sundries

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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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lullabelle_/]

I read it whatever time you post. :)

I love your sundries list. Thank you for taking time each day to do it.

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

I didn't see Colbert, but I did see both you and AfterElton tweet about it within seconds of each other, so now I'm very curious to know what was said.

you all never read this stuff if I don't post before 9:30.

I'll admit, it's rare that I think to come back and re-check to see what's been added once I've read the day's "sundries," whatever time that may happen.

I'm glad to hear Patty's feeling better. Have a blast at Alvin Ailey!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I had no idea the Swedish uptake of male parental leave was so high - I knew it'd be higher than the US' (for all the reasons we can think of), but I wasn't expecting over four in five.

And good grief about the mosque-related bigotry. With no sense of history, either. Now short our memories are, that we forget that terrorism was also perpetrated by Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, and by anti-choice evangelicals here in the US.

No problem about the early sundries -works for me, as I'm on funny hours over the summer.

[gement.livejournal.com]

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

I actually have the opposite problem; once I've read a post, I don't go back to it unless there's a response to my comment, and then I find OH! Five more links on new topics.

It is entirely your journal and your deal, but I wanted to let you know that I always worry about missing later updates from your sundries, and wonder why you don't put them on the next day.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Those godless crazy Swedes, being all reasonable and modern! Actually I don't know how religious the Swedes may be, but I can envision the oppositions argument to paternity leave being based on that lovely old chestnut about apostate Europeans.

Kink bingo fic about assassains, y/n?

[sociallyawkrd.livejournal.com]

We aren't exactly a ground breaking family by my husband took 9 months of unpaid maternity leave after my maternity leave of 13 week ended when our son was born 10 years ago. It helped that we could handle our lives on one income...but it was pretty unheard of at the time unless they were planning on being Stay At Home Dads. I am glad he did. It made everyone's lives easier and better.

I hope to see better parental leave policies in the US one day.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Here's one for tomorrow, if you haven't already covered it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10220920.stm

"Eve Teasing is a catch-all term which usually involves young men irritating or upsetting girls or women by making sexual innuendos against them in public or in work places."

Bunch of sick bastards.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

One of my co-workers is in Sweden and I remember a few years ago when he said he'd be out for the next few months on paternity leave. I thought it was awesome and at the same time, I wonder how Sweden pulls it off. How is their productivity so high with so many days off for maternity and paternity leave? And the 120 sick days allowed to take care of sick kids! Seems unreal to me. In the U.S. at least, I see people abusing their handful of sick days as it is. I wonder if people's behavior would change if time off didn't seem so scarce.