Month: January 2004

Danger! Pool! Sharks!

Since the vote on the poll has consistently been at least 60/40 *against* me doing the potentially mentally damaging trip down the Serpent Slide of Death and Dismemberment (current results: 5 people pro swimming with sharks, 9 against the idea and pro rum, and zero persons pro me reading comic books) — I have decided […]

Face the Fear? or… ‘Run Away!’

When I was a little girl, I had a recurring nightmare about going down a plastic slide and being submerged in the bottom of a shark tank. To my youthful mind, this fear was paralysing, nerve-wracking, horrifying. My worst fear. As I grew older, I convinced myself it wasn’t really anything to lose sleep over, […]