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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 stopped celebrating holidays a long time ago, simply because the holiday became a reason for my family to get together and drink, argue, and hate each other.

Later on I found that the holidays were ok to celebrate in a general way - like being the person who gets invited to some house or another as a 'holiday orphan' and stand around looking awkward while the family has family time.

Now I find that no matter what the holiday , there is some person or group that is screaming about how I'm horribly oppressing someone, celebrating a mass murderer, or partaking in the celebration of evil by taking part in the holiday.

I don't do holidays anymore.

I do good , thoughtful things for my friends all year long. In 99.5% of the cases my friends understand that I'm doing these things to celebrate their place in my life. The .5% think that I'm hitting on them, want sex in return, or some other nonsense. Luckily I eject these people from my life directly and never have to hear from them again.

I celebrate the people in my life all the time, not just once a year. It's just better that way. I don't offend anyone by sending the wrong card, mispronouncing or misunderstanding their traditions, or something equally unintentional and unforgivable.

All I really ask for is the respect, understanding , and forgiveness ( when needed ) from the people in my life. That to me is more valuable than any thing they could wrap and hand to me praying that they made the right choice.