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And home Internet is working again!

Need a job? copperbadge set up a networking post in his journal.

I'm out of my horrible NaNo funk and over 10K. Which like 3K behind, but hey. I ight be able to do more tonight after I work on other deadlines.

Am I just hideously old-fashioned for refusing to put up holiday card or wish list things before the day after Thanksgiving? Is everyone else already holiday shopping? Is that why my book is suddenly regularly being ranked better than 2K on Amazon.com? (WHERE IS MY ROYALTY CHECK?)

"When the Berlin Wall fell, dear Frau Schubert, I began dreaming migraines": Berlin poems.

In America I feel we have often made an art form of selling our souls for meager safety. This whole health care situation is no exception.

Looks like New York is the next big gay marriage battleground. I'm not looking forward to this.

Gay parents and our child-centric times. Do I detect a weird moment of judgment and yucky double-standards when the article notes "While girls raised by lesbian mothers seem slightly more likely to have more sexual partners, and boys slightly more likely to have fewer, than those raised by heterosexual mothers, neither sex is more likely to suffer from gender confusion nor to identify themselves as gay"?

Gender expression and high school: "When a principal asks a boy to leave his handbag at home, is the request an attempt to protect a student from harassment or harassment itself?"

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Personally I don't think you're old-fashioned at all in not wanting to move on to Christmas until after Thanksgiving is over and done. I've been complaining about it for quite a few years now and each year it seems to get worse. Like this year, they started putting the Christmas stuff in the stores at the end of September. My complaint is that it belittles the wonderful holidays of Halloween and Thanksgiving. I know with the economy being how it is right now, the stores want the Christmas buying season to be longer. But I refuse to give up Halloween and Thanksgiving and think they should be given their own time in the spotlight without Christmas encroaching on them, whatever the stores might think.