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[rm]

Patty is feeling mostly better and the next seasons of Buffy and Angel have arrived. But, we won't be watching them tonight as we have tickets to Alvin Ailey.

Yesterday was long and stupid and I was pretty much non-verbal by the time I got home. Patty is thankfully very patient with me when I'm like that and I was able to wind down enough to sleep.

This weekend we may take a day-trip excursion to the beach. I also may bring my mother to Costco. Yeah, I'm scared too.

Anybody see Colbert last night? Was it just me or does he have a new writer? The show felt "edgier" (in a cranky, air quotes sort of way) and fail-y. Maybe it was just more racism and violence than I'm used to, evenin the face of the persona that is Colbert the host (as opposed to Colbert the performer performing Colbert) on the show.

Today you'll be able to read the first round stories in writerinadrawer, which is a fanfiction elimination competition for Torchwood fandom. Stories are shown without authors' names until after the voting is over and to vote you must provide reasons for your pick of the best and worst story of each round. I'm participating, mainly because I miss my fic output -- it soothes a place in me other projects don't. So I'm in it, maybe to win it, but mostly to write some stuff. The competition has a pretty wide variety of writers in it and the prompts are such we all have to stretch, so you should check it out. And that's all I can say about that.

Brittrack panelist application in for Dragon*Con.

Teen sailor located.

In Sweden 85% of men take paternity leave and it's considered weird if they don't. This is causing shifts in a lot of things, including the definition of masculinity. Let's think about all the reasons we can't get this done here, shall we?

Gay marriage passes in Iceland.

More anti-Muslim bigotry because of a proposed mosque near the WTC site.

French WWI cemetery desecrated with swastikas and other Nazi-related graffiti.

More as it happens, but you all never read this stuff if I don't post before 9:30.

Comments

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Yesterday was long and stupid and I was pretty much non-verbal by the time I got home. Patty is thankfully very patient with me when I'm like that and I was able to wind down enough to sleep.

For those who came in late (like me), I'm guessing you've talked about how you and Patty got together: what was that like? I like hearing about how couples become couples.

I don't have enough brain yet this morning to read the links, but I'll have more access to said brain later.

[rm.livejournal.com]

We met in fandon on the _riverside community. If you dig really hard you can see most of the flirting there and on here back when. We went to a bar on a Not Date and got hassled by this crazy dude who asked us if he'd be real if I stabbed him, when I tried to show patty how to use a dinner knife as a weapon because his stories about his ex-gf making him an omlete while wearing a thong were getting trying (that whole saga is here somewhere too).

Patty and I finally got together a couple of months later; three weeks after that she had to go to Cyprus on a dig, at which point my roommate declared she was moving to China and I should ask Patty to move in with me. It was a bit insane, but she said yes, and it's all awesome.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

I still can't believe that worked! :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

The part where I didn't kill you or the part where Patty said yes?

;)

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

In this case, the part where Patty said yes-- and that it worked out after that.

The parts where you didn't kill me over the course of those five years (and vice versa, to be fair) are so many and varied it's a little boggling. And somehow we still like each other!

[rm.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. We were pretty good at staying the hell away from each other when we were pissed, which helped a lot I think.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

I was also pretty good at going out, getting plastered, and spending the night with someone random when we were pissed . . . ahhh, good times.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well yeah. All I have to say is "it's not that there's a naked man on our couch, it's that his nakedness is ALL OVER OUR COUCH."

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

Wooooooowww, I had totally blocked that out. ::shudder::