oddgirl’s blog

The weekend was marked by bookends of dinners with Big Daddy and Super Model Tim. Friday night a trip to Caffe Macaroni in North Beach to celebrate lots of great news and possibilities of 2005 with the boys, and then up and out and on my way to Tahoe for some snow time and skiing on Saturday & Sunday at Sugarbowl with Designer Boy and the World Traveler. And on the other end another dinner – this time at the super yummy Indian Oven.

The Tahoe time was also filled with seeing a mess o’people including visitors from DC and the first overnight at my new Tahoe house share. I’m definitely going to be heading up more now that I’m familar with the house. Very cool indeed – no more committments or reservations – if it snows I can head up. Skiing was fun – I had forgotten that it’s actually exercise, but I am a little sore this morning. Good times…

Somehow some gnarly poker site has weasled it’s way around my comment configuration and had posted over 200 comments in about 3 days so until I can spend some time with MT and Blacklist to figure out how to thwart the evil spammers comments are totally turned off.

On my way to Tahoe to do some skiing. Hard, so hard to leave WoW for the weekend, but no computers will be accompanying me to Tahoe. See ya.

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Gawd, where do I start?

Clearly I have to start with the lesbian known as The Lady (what the fuck?) who seems way more ickily straight than most of the straight women I’ve ever met in my life – she’s the one that really makes me want to change the channel. “Lip gloss is must!” What lesbian says this????

I’ve been out for almost 20 years. I can’t say I’ve ever met a lesbian under 50 who preferred to be called a lady. A woman, a womon, womyn, girl, dyke, boi, baby butch, femme… but lady? And I’m supposed to believe there are straight woman out there who really want to get advice on how to get a man from a lesbian?

Next, it’s set in LA. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in LA. I’ve seen the women in LA. They just don’t need that much help frankly. Could they not find a city with less of a reputation for containing the most beautiful people in the world? Take a chance… try one of the red states.

The house guy (Damon, i think) is the least offensive of the other two queers. Kinda bland but at least watching him didn’t make me wince in my gay-ness. The other two guys and The Lady (AAARRRGGGHHHH) were profoundly unbearable in their shrieking, stereotypical mess of a depiction of what gay style is supposed to be.

I want that hour of my life back.

The new year has begun – should be an interesting one. A big birthday, a couple trips, and a job transfer that should land me squarely back in crunch time by next year at this time.

Resolution-wise, I’ve already gotten off to a pretty good start. Haven’t been drinking (taking Jan off completely), have been pretty careful about what i’m eating and I’ve been to the gym regularly. Feeling pretty good about it – the only thing I’m missing is the social scene that comes w/drinking.

So, I guess my main resolution for the next year is to figure out how to meet single women without going to a bar.

Minor resoultions include:
1. not getting into any more car accidents (since i got into a minor fender bender last week, I’ve got the car accident thing covered for awhile…)

2. reconnecting with old friends that i’ve been out of touch with. i’ve already talked to my best friend from high school who i’ve been out of touch with for 5-6 years and and old girlfriend who i was terribly crazy about when i lived in Maryland.

3. read more books, see more art.

4. try golf. and not via a video game. every year i think about taking golf lessons. this is my year.

I started my university career as a journalism major and I dreamed of writing for the Washington Post. Didn’t turn out quite that way, but I did get quoted in an article today. Any press is good press, eh?

I get alot of email for work, but every now and then I get one that just floors me.

Yesterday I got an email detailing a marriage proposal of two people who met on the BBS of my website – and the proposal is communicated a video created using the game. Wow.

1. I finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

This last year was the best one yet professionally for me. I got to work my ass off, have fun and help make one of the best games of the year. And from the sound of it 2005 is going to be even better for me.

2. Listening to Erasure can almost always cheer me up.

3. My parents think that I have a different sense of design than I actually do – as evidenced by the hanukkah gift of 2004.

4. Having a regret about something isn’t the end of the world. And with enough time it can be worked through. But there’s no way of getting around it.

5a. If you sit behind a desk about 70-80 hours a week for 6 months and eat pizza, takeout thai, indian and chinese food for most of that time you gain a lot of weight. But it’s ok, because almost everyone around you does too.

5b. And if you’re a dyke and you gain a bunch of weight and have to go to a fancy event (like a wedding or a company party), wear a tux. Go for dapper and eccentric and people won’t realize how much pizza you’ve eaten in the last 6 months.

6. And the best lesson of 2004 for me was that I have great friends and they were there for me when I needed them. Thanks to all of you who were there for after I emerged from crunch on my project to help me deal with what I found when I came out.

Next up… what I hope to learn in 2005…