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Patty and I had dinner with people last night. It was good and funny. It also tired us out. Tonight it's work, then laundry and packing and stuff for Chicago. All focus all the time. Also, yes, White Collar and Covert Affairs. More Buffy and Angel soon!

Oh hey, I made it to the final three in WIAD. Eeek. I feel like I'm on Project Runway, no challenge wins and going to Bryant Park.

Significant updates coming to my Dragon*Con schedule soon.

One-fifth of Pakistan is currently underwater.

Everyone should check out this piece on Tiger Beatdown that's actually several months old but I just got linked to today. It starts as a review of a book I have no desire to read because it sounds annoying. But the piece isn't really a book review, it's more about how we do discourse on the Internet. Note, I am not offering this to you in the spirit of "Oh, I have been wrong!" but in the spirit of "this sort of shit weighs on me all the time; there are no right answers more often than I'd like to think; sometimes I really hate myself; I try to do good; Good works -- very much including mine -- can be motivated by all sorts of things including spite and insecurity; God, there really is a lot of crap out there that needs to be called out; sometimes, this isn't fun anymore; please, tell me this is all hard for you too."

That said, check out Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on the Muslim Community Center slated for lower Manhattan. This is a long one, complex, and goes to a lot of places. In some ways its far from Olbermann's best rhetoric, because it's so all over place, but I respect its meanderings because he says a lot of things in it that are right to say, that another writer might have left out because it makes for a less efficient argument. It is also, among other things, in places a difficult listen, especially if you lost someone at the WTC. But it's worth listening to, all the way through.

Same-sex marriages on hold in CA -- the Ninth Circuit is in this now. I have no sense of the timeline on this. Anyone? (ETA: see first comment for answer).

New law allows sex-trafficking victims to clear their names.

The mystery of the khipus.

There's a ghost stroller in Brooklyn and no one is sure what it means.

Restoring the world's last surviving wooden whaling vessel.

The angry flight attendant already has reality TV offers: I TOLD YOU SO.

God, what the fuck with the throwing rocks at Tila Tequila? And hey, when she'd become a blonde?

Things I'm not linking too because they are from the department of the obvious: "Only children as social as peers" and "Teen sex doesn't always hurt grades."

I totally need this jacket, Y/Y? via jeliza.

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but in the spirit of "this sort of shit weighs on me all the time; there are no right answers more often than I'd like to think; sometimes I really hate myself; I try to do good; Good works -- very much including mine -- can be motivated by all sorts of things including spite and insecurity; God, there really is a lot of crap out there that needs to be called out; sometimes, this isn't fun anymore; please, tell me this is all hard for you too."

And maybe just because I'm a self-important bastard, but I kind of think if you're doing it right, this kind of thing is a given. Because I know I do it.

So you aren't alone.

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Thanks. I'm in a pretty low place about it all today.

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You shouldn't be.

In the end, both of us, I'd like to think, are being the best people we can be online and off. There are going to be times when the words don't match the deeds or where things are just FUBAR online and off, but the effort is there and we're starting from the right places. All it means is that we are human and while being human sucks sometimes, we can't do more than that.

There are times when it is easy and times when it's hard, but as long as I'm being me and me isn't such a bad thing. It's cool. Same goes for you.

Apologies in advance, but I am a sap and I hug, so I'm going to *hug* you now.

*hug*

Hey, it's what I do. And I do it pretty well. :D