Rants

Thoughts on having a girl.

September 7, 2011

When I found out I was pregnant, I confided to a good friend that I hoped the baby was a boy, but I was sure it would be a girl. Because I had been cursed. You know, The Curse. The one your mother spits at you in a moment of extreme frustration: “Someday you will [...]

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The wisdom of Mad Men.

April 20, 2011

I was watching the last season of Mad Men on DVD and one of the characters dropped a pithy truth about advertising. Something along the lines of “it’s all about what I want versus what is expected of me.” The phrase stuck in my head and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Partly because [...]

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Why I hate princesses.

January 21, 2011

For some reason, I have it in my head that our baby is most likely a girl. Which means I’m tossing around lots of girl names and scheming about how to avoid the explosion of pink that inevitably happens after a girl is born. But what I’m really thinking about is how to delay, for [...]

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