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Food yesterday: 1 cherry bakewell tart without the maraschino cherry (which I gave to Patty because I think they are gross), 1 vitamin water (defense flavor), 1 fruit roll-up, 9 mini chicken tacos with salsa, 1 strawberry frozen yogurt with chocolate sprinkles and coconut, a handful of chocolate covered pomegranate jelly candies, 1 slice of swiss cheese, 1 slide of cheddar cheese, 2.5 bratwursts with mustard (no bun), spinach cooked with garlic, shallots and sweet peppers, 1 glass of apple raspberry juice, more of the pomegranate candies.

Poor Patty has jury duty today.

If you want an abortion in Okalahoma, even if you've been raped, you will now need to watch an ultrasound of your pregnancy and basically be told how cute your baby is. Not cool.

Lovely article from a straight, cis-woman engaged to a transman that gets to so many things about gender and love and expectations and everything else. via usullusa.

Mississippi high school pretends that lesbian who wore a tux in her senior photo never existed. The school claims there is legal precedent to support its decision.

Haiti, now that we've started to forget.

New York City as a lab for nearly-lost languages.

I'm messing around with ad.ly in Twitter. We'll see if it's good/evil/weird/useful. I do like that I can approve or deny each individual advertiser, versus just the category battles I have with Adsense.

Last night it was back to Angel Yet again, the guy who plays Wesley is such a good actor. I feel like he got cast in Buffy because he was funny and looked just right for the part and then they discovered he was AMAZING and he sort of became the go to guy when the whole thing with Glenn Quinn went down. Because SO AWESOME. He can turn on a fucking dime.

Meanwhile, the problem with the Darla plotline is that I don't actually care about her, nor do I care about Angel's obsession with her. I do care about Wes and Cordelia having to put up with Angel's obsession with her, however.

I thought "The Trial" was extremely well done, but in the last test thought it got kind of obvious. Of course it was about accepting death to win life. Whether that was the right call (eventhough it worked) for Angel to make though is highly debatable. The tester wasn't wrong that Angel probably has a greater contribution to make and while a man can't decide who's life is more valuable, someone who is Leading a Team Against Evil -- well that's his fucking job, you know? But that all worked out.

EXCEPT IT DIDN'T! Holy crap, I thought Darla accepting the symmetry of her life and death was so lovely and then fucking Dru shows up! Holy crap.

Also: I hate Cordy's new haircut, but the Wolfram & Hart slimeball's new haircut is awesome sauce.

Finally: Why is David Boreanaz a better actor when he's playing Angel acting, than when he's just playing Angel?

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That Oprah article about the girl and her transman fiance was bloody ADORABLE. So much bless - cheers for that link.

And YAY for the Wesley enthusiasm! Alexis Denisof is absolutely my favourite, he really is - dear HEAVENS, that man is versatile, and his English accent is superb. (I get a terrible cognitive dissonance whenever I hear him speaking in his real voice. So wrong!)

Aww...you don't like the Darla plotline, though? I'm much fonder of the Darla/Angel backstory than I am of the Buffy/Angel schtick - I loved the way that reintroducing Darla turned that whole Buffy/Angel thing on its head, and made it Angel working through his Darla issues by getting stalkerly obsessive about another cute little blonde chick who could kick his ass into the middle of next week. And she loves him, in her evil, fucked up fashion - "God doesn't want you, but I still do." Aww, Darla. I loved what Julie Benz brought to the table, and that she was the first person we ever saw on BtVS, faking us out with the possibility that she would be Buffy, or a victim, and actually being the vampire who chomps on the schoolboy.

And now we get the Darla/Drusilla double act, for which I have a terribly soft spot. I &hearts Dru, Dick Van Dyke accent and all.