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- We booked our flights for Dragon*con -- we'll be in on Thursday night around 8pm and leaving Monday around 4pm. We will be doing things away from the con. Patty wants to see the aquarium and an old friend has offered to take us around a bit. Of course, we'll also be doing the whole con drinkies and socializing thing and attending programming of personal interest and then whatever I wind up on.

- I should book my WriterCon flight, as I'm seeing good prices, but I want to wait until the schedule is out and I can make a rational decision about when I should be flying. Also, really, I should just suck it up and fly Thursday night, because crack of dawn on Friday sucks -- didn't we learn this from Dragon*Con last year?

- I have about 800 other con-related things I want to get cracking on -- such as planning out footage I want to get for the pilot, seeing what technology I can get access too for recording, etc. and also some fan-led event stuff and possibly vending stuff for WriterCon.

- Still need to mail the paperwork for the anthology. Today, today! Also I need to send the editor a bio.

- Got it felt so good to get that fic done last night. I've not been able to write like that in a while.

- I've got the Madonna essay all planned out, and I'd like to sit down and do it tonight, but I am not sure that's going to happen.

- I burned my mouth on mini tacos.

- I miss Patty.

- The latest insanity from Republicans that gay marriage is bad for the economy, specifically small businesses? I'm enraged. First, it's just not true, when one considers the studies that have been done on the wedding industry (which is mostly small businesses), but it's more than that. The assertion that the basis on which to allow or disallow a class of people rights has to do with not whether they deserve them not not, not whether they are human or not, not whether they are equal to their heterosexually partnered brothers and sisters or not, but whether it's convenient for companies? It's an attack on the very idea of freedom. It implies workers are property and it has me trembling, trembling! with fury.

- Need to decide if Patty and I are going to the Hewitt reunion. It's not my year, but the school is small and always does all classes things, and it might be a hoot (or a horror). I also didn't graduate from there, but it was ten years of my life. It's a negligible amount of money, so I should just suck it up and do it, right?

Comments

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

"The latest insanity from Republicans that gay marriage is bad for the economy, specifically small businesses?"

...wait, WHAT?

$$$

[keith418.livejournal.com]

Surely I can't be the only cynic who thinks that the states rushing to legalize gay marriage want the moolah? I mean, come on.

I got married. I know what weddings are like. Picture yourself in a sled being chased by wolves through a dark forest at night. The wolves are bad taste. The only way they will back off is if you throw them bundles of cash. They gobble the cash instantly and they keep coming...

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Have these Republicans not seen the Prop 8 Musical?

(Bah, sorry for all the edits!) Seriously, though... Neil Patrick Harris, "there's money to be made!".

Sheesh.

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

If you need/want full ADR facilities and/or a sound engineer and possibly a sound/film editor, I have some names and places for you.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

The workers are property. They are the property of the Republican party. This is why they are angry rather than chagrined at being thrown out of power(quite unlike the old school conservatives of Canada, after the same happened to them in the general election of '93.)
If the Lincoln memorial got up and came over to have dinner with them, they would not repent.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

So I'm sorry that you burned your mouth, but this idea of "mini tacos" intrigues me and I really want to learn more.

[kill.livejournal.com]

In this line of thinking, if ANYONE gets married, it costs the company more. So, yet AGAIN, their argument just as much against their idea of traditional marriage as anyone else's.

God, it's so pathetic.

[antelope-writes.livejournal.com]

That business about being bad for business is going to run smack dab into anti-discrimination laws, big time.

Family issues, no matter what sexual orientation, are hugely expensive for businesses. Maternity leave, paternity leave, caring for sick family members, picking up the kid from school because she's sick, funerals, insurance rate changes for weddings or births--they all cost a company money. The smart companies know this, and also know that if the difference between keeping an excellent employee working and happy is the cost of a spousal premium, they'll pay it. Dumb companies go out of business.

It has to be one of the most ridiculous straw men I've ever seen. I'd LOVE to see Rachel Maddow rip that one apart.

[rackmount.livejournal.com]

you should go to your reunion. it's oddly gratifying, or it confirms what you already thought. one or the other, either of which is totally fine.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Prioritizing company costs over human costs seems to be a running theme. This morning on the new they played a clip of some pundit (no idea who) complaining about Obama's new rules on gas-efficient cars with "But I wonder how companies are going to pay to produce these cars?" I keep thinking "And how can we as a society afford *not* to?"

Everyone else above has already made the point that even the business argument is dead wrong anyway. I just think the philosophical issue is even more important: we need to consider human and long-term costs as well as immediate financial ones, to make good decisions. Sometimes doing what's right morally does cost money. If it preserves our lives, liberty, pursuit of happiness etc, or our future, sometimes we just need to suck it up and pay. What's the point of being a rich society otherwise?

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Workers are property. This upsets you, and you make fun of me for being a commie pinko whathaveyou?

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

We've got a preliminary Writercon schedule up here, but it's definitely not final yet. (I am fairly certain it's going to go later into the day Sunday, and we haven't added the fan led events yet. Plus the timing of specific panels is bound to get shuffled around a bit.)

I'd recommend coming on Thursday. That way you can get registration out of the way early, and there's always lots of fun bonding in the con suite and hotel bar on Thursday night.