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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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I pick up items for gifts all year around. Whilst I tend to give them all year round too rather than waiting, around this time I do try to make an effort to put them away in the container in closet for such things around this time of the year. I also craft a lot of our gifts, or intend to anyway, and so ought to have already started doing that - I never seem to leave myself enough time, as I think, around August would be ideal for getting everything done.

I don't celebrate thanksgiving, and would prefer to not even acknowledge it at all, even as a marker to begin holiday shopping. I'd probably use Halloween as a marker if I were to feel the need for one.


I can't read the article, because I don't have a login, but I'd think that regardless of if the request was an attempt to protect a student from harassment or not, it's still wrong if only because it's the wrong approach. The principal should not be asking victims or potential victims to stop doing perfectly sensible things which the perpetrators use as an excuse - the principal should be finding and punishing said perpetrators, and finding ways to discourage future acts.