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Category Archives: tales of an accidental feminist

apple and tree (or, awesome things my daughter and I said within an hour of each other)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Bassie, on why she can’t climb across a particularly precarious section of playground equipment: “I need more gravity”. (p.s. this is how I will hitherto forward refer to weight in any context, e.g. “I have so much more gravity after eating that entire French Silk Pie!” Me, to yosefblog, on why I have the right [...]

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…and I’m the crazy one.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

So I need to go to the bathroom at the Jewel. I walk down the little corridor to the bathroom door. I find the usual cart full of restocks in front of the bathroom door, as well as the sound of a fan coming from the bathroom. Hmm, I think, that may likely indicate that [...]

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co-ed sleepover

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

I don’t think I’ve had one since Prom, but I had one Friday night. Or rather, it was called a “sleepover”, but really we all just hung out until 5:30 in the morning, then half of us passed out and the other half cleaned up and went home. Conclusion: Positives– Any sexual tension has already [...]

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the yosefblog abides

Thursday, May 8, 2008

The 45 second walk from your hall duty in the A building to your Department Coordinator’s office in the C Building is the longest 45 seconds of your life iff (that is spelled correctly, for those who don’t know elementary logic) you are greeted by said Coordinator with the words: “Your father is on the [...]

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what not to watch

Friday, April 25, 2008

Evanston Athletic Club has, like any respectable athletic club, televisions mounted to the front of their cardio machines. Although their lack of a DVR that would allow me to watch my choice of programming is a serious design flaw, they do have cable, and I can usually find something to watch for 45 minutes. In [...]

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a second in what appears to be a series of suburban mother rants

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Um, okay. How do I explain this? When you make my latte without foam, and I get up the nerve to point this out to you, which is very out of character for me and I hate doing, but which my friend who works at Starbucks has encouraged me to to in order to provide [...]

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certain notes on the use of reusable shopping bags

Monday, April 14, 2008

First of all, let it be known that I am not an active environmentalist. I don’t compost; I don’t go out of my way to recycle the glass that my landlord refuses to put in our regular recycling; I don’t take fast showers. But I am an environmental pragmatist. If aiding the environment is made [...]

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“isn’t that something that old people get?”

Friday, April 11, 2008

A thirty year old woman should not approach a colonoscopy like one approaches a yearly teeth cleaning. Next thing you know, It’ll be all “Doesn’t everyone have an enlarged prostate?” and “Time for my monthly blood letting…”

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happy birthday, dina.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

My good friend recently wrote a very insightful post about bratz, and, shocked as I am to be disagreeing with her, I’m going to have to go out on a limb on this one and say that… those things are f-ing vile! Are they 21 year old hookers? 8 year old nymphets? 90 year old [...]

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a cautionary tale…

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

…to those women who have cultivated the habit of taking food or drink from their husband’s plate/glass without asking first: It started as a normal interaction. I had put my antibiotic in my mouth, and didn’t want to walk to the kitchen to get a drink of water to swig it down with. Yosef had [...]

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