March 2011
3 posts
Frienemies
Here’s a secret: When I talk about how much weight I’ve lost, I am just guessing. I didn’t even own a scale until about two months ago.
This is because fat people both fear and hate scales. They are a concrete reminder of what a failure we are (and society gives us enough clues as to how unappealing and second class we fatties are without bringing that mocking judgement...
Book Report :: American Psycho
I’m a fan of Bret Easton Ellis. I like the subversiveness, the excess, the seedy underbelly of the upper class. I dig it. But, when I started reading American Psycho, I was…bored. Seriously, bored out of my mind with the incessant descriptions of what everyone was wearing and the chapters wholly devoted to the analysis of various rock albums of the 80’s.
I couldn’t...
Under Construction
In a lot of ways, losing weight is exactly how I imagined it would be. The euphoria of buying progressively smaller clothes, of having your old clothes, that you were once so uncomfortable in (because you were uncomfortable in you) be too big to wear anymore, of having all those boys who wouldn’t give you the time of day before be interested in what you have to say (like they’ve never...
