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I'm tired. I need to start sleeping with the sleep mask again.

Meanwhile, Patty and I have achieved much scheduling. We know when her parents will be here, when we're dining with friends of hers, and, shortly, when we're seeing my parents. And where we're going for dinner the night before she heads out to Cardiff.

Last night Cricket got accidently smushed a bit by the bathroom door. Not only was she hissy and upset, but afterwards, she was scared of the door and eyed it nervously whenever Patty and I went to use the bathroom. We had to show her it was safe at great length. She was trembling and really scared of it. Cute silly cat.

Patty also took adorable videos of both cats, but I'm having trouble with remembering my YouTube password or how to work editing software so you'll just have to wait.

Had amazing mercury retrogradeness with the Paley Center yesterday. All now resolved satisfactorily but man, it was 120-seconds of aggravation I did not need.

Must drop a large number of checks in the mail today, including payments for all medical stuff related to my kidney stone (thank god for insurance), money re: Dragon*Con accommodations, and my class reunion ticket. I write it down here so I can remember it.

Pitch I said I was going to write last night? Yeah, didn't quite happen. Today's a long work today too, but I'll get to it soon. Same with reading my retconbook rewrite. Argh!

Because White Collar is on hiatus: Follow-up on the missing Corot.

YIELD TO CRAB.

The Times comments on the changing tone of readers' comments in response to 9/11 coverage. Xenophobia happening after 9/11: unfortunately not surprising. Xenophobia having this surge 9 years after: kinda weird to me.

Looks like Australians can breathe a sigh of relief: egregious Internet filter plans unlikely to be implemented.

Have been continuing to re-read an old RP/fic thing I was involved in. Cringe-worthy matters previously alluded to aside, I am struck by how much it reflects my anxieties about my creative worth and the public/private dichotomy, the state of queer rights issues at the time, and the sheer randomness of the stuff that can and often does come out of my mouth. Also, man, I need to file the serial numbers off that character and use him for something, because talk about commitment to detail on inner landscape.

Last night on Angel: Science fails but Spike uses force of will to be intermittently corporeal. Creepy, interesting and incoherent -- why does this show remind me of Torchwood again? Oh yeah. Heh.

Seems unlikely Patty and I will finish the show before she heads to Cardiff. So we're going to have remote viewing dates.

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Had amazing mercury retrogradeness with the Paley Center yesterday. All now resolved satisfactorily but man, it was 120-seconds of aggravation I did not need.

At least it's just the after-shadow at this point. And it'll be done soon.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Sciene fails by Spike uses force of will to be intermittently corporeal.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

typo, fixed ... but Spike... the thing with the coffee cup.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha. I just couldn't parse the version with "by." (Also, still need the second C in science.)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

The xenophobia is not surprising when one realizes that it's been induced for the midterm election, :(.

Add that to the fact that a lot of racists who didn't realize that they were racists have been forced out of the collective closet since the election of Barack Obama and well... It's a rather sad time in America right now, :(.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

One of the things that I think sort of hindered this season was the fact that David Boreanaz had an old knee injury flare up that limited his ability to do action sequences, and also resulted in some weight gain for him prior to filming this season. He talked about it in an interview I read of his a few years back. In the middle of shooting, he had surgery on his knee which they basically had to work around.

In spite of all this, I think they did some great things in this season. Having Spike was a plus for me just because I've long ago decided that James Marsters needs to be a part of my gay threesome.

[sethg]

I think it was Joshua Micah Marshall (of the Talking Points Memo blog) who suggested that all the xenophobes have been crawling out from under their rocks since Obama’s election because Dubya—who, for all his faults, spoke frequently about how America is not at war with Muslims as a class—is no longer the Republican standard-bearer.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

I was going to mention that, as well. I forget where I read it from, but he apparently also privately pressured conservative organizations to lay off as well. Money does strange things.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I think I saw in another recent article that, in part, Barry Goldwater actually worked to restrain the John Birch Society at a time when it looked as though they were their era's answer to the Tea Party.

[effervescent.livejournal.com]

I really think the economic situation has a lot to do with the xenophobia as well. In 2001 things were going well, Bush came in, and for a few years things were hunky-dory - but then everything crashed, and so people are scared and depressed. Depressed and scared people seem to be more resentful and hateful towards other people they deem to be outsiders.

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the economy having a wobble in 2001? I seem to recall that things started going downhill soon after Bush came in, so we got to blame Bush for it even though it probably wasn't really his fault, as he hadn't been around long enough.

2001 xenophobia felt very much like it was motivated by momentary fear and anger, rather than the sort of insidious xenophobia we're seeing now, if that makes any sense. I guess in 2001, I would think "You're saying those things because of how you feel and are probably an okay person who will get over it." whereas now I just think "You're a xenophobic asshole."

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Kinda weird, yeah, but not at all inexplicable. Very depressing, though.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Re: Dragon*Con, the extra cot cost... $1.

I lol'ed. :D

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaha. The hell?

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

DOLLAR BED.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Poor Cricket! I hope she and the door find ways to coexist without undue terror or loathing...