All of these questions come from emails people have sent me. Mostly from strangers and two from people I know. There is an average of 53 people who read the blog per day and I post 6.2 times per week. At present, there are daily readers in the US, Russia, Spain, Germany (mostly due to the DAS part of the blog title), England, Italy, France, Sweden, Australia and Canada. I save all the questions for this posting - something I used to do with my old blogs. You write questions and I answer them, no matter what they are. Some questions can't be answered because they're stupid, but I try.
1. How is the exercise going? Are you joining the Navy?
Uh, no. Well, first... After almost two weeks of an upper respiratory "thing," I was finally able to get back in the pool and resume my workout regime. Of all the things to muck up in my body, my lungs are essential to my long term recovery plans. I do well over an hour of cardio every day and when the breathing is labored it makes it incredibly difficult to finish. This is especially true for the swimming. I only get a moment every other stroke to take in air and when that's blocked I tend to panic. I thrash about and I look more like someone drowning in three feet of water than someone burning fat. Though trashing is good anaerobic activity. The lung thing won't go away but it's getting better.
Second: No. I'm not joining the Navy. I'm forty! I am doing the Navy Seal WORKOUT only. Not with the intention of joining the Navy. The workout is laid out at the Navy Seal website. I think I should point out that my shoulders are garbage so I am doing a series of exercises (also laid out on the Navy Seal website) which are designed for strengthening the shoulder muscles before you start their workout. When I feel my shoulders are strong enough I will continue with the normal Navy Seal workout. Also, it's worth noting that I am not doing the full workout as I am not 19 years old. Just a modified version which is still really tough. It's lots and lots and lots and lots of reps. I finally started to lose weight. I'm down ten pounds. GO me!
2. Sorry to hear about Grad school. Are you going to apply again?
I'm not sure. I think I would just like to teach writing and presently there is a position at a local community college where I would be working with people who need help with their writing. It's not as glorious as "professor," but I'm not seeking glory at this point. I just need a job. Well, I need money, but a job is how you get money. That said, I need to go to Europe more than I want to go to Europe. I have some leg issues which require immediate attention. Right now I walk around in intense pain and I need a surgery to make that pain go away. Europe offers that surgery and America does not. Well it does, but it costs a whole lot more.
3. Do you ever feel bad about what you write about people?
I don't. It took a long time to be honest with my writing. In the past I spent a lot of time editing things or avoiding things just so I wouldn't hurt people's feelings. But the writing was a lie, it wasn't genuine and therefore I didn't care for it much. When I tell the truth in my writing it's much more satisfying and in some ways cathartic. This has been especially true for the nutty people I was trying not to offend; now I just don't worry about whether it hurts their feelings or not. They are going to be offended no matter what I write. Cause their nutty. It's in their nature to find a way to be offended by what you write even if it isn't about them. So if I am going to be punished anyway, might as well be the truth. As for any other comments which may hurt people's feelings. Well, I shouldn't have titled that one post about the kid at the gym who keeps glaring at me, "CORKY" but other than that, I'm okay with my work. I'm pretty sure Kim Kardashian doesn't care what I say about her.
4. You said before that you had no family and but then you say you have all these relatives, so what's the deal? And where is your son? Do you see him? (asked by several people)
I don't care for my family. And for my own sanity I don't associate with them. My mother and brother live together; my birth father and grandparents are dead; and my legal father lives a few hours from my mother and brother. They are all in Washington State and I am willing to give it to them. Much the same way I give other corners of the world to my high profile ex's. I am never going to New Orleans again, nor will you ever find me in Pittsburgh. I just don't like my family, we don't get along with each other. My legal father is the only one who is decent, but we differ strongly on political views and he has taken his ideology to the extreme so I have to just let go of that to prevent hostilities. He loves Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly, need I say more? So, yes. I have family. I even have cousins and stuff, but I don't talk to them either. I haven't seen any of them, or my Aunt in thirty years or my Uncle in twenty five. I have one Aunt I have never met. Ever.
My son is a private matter. I keep his life private for the most part. It's his choice on how we proceed, not mine. I'm not of the mindset held by so many selfish parents who think it's their right to dictate how children live their lives. If he wants to see me, I eagerly await that moment, but it's his choice.
5. Are you dating someone now? What is her name?
I live with a woman who is... ahem... "taken" in the legal sense. So we are cohabitating at the moment. We have been friends for many years and do like each other quite a bit which is to say that we have sex often and share a grocery bill. She offered me a place to stay when I needed one and things just progressed from there. She plays disc golf with me which is a big plus. I won't share her name as I do not share names on my blog if I can help it. Unless they're famous, dead, or have no idea how to take me to court. And if I move to Europe she will go with me. But she's European, which, I think, helps.
6. You're mean and angry a lot. Is there something going on in your life you're not sharing?
I don't share everything about my life in the blog. It's a place for me to write, to work out thoughts in my head or to slander stupid people. I will admit that I tend to let it all go when I write about certain topics, but that's the point. You write what you feel. However, no one is going to care if I write a blog discussing my feelings about cinnamon. I think writers always write about things which they are passionate about first. And there is nothing more passionate than frustration about the things we see in the world around us. If you would like, I will write a post a week where I talk about the wind in the trees, the Methow Valley, and how much I love coffee, peanut butter and Bob Seger.
7. What do all those places have in common? I can't figure it out and it's torturing me. [regarding the list of places I posted called, Kim Kardashian is pregnant and other natural disasters]
I wrote that list for one person in particular. I guess it could apply to anyone but the list, which is just part one of the full list, is for one person. Go visit those places and you'll know how they are all related. It's not some big mystery. I apologize for the cryptic nature of the post. Googling them won't help.
8. Do you know just how fucked up you are?
I do. I am fully aware of just how fucked up I am. I think this gives me insight into just how fucked up everyone else is around me. How does the old adage go, "takes one to know one." Though in this case you are more trying to be insulting rather than making a subjective observation. Further. I know where my fucked upedness stems from and it's very liberating to be so focused. Most people have no idea where theirs comes from or they try to wildly self-diagnose themselves and that just leads to further fucked upedness.
9. What's your deal with fire pits? Do you have one at your house?
I love fire pits. I love the way the fire smells and I am hypnotized by the flames. A lot of great thinking happens around a fire. I don't have a fire pit at my house but a friend of mine who is fond of throwing parties has a backyard with a fire pit. She is aware of my fondness for it and actually prepares it for me before I arrive for her parties. I don't live in a house... FYI.
10. Your dead pool sucks. Did you really bet on who would die first?
My dead pool does suck, so far they are all alive and kicking. I guess I should pick people who have shittier health insurance. So far this year there have been over thirty five noteworthy deaths and none of them are on my list. I think I will rename my dead pool list, "dead keno." Maybe I will be right about one of them.
11. What's your problem with pirates? Pirates are cool!
Have you seen the movie, PIRATES with Walter Matthau? That's a great pirate movie. After that the pirate genre just sorta opens up. And that doesn't make them interesting, in fact, from that point on the images mostly sour. What I meant to say about them in my post was that the existing stereotype of them is horrid. I am hoping that they were not, in reality, puffy shirt wearing, eye patched, parrot loving men with speech impediments.
12. Do you have any male friends?
Define "friends."
13. What is your diet like?
I eat two eggs with fresh garlic and tomato every morning. I eat them on top of WASA rye crispbread with a very small smear of peanut butter. I usually have fruit and coffee with that. Every day for the past five months - same breakfast.
After that, my meals and dining are wide open. I don't drink soda, I eat nothing fried, no candy, no bread, no white rice, no potato chips, no dressings, low to zero sugar, low sodium, low fat, lots of fish and chicken... That's really it. Not much. I try to keep my diet pretty healthy. Lots of salads with white vinegar dressing. No dairy. I don't even drink fruit juice anymore. AND I LOVE APPLE JUICE!!! No sports drinks. And the only night I get to cheat is Friday night Pizza night. And that pizza is a small thin crust pizza.
I figured out why I wasn't losing weight and I changed that. I do sprint swimming and endurance swimming now. That made a world of difference.
14. Do you miss Facebook?
I don't. I actually despise it when people talk about stuff they read off Facebook. I know see Facebook as a character flaw. If the most you can say in a conversation is stuff you read off Facebook, you need help.
15. Where do you get all those weird photos for your blog?
At the "weird photo for your blog" website.
That's it. There is one person who is signed up to have the posts sent to their email. If you want to have these emailed to you, send me an email from the address you want to use and put ADD ME in the subject line. I will add you.
1. How is the exercise going? Are you joining the Navy?
Uh, no. Well, first... After almost two weeks of an upper respiratory "thing," I was finally able to get back in the pool and resume my workout regime. Of all the things to muck up in my body, my lungs are essential to my long term recovery plans. I do well over an hour of cardio every day and when the breathing is labored it makes it incredibly difficult to finish. This is especially true for the swimming. I only get a moment every other stroke to take in air and when that's blocked I tend to panic. I thrash about and I look more like someone drowning in three feet of water than someone burning fat. Though trashing is good anaerobic activity. The lung thing won't go away but it's getting better.
Second: No. I'm not joining the Navy. I'm forty! I am doing the Navy Seal WORKOUT only. Not with the intention of joining the Navy. The workout is laid out at the Navy Seal website. I think I should point out that my shoulders are garbage so I am doing a series of exercises (also laid out on the Navy Seal website) which are designed for strengthening the shoulder muscles before you start their workout. When I feel my shoulders are strong enough I will continue with the normal Navy Seal workout. Also, it's worth noting that I am not doing the full workout as I am not 19 years old. Just a modified version which is still really tough. It's lots and lots and lots and lots of reps. I finally started to lose weight. I'm down ten pounds. GO me!
2. Sorry to hear about Grad school. Are you going to apply again?
I'm not sure. I think I would just like to teach writing and presently there is a position at a local community college where I would be working with people who need help with their writing. It's not as glorious as "professor," but I'm not seeking glory at this point. I just need a job. Well, I need money, but a job is how you get money. That said, I need to go to Europe more than I want to go to Europe. I have some leg issues which require immediate attention. Right now I walk around in intense pain and I need a surgery to make that pain go away. Europe offers that surgery and America does not. Well it does, but it costs a whole lot more.
3. Do you ever feel bad about what you write about people?
I don't. It took a long time to be honest with my writing. In the past I spent a lot of time editing things or avoiding things just so I wouldn't hurt people's feelings. But the writing was a lie, it wasn't genuine and therefore I didn't care for it much. When I tell the truth in my writing it's much more satisfying and in some ways cathartic. This has been especially true for the nutty people I was trying not to offend; now I just don't worry about whether it hurts their feelings or not. They are going to be offended no matter what I write. Cause their nutty. It's in their nature to find a way to be offended by what you write even if it isn't about them. So if I am going to be punished anyway, might as well be the truth. As for any other comments which may hurt people's feelings. Well, I shouldn't have titled that one post about the kid at the gym who keeps glaring at me, "CORKY" but other than that, I'm okay with my work. I'm pretty sure Kim Kardashian doesn't care what I say about her.
4. You said before that you had no family and but then you say you have all these relatives, so what's the deal? And where is your son? Do you see him? (asked by several people)
I don't care for my family. And for my own sanity I don't associate with them. My mother and brother live together; my birth father and grandparents are dead; and my legal father lives a few hours from my mother and brother. They are all in Washington State and I am willing to give it to them. Much the same way I give other corners of the world to my high profile ex's. I am never going to New Orleans again, nor will you ever find me in Pittsburgh. I just don't like my family, we don't get along with each other. My legal father is the only one who is decent, but we differ strongly on political views and he has taken his ideology to the extreme so I have to just let go of that to prevent hostilities. He loves Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly, need I say more? So, yes. I have family. I even have cousins and stuff, but I don't talk to them either. I haven't seen any of them, or my Aunt in thirty years or my Uncle in twenty five. I have one Aunt I have never met. Ever.
My son is a private matter. I keep his life private for the most part. It's his choice on how we proceed, not mine. I'm not of the mindset held by so many selfish parents who think it's their right to dictate how children live their lives. If he wants to see me, I eagerly await that moment, but it's his choice.
5. Are you dating someone now? What is her name?
I live with a woman who is... ahem... "taken" in the legal sense. So we are cohabitating at the moment. We have been friends for many years and do like each other quite a bit which is to say that we have sex often and share a grocery bill. She offered me a place to stay when I needed one and things just progressed from there. She plays disc golf with me which is a big plus. I won't share her name as I do not share names on my blog if I can help it. Unless they're famous, dead, or have no idea how to take me to court. And if I move to Europe she will go with me. But she's European, which, I think, helps.
6. You're mean and angry a lot. Is there something going on in your life you're not sharing?
I don't share everything about my life in the blog. It's a place for me to write, to work out thoughts in my head or to slander stupid people. I will admit that I tend to let it all go when I write about certain topics, but that's the point. You write what you feel. However, no one is going to care if I write a blog discussing my feelings about cinnamon. I think writers always write about things which they are passionate about first. And there is nothing more passionate than frustration about the things we see in the world around us. If you would like, I will write a post a week where I talk about the wind in the trees, the Methow Valley, and how much I love coffee, peanut butter and Bob Seger.
7. What do all those places have in common? I can't figure it out and it's torturing me. [regarding the list of places I posted called, Kim Kardashian is pregnant and other natural disasters]
I wrote that list for one person in particular. I guess it could apply to anyone but the list, which is just part one of the full list, is for one person. Go visit those places and you'll know how they are all related. It's not some big mystery. I apologize for the cryptic nature of the post. Googling them won't help.
8. Do you know just how fucked up you are?
I do. I am fully aware of just how fucked up I am. I think this gives me insight into just how fucked up everyone else is around me. How does the old adage go, "takes one to know one." Though in this case you are more trying to be insulting rather than making a subjective observation. Further. I know where my fucked upedness stems from and it's very liberating to be so focused. Most people have no idea where theirs comes from or they try to wildly self-diagnose themselves and that just leads to further fucked upedness.
9. What's your deal with fire pits? Do you have one at your house?
I love fire pits. I love the way the fire smells and I am hypnotized by the flames. A lot of great thinking happens around a fire. I don't have a fire pit at my house but a friend of mine who is fond of throwing parties has a backyard with a fire pit. She is aware of my fondness for it and actually prepares it for me before I arrive for her parties. I don't live in a house... FYI.
10. Your dead pool sucks. Did you really bet on who would die first?
My dead pool does suck, so far they are all alive and kicking. I guess I should pick people who have shittier health insurance. So far this year there have been over thirty five noteworthy deaths and none of them are on my list. I think I will rename my dead pool list, "dead keno." Maybe I will be right about one of them.
11. What's your problem with pirates? Pirates are cool!
Have you seen the movie, PIRATES with Walter Matthau? That's a great pirate movie. After that the pirate genre just sorta opens up. And that doesn't make them interesting, in fact, from that point on the images mostly sour. What I meant to say about them in my post was that the existing stereotype of them is horrid. I am hoping that they were not, in reality, puffy shirt wearing, eye patched, parrot loving men with speech impediments.
12. Do you have any male friends?
Define "friends."
13. What is your diet like?
I eat two eggs with fresh garlic and tomato every morning. I eat them on top of WASA rye crispbread with a very small smear of peanut butter. I usually have fruit and coffee with that. Every day for the past five months - same breakfast.
After that, my meals and dining are wide open. I don't drink soda, I eat nothing fried, no candy, no bread, no white rice, no potato chips, no dressings, low to zero sugar, low sodium, low fat, lots of fish and chicken... That's really it. Not much. I try to keep my diet pretty healthy. Lots of salads with white vinegar dressing. No dairy. I don't even drink fruit juice anymore. AND I LOVE APPLE JUICE!!! No sports drinks. And the only night I get to cheat is Friday night Pizza night. And that pizza is a small thin crust pizza.
I figured out why I wasn't losing weight and I changed that. I do sprint swimming and endurance swimming now. That made a world of difference.
14. Do you miss Facebook?
I don't. I actually despise it when people talk about stuff they read off Facebook. I know see Facebook as a character flaw. If the most you can say in a conversation is stuff you read off Facebook, you need help.
15. Where do you get all those weird photos for your blog?
At the "weird photo for your blog" website.
That's it. There is one person who is signed up to have the posts sent to their email. If you want to have these emailed to you, send me an email from the address you want to use and put ADD ME in the subject line. I will add you.
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