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.
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.
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.
It's truly, truly disgusting and like living on a planet with unscented pea soup for atmosphere.
I refer to this sort of weather as being trapped in an enormous gym sock. If it's super awful, or I'm drunk, that often changes to other garments.
And wow, that is a delicious-looking call for papers.
It's interesting, looking at the Apple v. Microsoft thing. It looks like MS is still winning in market share for actual computers, but that Apple is dominating in smaller devices. To me, that means that there are people who are PCs for things like desktop and laptop devices, but using iPhones and iPods and iPads as well. Plus, they're including revenues from iTunes there, for which Apple is just the distributor, not the content designer. Which, to me, indicates that the article is wrong about consumer tech > other sectors. It's significant, though, and kind of neat.
I'm still parsing the Dan Choi stuff, and would be curious about your thoughts. I was too young and too solitary for Act Up to be a tangible influence for me, and I can't tell whether it's attitudes in my environment or the effect of groups like HRC and their strategies that makes my brain grind to a halt on this.
Re: blood donation, I had quit donating blood because my whole life/presentation/gender/sexuality is such that even if I am allowed to, it's as a result of the loophole in which I am perceived as "not really" what and who I am. I see what they're saying, but they're also leaving out blood borne pathogen rates among other minority groups that are high. Which, you know, I can't imagine that banning African American women would go over at all well...
I think Lt. Choi is doing the right thing, and I think it comes out of his sense of what the military is and his being a West Point graduate.
I also don't know that it will make a damn bit a difference and I fear for his well being.
Most importantly, his calls for less extreme civil disobedience from those who support DADT are critical and need to be listened to en masse. Although I no longer know if we live in a culture that is likely to. There are a lot of things that are different since I kept foam-core Act Up posters in my door room and jeered at cops for wearing rubber gloves at our protests; not all of those changes are good.
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Date: 2010-05-28 05:36 pm (UTC)I refer to this sort of weather as being trapped in an enormous gym sock. If it's super awful, or I'm drunk, that often changes to other garments.
And wow, that is a delicious-looking call for papers.
It's interesting, looking at the Apple v. Microsoft thing. It looks like MS is still winning in market share for actual computers, but that Apple is dominating in smaller devices. To me, that means that there are people who are PCs for things like desktop and laptop devices, but using iPhones and iPods and iPads as well. Plus, they're including revenues from iTunes there, for which Apple is just the distributor, not the content designer. Which, to me, indicates that the article is wrong about consumer tech > other sectors. It's significant, though, and kind of neat.
I'm still parsing the Dan Choi stuff, and would be curious about your thoughts. I was too young and too solitary for Act Up to be a tangible influence for me, and I can't tell whether it's attitudes in my environment or the effect of groups like HRC and their strategies that makes my brain grind to a halt on this.
Re: blood donation, I had quit donating blood because my whole life/presentation/gender/sexuality is such that even if I am allowed to, it's as a result of the loophole in which I am perceived as "not really" what and who I am. I see what they're saying, but they're also leaving out blood borne pathogen rates among other minority groups that are high. Which, you know, I can't imagine that banning African American women would go over at all well...
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Date: 2010-05-28 05:40 pm (UTC)I also don't know that it will make a damn bit a difference and I fear for his well being.
Most importantly, his calls for less extreme civil disobedience from those who support DADT are critical and need to be listened to en masse. Although I no longer know if we live in a culture that is likely to. There are a lot of things that are different since I kept foam-core Act Up posters in my door room and jeered at cops for wearing rubber gloves at our protests; not all of those changes are good.