Posts by Megan Wegan
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I do wish you and that Hart woman would stop reading my high school diaries.
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Sofie: Those are beautiful.
Jackie: You are amazing. I have a dear friend who has suffered a loss, and I have been desperately trying to think of something I can do.
Hilary's
In fact skip any of that 'I know how you feel' or empathetic talk of 'suffering' and just do practical helpful stuff. Or just send kindness.
is brilliant advice. I can do that.
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I have the fortunate distinction of hardly ever getting sick*. I haven't been in hospital since I was a child - before I can remember. I've been to the doctor maybe three times in the five years I've lived in Wellington.
Of course, consequently, I appear to have given myself a massive complex about hospitals. Which means visiting people, even when they are there for routine and simple things, almost gives me a panic attack. Fun!
It's possible I'm just turning into a girl. Or straightening.
I'm so taking credit for that. It started with the sparkly shoes you bought for the book launch.
* Yes, I am touching wood right now...that sentence rather tempted fate, didn't it?
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Because Robyn posted that Taylor Swift video, I give you this one:
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But hell - Nelsen wouldn't look out of place in a tournament team, and Reid and Smith are the futures of the All Whites. And Elliott, Smeltz, Bertos all had great games. Totally stoked.
No love for Mark Paston?
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Having said that....the crying? Is pretty hard to watch.
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So, Kev is proud then?
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Not a fan of yodelling in general, and then the Topp Twins do it, and I think I love it.
I interviewed a yodeller once. Having seen it, ah, up close, I am not a huge fan.
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but nothing could distract me from a good book during a long bus ride.
That sounds like a challenge, my dear.
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It's also a feminist statement that we live in a country where slut-shaming is alive and well, but it doesn't take the form of a punch in the mouth from a state-sanctioned clerical goon squad.
You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, as I went home on the bus. The 'gentleman' behind me probably couldn't tell I could see his reflection in the window. If he had been able to, he might not have spent 20 minutes looking down the front of my dress, quite so enthusiastically.
Cos there's appreciative glances, and there is ogling. And the latter is still gross. But for me, as someone whose body most definitely doesn't fit into "restrictive mainstream notions of sexuality and sexiness", highlighting parts of it does sometimes feel like a decisive feminist action.
Yes, I am pleased to live in a country where the most I am going to get for my trouble is a scathing look, and to be made uncomfortable by skeevy bus dude. But that doesn't mean I have to like it.