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- The historical ball gender thingy transpired without incident. Various people saw me and said "George Sand," and I smiled and nodded as this makes my existence historically acceptable.

I was glad that we could attend the event and also feel, at this point at least, that we could against next year. I remain internally deeply ambivalent about the gender/queer thing situation for reasons that are alternately too complicated and too boring to get into.

- In fact, being away this weekend was an absolute godsend and something we both totally needed.

- Too bad the return home has involved a clogged toilet, the previously posted about leak, and a good deal of cat puke. All of thise situations seem to have subsided for the moment. Real life is hard, and it has made me innordinately stressed out.

- To update on the leak sitaution, the boiler has cycled on again, but no more leaking for several hours. It just started again, now as the boiler is cycling off it seems.

- OMG, why does iTunes have none of hte music I want right now?

- Firefly! So that thing where Mal gets a wife? wow, that could have gone in a lot of different directions. Probably the most satisfying episode so far, and with a lot of odd character reveals. This goes on my list of "watch this show to learn how to structure/characterize."

- So I am thinking of buying a laptop sometime between now and mid-January. I need your input.

I am trying to decide between getting a Mac (anyone with info on timing because of impending new releases, let me know), a random PC netbook, and an actual proper PC laptop. There are pros and cons to all for me. My main needs are the Internet and word processing. Secondary needs are Excel, possibly Access. I use photoshop a lot, but realize that's a problem on Macs and will probably just continue with that on my old desktop. Ideally my budget is 1K or less. Obviously if I go with a net book type thing I want to spend a lot less, and I might conceivably push my budget for $1,400 for a Mac.

Thoughts?

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I'm not at the point of having issues with the cultural construct, but I'm at the point where I have a list of things I feel like they have to address. And I feel like they won't. It's a really odd show, that skirts on the edge of stuff in a pretty ugly/dark way, and I feel like that's awesome from the standpoint of heroes often suck and villains always have reasons, but I know that and you know that and story tellers know that, but who watching knows that.

And, to be honest, I was actually a bit bummed in that ep that the girl wasn't who sh said she was. I thougth the ethical issues of the obvious problem were interesting and they were doing an interesting job with it.

Also, character I did not expect to identify with: Wash