sundries

[rm]

Tonight, Friends of the Text meeting followed by Inception: the Musical rehearsal.

Tomorrow, some dance classes.

Otherwise, I'm hoping for a dearth of weekend work so I can focus on Internet date with Patty (including watching some more Angel maybe), and my creative work (I want to make a list of every in-progress project I have, or idea that's on the shelf of "a thing to do" and make some prioritizing choices). I'd also like to get to The Social Network, although that's an urgency of see and not an urgency of do. I also need to tie up some fannish loose ends (as you can probably tell, my focus is a bit elsewhere right now, or at least manifesting differently).

I have signed up for this.

Pam Cook book is still on the night-table, but probably won't be touched for a week or so now. I need to let last night percolate a bit (a lot!) without wearing my criticism hat for a while.

Have made annoying discovery that I've been using two different tags for the same thing, and will now have to go back and fix stuff.

Still don't really have a plan for Monday. I'm waiting for genius (okay, more like serendipity) to strike.

I leave for Europe in 24 days. Find I am having a bit of "but I'll miss stuff happening in New York!" But I can certainly work with people I'm working with here remotely, and the lack of a social life during the Swiss part of the adventure means I can get lots of writing/development/something done. Plus, it does all make me seem cool, ne?

What is with the weather here? Last night was all about dramatic storms waking me up over and over. It was kind of irritating. And apparently a bunch of subway lines flooded out.

What do we think about Blu-Ray? Format of the future or annoying thing on which DVD editions we really care about are being released, but will go the way of the LaserDisc? HELP ME.

I was really saddened by news of Tony Curtis's death yesterday.

Tyler Clementi's death seems to be tearing Rutgers apart. Also, Clementi reported the situation to a resident advisor. How the hell did it end up like this?

Our people are still dying. On Wednesday, Raymond Chase hung himself in his dorm room at Johnson & Wales.

Is everything about Gatsby lately? Sure does feel like it. The New York Times goes location scouting.

New York may get retired Space Shuttle.

A marriage equality bill has been proposed in the Australian senate.

Everything is possible.

Comments

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

How did it happen that the RA did nothing. I will tell you how.

Because it was "oh, you'll just get used to it. It's hard for everyone their first year."

Aside from how "It gets better" parses to me (I have my own entry on that), there is the stone-cold fact that it's not because of fear of retaliation that kids don't go to adults for help. It's because they know the adults will do exactly jack divided by shite ABOUT it, so why bother at all.

I was given the same song and dance about my freshman roommate. We barely lasted one semester together. The housing people finally took me seriously when I uttered the phrase "Move one of us or somebody's going to the hospital. And I'm on the fencing team."

And why is that, you ask? Because it comes down to the one thing no school administrator has the balls to take on -- making it about cracking down on the bullies, first and foremost.

But that would actually involve, you know, *disciplining students*. And we can't have THAT, for fear of a lawsuit from the parents.

[tacky-tramp.livejournal.com]

Because it was "oh, you'll just get used to it. It's hard for everyone their first year."

Do you have a source for this? Because everything I've read has said that the RA did NOT do nothing, and that Rutgers was taking this seriously even before Clementi killed himself.

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

In truth, I was responding to rm's question, as well as my own experiences. I reread the NYTimes article, but found nothing as to what the RA did do.

Sadly, my experience was that the RA was just another in a long line of authority figures who did nothing.