sundries

[rm]

It's cooler today, but about a 100 times more humid. It's truly, truly disgusting and like living on a planet with unscented pea soup for atmosphere.

Today's goal: Letting a bunch of anger go because it doesn't matter if it's right or justified or if I'm entitled to my emotions. It's not solving anything, it's not going to solve anything, and it's just distracting from pretty much everything else in my life. Ah, parents.

Another hard day of work today, but then things ease up and Patty and I have dance tickets tomorrow and there's a vintage beach thing we're going to on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Last night Patty and I had a hilarious and sort of bizarre conversation about how Cardiff will be good for her career as a pirate.

In the UK does anyone have a feeling about Easy Hotel vs. Travelodge?

Having done a bit of reading on Tomorrow's Joe yesterday, I think I'll be able to manage writing my proposal for the D*C academic conference today.

Also, this just crossed my radar. There's adapting the death stuff (current paper isn't just about Ianto at all, but there's plenty of room to do something on death and mourning across DW properties, because yo, regeneration), and there's the deromanticization of immortality across Jack's arc thing I've been screwing with. I'll come up with something.

I'm also being a responsible person and joining The Popular Culture Association (today) and The Science Fiction Research Association (actually in 2011, since they run their membership by calendar years and it's stupid to join now, grrr). 'Cause like I should, or something.

A non-scientific poll on body image and geek events. One thing that popped out at me: over 40% of respondents (who are overwhelmingly female) report having experienced unwanted touching at cons. Check it out.

Anti-Muslim hate on NYC buses. via redstapler.

A man who sleeps with a prostitute is not allowed to donate blood for one year. A gay man may not donate blood ever. Debate on blood donation rules heats up.

Lt. Dan Choi is starting a hunger strike in response to DADT.

Apple surpasses Microsoft in tech. The dreams of my 80s childhood, vindicated!

A horse is not a car: tales of the mounted police.

Last night on Buffy: I'm so glad that Dawn shoplifting thing is finally out. Because that was so awkward and looming. Not sure how I feel about Willow refusing to do magic when it was a pragmatic solution to a potentially life and death problem. And then fucking Riley comes back! Like the wife. Riley's still boring. Spike is "the Doctor?!?" I like Buffy's acceptance that dumb-ass schemes are just part of who Spike is. Love her calling him William. Don't necessarily believe she was just using him or that I would have written her walking away there and in that way. Was grateful for the break from Evil Nerd Conglomerate.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

That may be true, I can't recall (since, again with the, I can't give blood for like 800 other reasons). What I meant was it does not explicitly exclude gay women for being gay, and I got the impression from what eumelia said that in Israel is excludes gay women as well.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Aha, I understand.

Including gay women in a ban doesn't make any sense to me. But I suppose that the medical establishment just doesn't always make sense.

[rm.livejournal.com]

And it turns out I misread eumelia, so it's moot. But yeah, it wouldn't make sense at all. Israel is, as far as I can tell from my discussions with her, very "what the hell is a lesbian?"

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

HAHA! That's a great summery of Lesbian/Bisexual Women' visibility in Israel!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Well, on top of that, the whole donation ban thing was supposed to scrub the blood pool of HIV and Hep C, and women tend not to transmit either of those to other women. (And now, of course, there's all the complicated "if you lived in these places where variant CJD has been found for X period of time, you can't give blood" stuff.)

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Huh? Nope, there's no exclusion of gay women for being gay. Was I vague?

There's barely acknowledgement that gay women have sex (with each other, without a man somewhere to watch).

[rm.livejournal.com]

You were slightly vague. But now everyone clarified to everyone at the same time which has actually made this more confusion, but we all understand what's going on now!

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

It's a messy thread!

Sorry for the confuzzling.