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    Saturday, March 10th, 2012
    1:48 pm
    An Internet Thing I Am Sick Of
     Gentlemen, whenever a person of the female gender is depicted or discussed, do not feel the need to issue an official Boner Report as to whether you would or would not hypothetically have sex with that lady. Nobody cares. You will not receive valuable prizes for assigning every woman who ever lived into the "I'd hit it"/"I wouldn't hit it" category. Unless you think of my contempt and derision as a valuable prize, in which case YOU MAY ALREADY BE A WINNER.

    (This brought to you by several dudes who felt the need to tell the Internet that the young Lillian Gish gave them a boner. Apparently, their plan is to build a time machine and go back to 1923 to woo Ms. Gish? They should at least stop to kill you-know-who on the way.)
    Friday, March 9th, 2012
    10:08 pm
    Yay!
     One of my favorite SF books of 2011, Andrea Hairston's Redwood and Wildfire, won the Tiptree Award. Yay! My Twitter review for it was "BREATHTAKING HISTORICAL FANTASY: glorious take on the power of magic AND sharp commentary on race in the US."
    Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
    6:34 pm
    In the Bleak Midwinter
     I am going to join the great carol (Harold Darke's setting is the best, no matter how much I love Holst otherwise) in inaccuracy. Because it feels like the middle of a tough patch, not the beginning of one.

    Wishing everyone in the Northern Hemisphere light and hope and unfreezing. Some year I am going to be in the Southern Hemisphere and see how folks there transform the "light in the darkest time" ceremonies like Christmas and Hanukkah and Diwali and Jul into something that works better for the summer solstice!
    Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
    8:22 pm
    Singularity Achieved
     So I get The New Yorker, as it was a gift from my dad (before his death, obvs!) In this week's issue, author John McPhee, fabled for his long and incredibly detailed stories about people and things (which I think is a bug, but many people think is a feature) writes a long and detailed story about how he writes his long and incredibly detailed stories.

    I am not making this up!
    Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
    11:49 am
    Mississippi Personhood Amendment
     So, yes, this is a real thing, and I support the people who are opposing it!

    I'm a little troubled by the way some people have seized on the "will criminalize miscarriage" not just as an example of the absurdity of the bill, but with an implication that criminalizing miscarriage is somehow worse than criminalizing abortion. Criminalizing medical procedures seems to me just as morally bad as criminalizing natural body processes, though obviously for women who have lost wanted pregnancies the added emotional cruelty of a criminal case would be horrific.

    28% of women in the US are estimated to have had abortions (including me). 25% to 35% of women in the US are estimated to have had miscarriages (including me). Of course, since my miscarriage was of a pregnancy I already had an appointment to terminate, I guess I'm Mississippi Public Enemy #1.
    Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
    11:02 pm
    National Coming Out Day
     So I can't decide what to say, because, yeah, I'm bisexual, but as it happened I married a man a bazillion years ago and we chose to be monogamous, and so my current relationship is unfairly privileged by homophobic asshats and that's shitty. And can't decide whether "I haven't been queerbashed in more than a decade so I should just shut up" or "Shutting up contributes to bi invisibility."

    But I do want to say to everyone who feels or knows that it would be unsafe for them to come out: you are fighting homophobia every day just by existing and staying safe, and you don't owe the rest of us anything more than that.
    Friday, October 7th, 2011
    7:08 pm
    Ada Lovelace Day!
     One of the best science books I read last year was Rebecca Jordan-Young's Brainstorm, a critique of the received wisdom on neurological gender differences (SPOILER: NO ACTUAL DATA SUGGESTS THERE ARE ANY SIGNIFICANT ONES).

    I am not a neurologist, nor do I play one on TV, so I'm going to let Jordan-Young and her ideas speak for themselves in video form.

    (Ada Lovelace Day is a day to celebrate women's achievements in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, named in honor of the 19th century mathematician who was the patron and collaborator of Charles Babbage.)
    Thursday, June 9th, 2011
    9:53 pm
    This Should Go Without Saying
     A young woman received an inappropriate and unwanted sexual image from a Congressional Representative with whom she was communicating via a social media account he used to converse with constituents and others about issues of public interest, while she was communicating with him in his role as a Representative in Congress.

    Anyone who doesn't get why this is a big deal needs to think about it more. When an active citizen writes to an elected official about politics, it is a breach of public trust for the official to respond with an unwanted and unsolicited picture of their genitalia.

    I could care less about Representative Weiner's private life, and how many photos of his dong he sends to his various sweethearts and online flirting buddies. Sending unsolicited photos of his dong to random citizens who are just trying to engage with the public work of the Congress? Not OK.
    Monday, June 6th, 2011
    7:31 pm
    The Last Words of Bat Masterson
     "There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose that these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in winter things are breaking even for both."

    William Barclay Masterson, 1853-1921
    Sunday, May 29th, 2011
    10:12 pm
    Postcards from the reality-based community
     People who "choose to disagree" with facts are impressive.

    ( WHARFARGBL )
    Saturday, May 21st, 2011
    12:06 am
    SPOILERS INSIDE
     So, it's already past 6 p.m. local time in parts of Kiribati, and guess what? No Rapture!
    Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
    10:42 am
    Dullest Vicodin dream to date
     A panicked rush for coleslaw ingredients, so that I could make coleslaw before appearing in a play with my friend Joel Derfner. Must have been a dud Vicodin?
    Sunday, May 15th, 2011
    9:14 pm
    I actually am my khakis
     THE FIRST RULE OF LARYNGITIS CLUB IS THAT YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT LARYNGITIS CLUB
    9:58 am
    Curiouser and curiouser
     In last night's Vicodin dream, Stephen Fry showed me his penis. Not, I hasten to add, because he was being a creeper, but because he wanted my advice on a health problem.

    I have never had so much sympathy for Rush Limbaugh as I have since I have been taking this stuff. ("So much" means "a tiny bit more than absolute zero, probably only measurable by the most sophisticated laboratory equipment," but still.) I find the whole narcotic thing to be very unsettling, cognitively.
    Saturday, May 14th, 2011
    4:37 pm
    Take As Directed
     One of the side effects of my kabillion different medications I'm taking for the Doom Cough (probably one of the narcotics) is constant sub-auditory hallucinations.

    You know how when you have an earworm of a song, and the song is stuck in your head even though it's not like you're actually hearing the song? Imagine that, only instead of an infectious song it's a radio blipping around through various talk programs, with so much static that you only catch some of the words.

    I don't know how people who live with this on a regular basis can stand it! It's so exhausting.
    Friday, May 13th, 2011
    2:03 am
    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Snark Goes On
     Facebook exchange I had today:

    {Former colleague}: NEWT? Very scary!!

    Me: Why are you so scared of a slimy, cold-blooded creature with a teeny-tiny brain capacity? Or is it the amphibians you're talking about?
    Thursday, May 12th, 2011
    10:46 pm
    I HAVE BEEN EATEN BY A GRUE
     So it seems I may have whooping cough (!?!?!?) So many 19th-century ailments in the last little while, that I feel like my life is a game of Oregon Trail.
    Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
    8:04 am
    What It's All About
     This is so lovely.

    (Found thanks to Janet Reid.)

    Current Mood: Enchanted
    Monday, May 9th, 2011
    9:32 pm
    Every Day is Triffids' Day
     To pile joy upon joy, I had a full range of seasonal allergy testing today. The verdict is that I am allergic to everything.

    Which, yeah, I knew, but it is different to see it spelled out in red welts on your arm. Sour dock, whatever you are, you are dead to me now. DEAD I SAY.

    Still have zero voice, which makes for an interesting health-care experience.
    9:53 am
    Bits and Pieces
     So you know how in 18th and 19th century novels (Jane Austen et al.), the maids are always using the discarded tea leaves to settle the dust while sweeping the floors? Turns out tannic acid is a great neutralizer of dust mites, so.

    ( More random thoughts from in between coughs )
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