my first post

all my friends have blogs, and i want one too. so i'm making this one just so i can reply to their posts if i ever want to. true to the blog's name, i am indeed a boring old lady. i am sneaking up on 40 and i have two ill-behaved male kids. they are cute, maybe even cuter than my two, better-behaved female cats, but i'm not posting either subjects' pictures. (not because i'm worried about perverted kid or cat stalkers... i simply don't know how to do it)

my only claim to fame is being in a few crappy basement bands in the early 90s where i wore vinyl shorts and played shrieking power chords behind offensive lyrics all the while imagining i was some sort of feminist intellectual. just in case anyone would like to compare my deluded feminist dream-state to the lyrics of our signature song, flattered to be battered, i would include the link to a musical sampling of crotch, one of the earliest bands i was in, but again, i don't know how to do it. maybe another day. perhaps on that day, you can see my cats too.

my other claim to something - this time less than fame, and perhaps not even noteriety, was the paper i published with a maverick chemist who would one day become my charming husband and father of those obnoxious kids i mentioned before. the title is one of my best works, a lilting poetic cauldron of prose so aptly called, "A Mechanistic Dichotomy in the Reactions of Cp2M(CH2+CHMe) (M = NB, Ta) with Catecholborane: Generation of Boryl Complexes by Propylene Hydroboration and Propylene Loss." even if i knew how, i probably wouldn't include the link to that one, even though it was a pretty good paper. at least i figured out how to use the italics button.

that is all for now. will anyone read this? are there other boring old folks out there who used to consider themselves cultural cognoscente only to become fat old dummies out of touch with pop culture while raising a bunch of spoiled kids ? am i the only one?? and if not, what the hell were you looking for that you came across this piece of tripe?