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This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Tag Archives: rant
A couple months ago, I proposed to talk about writing for therapy, how to kinda “go there”, via blogging. The conference was yesterday. It was an “unconference” put on by end-patients and people who work on the peripheries of mental care. Why did I want to get involved? For a million reasons. I’ll get to [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Being me, blogging, Depression, Dimestore Philosophy, Hygiene & Health, internet, Journalling, keeping it real, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Psychology & Moods, Society, Steff Rants, writing Also tagged absenteeism, assholes, depression, insantiy, mental health, mental health camp, mental illness, pettiness, public speaking, sick, small-minded people, spineless, stigma, stimatizing 14 Comments
Dec
01
2009
RANT: Can I *JUST* Talk?
It’s worth reading the note at the end of this if you really ARE in my life, because what I want online versus from people in the flesh are very different. Thanks. This morning I’m feeling a bit hamstrung by the life I’ve carved for myself. I know even saying this is going to ruffle [...]
Posted in Journalling, keeping it real, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, Twitter Also tagged backing off, facebook, life, online dilemmas, online identity, overreaching, real life, Twitter, well-meaning 3 Comments
I had a classic big ol’ Twitter fight with an insensitive fuckwit last night, who I haven’t blocked because I’m not in Grade 5 anymore, but it basically came down to me saying, “No, I’m not coming out because I need some time to myself.” Long story short: I’ve been up at 5 the last [...]
Posted in Being me, Etiquette, keeping it real, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, Twitter Also tagged asshats, balance, challenges, children, coping, fatigue, friends, high school, jerks, social life, time management 3 Comments
I had to doublecheck my old-school calendar just now. Holy fuck, it really is 2009. Who knew? Clearly not the folks running the Miss California Pageant. Yeah, Miss California. You remember her? Perez Hilton went all “oh, no you didn’t [SNAP]” as a result of the ass-backward beauty’s anti-gay marriage stance she posited while she grinned [...]
Posted in Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, feminism, How To Guides, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Society, Steff Rants Also tagged beauty queen, boob job, breast implants, miss california, miss california pageant, plastic surgery 5 Comments
So, earlier I asked if you have the right to ask a risk-taker to tone down their lifestyle once you get hooked to them. My opinion? No. You do not. And if they tell you you can go ahead and tell them how to change; don’t. You’d fucking with what oughtn’t be fucked. In a nutshell. [...]
Posted in Battle of the Comments, Best of Steff, Current Events, feminism, keeping it real, Life 101, Marriage & Other Commitments, Modern Feminism, money, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), relationships, Society, Steff Rants, Women's Department Also tagged adventure, australia, australians, becoming a widow, consequences, controversy, crocodile hunter, death, dependents, feminism, gaming, germaine greer, hardcore, insurance, irwin death, irwin family, leaving a family, life insurance, militant, offensive, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), risk-taking, steve irwin, thrill-seeking, tragedy, widow 6 Comments
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