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[rm]

After a lot of agony over footnotes and a breakdown over my bibliography last night, the paper is out the door this morning. Whatever will be will be. I didn't really have the time to do what I did on it this morning, but I hit the point where it was making me mentally unhinged, and said "fuck it."

Rethinking the autopilot.

Confess your tales of playing in the tracks.

Gay marriage ratified in Portugal. via brigidsblest.

A gay couple in Malawai has been convicted for holding a public engagement ceremony and faces up to 14 years in jail.

Oil is now washing ashore in Key West. There's a pretty good likelihood of this getting into currents that will drag it up the entire East Coast. Say goodbye to the beach, folks on the western side of the Atlantic.

Last night on Angel: Darla goes into labor, and I'm still torn about this plotline and everyone's ability to act their way out of all the places where it's UNSPEAKABLY FUCKING STUPID. But, I can see how there are also places where it might really really work, and, of course, where it's intersecting with the Torchwood experience. And hey, Lorne's bedroom is pretty great. I don't know why, but I really loved that insight into the character.

Comments

[marcmagus]

Is the oil trying to get home to bp?

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

A rueful laugh, is what that got. (Admittedly, I'm sick and perhaps a little delirious. I decided yesterday that "Delerious From Sneezing" should be a band name.)

Anyway: A rueful laugh, is what that got.

[marcmagus]

(Good band name.)

Thanks; that's about what I was going for. Dark humor helps me deal.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

Convinced? Convicted?

I can't even begin to discuss the BP oil spill. It's enraging, infuriating, terrifying and ultimately just so, so sad. A testament to human greed.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Sorry, typo, I'll fix.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

As someone on twitter pointed out, it's not an oilspill.
When you spill your drink, it doesn't keep spilling.

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

Re: the oil spill. Palin and her ilk are trying to paint this as "Obama's Katrina" but it is looking more like "BP's Chernobyl". Thing is, as long as it is possible for water to freeze outdoors, and folks don't see birds falling dead out of the sky in their neighborhood, pollution and climate change aren't going to be taken seriously.

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

On "Rethinking the Autopilot" -- this is actually why, on long trips or when I'm tired, I don't dare use cruise control. The more I have to actively concentrate on, the better I am at keeping alert.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Yes, this. I feel the same way.

[graene.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[laura47.livejournal.com]

oh, now you are where i stopped watching angel! now i need to angst about whether I will ever want to watch those seasons and if I should try to avoid spoilers. Probably shouldn't bother, as I know all the high level spoilers, so it's silly.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

RE: the tracks:

Note to self: make sure you always carry your own grabber/reacher stick on the subway. I rarely take it, but I am trying to learn to always take a stick with me when I take the wheelchair anywhere, and the idea of maybe saving some moron from being hit by a train might help me remember to do so (and figure out a wheelchair holster for the damn thing).

And this is yet another really good argument for a wrist strap on all cellphones. (That allow one; I don't think the iPhones have an attachment point, although one could add one via a case I think.)