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I don't have that much to say but I thought I hadn't said anything for a while other than memes et al. Good things in the past week:
-Phonebanking for Denise Provost for State Rep. She rules, and her call-lists rule. I got to call and leave messages for former housemates, my favorite yoga teacher, and cthulia. Sadly none of them were actually home to talk to. Anyway, if anyone wants to know why I am pro-Denise Provost and anti-Elizabeth Moroney in spite of what NARAL mailings have been telling you, I can explain it in small words by request. I feel lucky to live in a district where the candidate that I am NOT voting for is on the board at Mass NARAL.
-Being back at work, cranking rustily up to speed after the holidays is nice. I feel ready to do lots of work.
-Getting some of my website fixed by the spokesexboyfriend. Go to www.abiharper.com and check out my new intake form! Doesn't it make you want to fill it out and make an appointment to come in for a massage this month? Also look at the happy smiling healing-looking picture of me on the "about Abi" page! Don't you want a massage from that nice looking person?
-Reading The Almond, which is thus-far the best erotica novel I've read, and it's all Islamic and stuff, which is interesting and stuff, but mostly means that reading it is not boring because I don't already know all of the language and metaphor and whatever, which is my usual problem with erotica, that it doesn't tend to provide me with anything new. Also, it is really frank about things in a way that makes me happy. Also, this one has a perspective about daily meticulous hygiene that had never been made to me before in so many words that is more compelling to me than any other that I've heard. So if I've been smelling better the past week, that's why. If you'd never noticed my lack of meticulous hygiene, forget you read anything about it. Anyway, I'm about halfway through, and I find this book to be a must-read. You probably will too. It's pretty hot.
-Getting a band recommendation from aforementioned spokesexboyfriend (god he's useful!) for Ladytron, which I had been reading reviews of in Bitch and Bust forever, but sadly, I need to hear I would like a band from someone I know, because I'm not good at decoding album reviews to figure out if it's something I'd like. I always guess wrong -- it's uncanny. But anyway, Ladytron has been rocking my last 24 hours or so. They just make me happy. I think that now that I know that skaad writes music reviews for Bitch, she should end them with whether I would like them or not. That'll enhance my personal subscription rate anyway. Did I mention that over christmas I discovered I have a highschool friend who writes music reviews for Bitch? How friggin cool am I? (answer: not as cool as her)
-I had a weird dream featuring a hot-dog salesman/performance artist.
-Getting back to Ladytron, I've been inspired to learn to do rock-star/clubbing-type eye makeup. I think it might just make me look sick though.

SOMETHING I NEED REQUEST TO THE COMMUNITY:
-someone who is local that I like who is significantly shorter than me (about 5' or so) and a bit portly. My jewish grandmother would be perfect. Basically, I have this brand new pair of non-returnable really nice silk long underwear that is too short and too wide for me and it's just sitting there looking for the perfect home. It is a delightful shade of light blue, from ll bean. I would love it if only it fit, and I have a feeling that somewhere is someone who normally has a hard time finding long underwear that is short enough for them who this was really made for.

Date: 7 Jan 2006 15:05 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chenoameg.livejournal.com
www.abiharper.com is really nice.

One note -- I get the same text for the "About abi" page as the "about massage" page.

Date: 7 Jan 2006 20:17 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abilouise.livejournal.com
You sure do! I have not yet written the "About Massage" page. It's the absolutely hardest part of the page for me. Describing what I do is HARD.

Date: 8 Jan 2006 04:52 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaiya.livejournal.com
Okay, I'll bite. I'm leaning toward Denise Provost 'cause I have a ton of friends who support her, and I like what she's had to say so far, and she's NOT running a negative campaign. But why are you voting for her, and not the NARAL woman?

Denise Provost is Pro-Choice

Date: 8 Jan 2006 15:58 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lena-a-mermaid.livejournal.com
Both Elizabeth Moroney and Denise Provost are Pro-Choice candidates. Both Elizabeth Moroney and Denise Provost are members of NARAL. The difference? Elizabeth Moroney sits on the board of directors of Mass Naral and is friends with the Executive Directory of Mass NARAL. As a result Mass Naral never bothered to even have an open endorsement process and never bothered to even contact Denise Provost with a questionaire or an interview or anything else. Typically most organizations hold an open endorsement process. This time Mass NARAL chose not to and now they are sending out literature implying falsely that Moroney is the only Pro-Choice candidate.

This type of misleading and false information is typical of what is said on every other issue that is cited on Moroney's negative campaign literature.

I could tell you another million reasons why you should vote for Denise Provost. I know both candidates. Please let me know if you have any other issues that concern you or questions about either candidate.

Date: 9 Jan 2006 06:13 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abilouise.livejournal.com
I will second what lena_a_mermaid says, since she's totally more in the loop than I am. But what I was gonna say is that the reason that I like representative government is so that I don't have to know about boring wonky details like zoning or sewage, that I elect someone who sort of gets off on that stuff and has a firm grasp of how little boring things relate to larger issues of things like healthy economies and justice and stuff. I trust Denise to do this and have heard her explain the zoning of parking lots in a way that was fun and informative. I think that she is intelligent, coherent and detail-oriented, and exhibits leadership qualities that I haven't seen exhibited by the other candidate.

Date: 8 Jan 2006 11:34 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skaad.livejournal.com
Ladytron is fantastic. Do you have their latest (Witching Hour)? Also, I just learned that they're coming to SF in April, so I'm super psyched about that show. I saw Mira and Ruben do a DJ set in December that was really mediocre and she kept spazzing on the beats, so I hope their live stuff is better.

They're probably hitting Boston on the same tour - you should go!

Also, if I was anywhere near MA, I'd totally come to your practice. I contemplated asking my parents for a massage gift cert for Xmas this year, but I don't know anyone good out here, so I'll keep trying to con my raver friends into giving me back rubs instead.

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