Posted by Leslie on August 27th, 2008 | 6 Comments
{Edition XXXVI} I’m sure this is hideously boring, but, hey, at least I actually did it this week! And on time!
ME by the Numbers!
1. Number of years we’ve lived at our current house.
2. Cars: both minivans
3. Number of kids: 16 year old, 9 year old twins
4. Pets: Cat, Hamster, Hermit crab, Fish
5. Members of my family: Husband, me, three kids
6. Number of years I’ve known most of the gals from Writers At Play.
7. First number of my house number: 7500
8. Number of years I’ve been friends with Lisa.
9. Number of jobs/company changes my husband has had in time we’ve been married.
10. Number of years we lived at the house before this one.
11. Number of years I’ve been a member of RWA.
12. Number of rejection letters I’ve received.
13. Number of years I’ve worked at this building for the same company.
Posted by Leslie on August 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment
from my bestest pal and critique partner, Lisa. Her rendering of Gerry Seinfeild’s face on a romance novel got a “grape snort” from Smart Bitches, who started the whole thing with their snark for clinche covers. Who says romance novels and sitcom TV don’t mix? 
Posted by Leslie on August 21st, 2008 | 3 Comments
{Edition XXXV} Top things you didn’t know about sex, according to Discover Magazine.
Thirteen Things You Didn’t Know About Sex
1. Life emerged on earth about 3.8 billion years ago, but sex did not evolve until more than 2 billion years later. Dirty limericks emerged only quite recently, geologically speaking.
2. Sex—what is it good for? Scientists are not sure, since asexual reproduction is a better evolutionary strategy in some important ways.
3. For those who refuse to commit to one strategy: The hermaphroditic earthworm Dendrobaena rubida has both male and female genitalia. If it cannot find a partner, the worm doubles up so that its female bits and male bits can go to town.
4. Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes.
5. The spiny anteater, an egg-laying mammal native to Australia and New Guinea, has a penis with four heads, but only two fit into the female at once.
6. The tiny male paper nautilus, an octopus, impregnates the much larger female by shooting his penis (a modified tentacle) into her—and leaving it there.
7. Homosexual behavior is found in at least 1,500 species of mammal, fish, reptile, bird, and even invertebrate.
8. When a male goose courts another male goose, a female sometimes slips in and mates with both males. Later, the male partners share paternal duties.
9. Some seagulls practice lesbian mating, although the eggs that result from their liaisons are sterile.
10. Biologists at the University of California at San Francisco have found that male fruit flies exposed to high levels of alcohol become hypersexual and try to court practically anything with wings, including other male fruit flies.
11. Only a few vertebrates besides humans copulate face to face. Among those that sometimes do this: hamsters, beavers, and some primates, such as bonobos and orangutans.
12. French kissing is rarer still. The only other species known to do it as a prelude to mating is the white-fronted parrot. After the birds open their beaks and touch tongues, the male spews his lunch onto the female’s chest.
13. Size really does matter: People tend to choose mates of similar race, education level—and chubbiness. A recent British study indicates that obese people usually select partners with comparable levels of body fat.
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Posted by Leslie on August 13th, 2008 | 3 Comments
{Edition XXXIV} Thirteen unusual things you can find on eBay. (Hint: Just look in the “Everything Else” catagory!)
Thirteen Bizarre Things You Can Buy on eBay
3. Geneology
4. Adult Toys
7. Handcuffs
9. Stun Guns
10. Unsearched bag of rough diamonds
11. Black paper clip
12. Cheesepuff that resembles a vagina
13. Black Widow Spider necklace
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Posted by Leslie on August 10th, 2008 | No Comments
today! Don’t have much to say (or the time to say it) but I posted some of the LOLCats I created for my various writerly moods and frustrations. Hope you’ll visit and comment!
Posted by Leslie on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments
Don’t have time for the cool graphic and links and all, but I thought I’d post thirteen of my favorite photos from (the sightseeing portion of) my trip to California. Giant Redwoods: Golden Gate bridge with famous fog: Wild sealions and birds in Montery Bay: Pebble Beach, where the famous golf course is: Wild sealion at Pebble Beach: Wild seal at Pebble Beach: The famous lone cypress: My friend’s house:
Posted by Leslie on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments
Why write a Thursday Thirteen post or one about the conference or one about my few days in San Francisco and Montery Bay or one about all of the people I met last week or one about the EIGHT hours I spent in the emergency room with my daughter? Who cares about any of that when I can write about a 110 year old lizard who finally got laid. Good old Henry is a tuatara, a lizard-like creature descended straight from dinosaurs (looks like a iguana to me). There are only a small colony of them left in New Zealand’s offshore islands. But Henry didn’t want to do his job for four decades. And then a tumor was discovered near his groin. Once that bad boy was removed, Henry had a renewed interest in the fairer sex. He mated with Mildred, a 70+ year old tuatara and she laid twelve eggs. He’s got plenty of time to make up for those years of missed sex. At over a century old, he’s only lived half his life span. See - now wasn’t that more interesting than the other boring stuff I mentioned?
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