropsychology, suggests that the brains of gay men work like those of heterosexual women, while those of lesbians act more like those of heterosexual men, at least when performing certain neurocognitive tests and other mental tasks generally seen to show a bias toward one gender.
This article, from Monday's Washington Post, details how the conservative movement in America is turning on itself over Iraq; David Frum is accusing Robert Novak and Pat Buchanan of hating America, and Buchanan talks of "collusion" with Israel by the pro-war segment.
Ok... don't you hate it when you subscribe to a low-cost porn site, and they throw in that free couple of weeks of their VIP site, which you then have to remember to specifically and separately cancel in order to avoid being billed $49.95 every freaking month on your credit card?
Hypothetically, of course.
The only entry in my short-lived first attempt to maintain an online journal, nearly a year ago, that evoked any response at all was the entry about Stephen Lynch, a very cute, extremely funny comedian and musician. It generated nearly 50 responses.
I was just looking at my email from the Birchmere, a fantastic music club in Alexandria, Virginia, and it turns out that Stephen will be performing there on April 11. Must remember to get tickets.
Wow... this (also from The New York Review of Books, but the April 10, 2003 edition) is very provocative, especially given that his former agency is the one for which I currently work. I so understand where he's coming from, though. Transcript and audio file from NPR's All Things Considered.
And, given the current political climate of questioning the patriotism or trustworthiness of anyone who speaks out against the war or the policies of this administration—or who even asks questions (viz. Courtland Milloy's column in Monday's Washington Post)—it feels like a subversive and almost politically dangerous (at least as far as how superiors at work might respond) act for me to even post a link to it and admit that I feel much the same way.
Norman Mailer on Bush, America, Iraq and the war (The New York Review of Books feature article, March 27, 2003), based on Mailer's February 20 speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
This (Washingtonpost.com) article caught my attention, probably because I'm a relatively new federal employee myself. More than a third of the federal employees polled in a recent survey indicated that they were considering leaving their jobs (only half of those through retirement within the next three years).
Wow. Ok, so it's been 10-1/2 months since I stopped writing in this journal, after less than a month of doing so. As I noted in my very first posting, that's a pretty typical pattern of behavior for me.
So, back then I was:
- in my eighth month of unemployment;
- just beginning the process of being tested as a potential kidney donor for my father;
- dealing with a dead refrigerator, computer monitor, and expensive car troubles;
- and single.
Just finished reading Jasper Fforde's wonderful first novel The Eyre Affair (logged in Bookcrossing with BCID 025-608734).
Have been exchanging emails since yesterday with the blogster responsible for Synaptic Discharge, a fellow Arlingtonian who came across my journal in the listing of GLBT Weblogs and Journals at hitormiss.org.
