Wrapping Up the Questions

Since I missed yesterday, I'm going to try and finish up today.


Who are some of your favorite visual artists? And are there any other art historians/art writers besides Whitney Chadwick who you really like?

Max Ernst, Man Ray, Hannah Hoch. Hans Bellmer (even if it makes me blush to admit). Claude Cahun. Alexander Rodchenko.

The "Dada Painters and Poets" anthology edited by Robert Motherwell was very influential to me as a young adult. Hayden Herrera's biography of Frida Kahlo was also, a little later. The anthology "Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography," with essays by Jennifer Blessing and Judith Halberstam, is very dear to me. "Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs" by Teresa Boffin and co. is, too.

Has your LiveJournaling changed since having kids?

I don't know if this was intended as a serious question or not, but I am going to take it seriously.

Yes, but aside from detailed exegeses of what the twins are eating this week :), I think it mostly has to do with the number of links I post. My last day job consisted in part of deliberately surfing the web for content; these days, I hardly surf at all. So, not as many links to interesting/infuriating/thought-provoking/pretty stuff, and the attendant discussions thereof.

Last But Not Least

Is the parenting of your twins split evenly three ways? If G does more than S is it because G isn't working or because he's the bio dad?

G. and I split the "high-level decision-making" stuff, because G. and I are the bio-parents and that's what all three of us prefer. We try to split the day-to-day stuff more or less evenly three ways, but I think G. and I end up doing a little more because a) we're both home all day and Steven's at work, and b) Steven is happy to do more chore-like things instead.

Do you think you're going to homeschool? Do you think you're going to stay in the Bay Area when the twins are school-age?

I plan on staying in the Bay Area as long as it's feasible. I do not plan on homeschooling at this time, although I might consider a homeschool co-op type of situation. I honestly don't have a plan here because so much depends on finances.

I don't even know what you do for work. Full-time writing?

Part-time freelance writing, at the moment. I'm looking for more steady work as well.

Do you ever meet someone at a party or whatever and dismiss them as too square because of the way they're dressed, the person they're with, the job they say they do, or whatever? (Barring big old Republican Party t-shirts and so on.)

No. I don't really care about that stuff. I look for people I click with, not people to toss on the compost pile, if that makes sense. Everyone gets the benefit of the doubt until they've proved themselves a schmuck.

Also, I am hardly one to judge anyone as "too square."

Bonus Answer!

Nobody really asked this, but for the record:

Why do you call G. 'G.' but call Steven by his full first name?

G.'s full first name is Guy. As in, "I'm dating this guy. Named Guy. No, really, his name is Guy! He's a guy named Guy! No, not the French pronunciation, the English one!"

I hated the "guy named Guy" thing, so I abbreviated him as G. when he first started appearing in these entries. It stuck. That's all.

(I refer to the French pronunciation because it's also a small little in-joke in my head that "G." spoken aloud is "Gee," which is pretty close to said pronunciation, which is wrong, which is funny. To me. Anyway...)

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