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[rm]

Thanks, all, for the birthday wishes, super cool.

Had a long video chat with Patty yesterday. We tentatively know when she's coming to see me in CH (one month, yay!) and have booked us a hotel for the duration, since there are reasons to think that corporate apartment situation might not really be what we need. Aggravating, because CH is so expensive, but I was honestly just grateful to find us a room, since they apparently like little towns on lakes when it's cold.

We've also been talking about our big non-working trip of 2011. Cruise option is still on the table. Then, the "let's rent a houseboat for a weekend in Amsterdam when it's cold" morphed into "let's rent a houseboat on the Seine for a week in Spring/Summer" which is now dueling with "let's rent a boat and sail around France's canals for a week or two." Er, yeah. Awesome, ne? Maybe a week of each?

I gotta register some domain names and do production things this morning after I finish this report.Done. Now we're into hurry up and wait mode. Soon? To the post office!

I look so good today it's ridiculous. (You know what's helpful? Actually having some male fashion role-models whose builds aren't that dissimilar from mine. Like, sure, Keith Olbermann wears fantastic clothes, but that don't help tiny little ol' me).

Meanwhile, argh! Email from the class reunion. First, dress code is apparently casual, so jeans and a "nice shirt that isn't stained" will be fine. Okay, look, I know we're Stuyvesant High School, but this is costing me $80 and is in the meat-packing district: STEP UP, PEOPLE. Secondly, the email went on and on about the goodie bag from our sponsors. Hi, this isn't a trade show or an awards ceremony. Sponsors? schwag? what now? Sometimes I hate my high school.

This all leaves me with a dilemma on what to wear, because wow, that dress and those shoes might be a little much now. Maybe wear the dress with boots (that are flat, meaning I won't be playing 5'10"+ for the event)? Or wear the awesome boy outfit I'm wearing today? I don't know. It's not like I won't get to wear the dress again in CH when I'm hosting the awards ceremony.

Oh yeah, did I mention that's part of what I'm doing in CH? Ayup. My mom keeps asking what that means, and I keep saying "It's like I'm Hugh Jackman!" Is this helping? No. No, it's not.

Did anyone in NYC make it to that candle light vigil last night? I was thwarted by rain, and, I must confess, a desire for ShakeShack, which has a gluten-free policy I was pleased to discover. Look, at least I'm honest.

Help Bacon.

This is not okay: Teacher reassigned after he tells a student in response to a direct and relevant question that he's gay in a manner that struck me as perfectly age appropriate. This is something particular I don't talk about a lot, and I deal with it somewhat less for being a woman, but the thing where I am assumed to be a predator towards children because of my gender presentation and sexuality? Causes me a great deal of upset.

Imam's wife discusses death threats.

I didn't know there were still squeegee guys in New York. Apparently so.

Well, small favors. Love Never Dies not coming to Broadway in 2011

azn_jack_fiend wrote me The Sea of Sleep for retconbookwrite (I'm still finishing mine up for my recipient). It's a lovely historical for one of the better tie-in novels, The House that Jack Built, and it has some of the best historical accuracy I've seen in this fandom. Also, hello, women characters! Fic headers provide all the background info you need if you've not read the book.

Listened to some of the commentary tracks on Moulin Rouge for the first time in ages while cooking dinner over the weekend. I'd forgotten how really bizarreo they get in places (the thing about the bullfighting!).

Totally missed Boardwalk Empire last night. Do I care?

Comments

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, happy birthday. Knew it was coming but not exactly when.

The houseboat thing sounds absolutely awesome, but I have no further input than that! :)

[torenheksje.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Just say "no" to the idea of a houseboat in A'dam in the winter. You will freeze your bits off. No insulation on those things.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

When you talk about renting a houseboat on the Seine, you know all I can think of is Highlander, right? XD XD XD

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm not a Highlander person, so I am in fact oblivious. Talk to me.

[sociallyawkrd.livejournal.com]

Great. Now when I mention this to my husband he will almost certainly want to do it.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Same here, lol.

[kshandra]

Great, now you've got me doing it.

[miep.livejournal.com]

Where are the pictures of this birthday awesomeness?

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Well, you know I vote for houseboat on Seine. Or a combination of that and a canal trip. In 30 years here, I've never known anyone who's done the former, but the people I know who've done the latter have all enjoyed it. Actually, in 30 years I've never even been on a houseboat on the Seine. Must rectify that situation someday.

My old boss Mort Rosenblum, who used to live on one, wrote a sweet book about the river from source to estuary, btw: The Secret Life of the Seine, published in 1994 and still in print.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Hope you have a great birthday! :)

[usullusa.livejournal.com]

I didn't make it to vigil either, but several people I know did. A few of my classmates were the one who organized it in conjunction with the lgbt office at NYU. Apparently the whole thing came together in just four days thanks to a massive outpouring of support. I am told there were glowsticks and the whole thing was very moving and the mayor turned out to make some very big promises about lgbt bullying.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

Sorry for the wishes being slightly belated.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

A very happy birthday to you.

[sanat.livejournal.com]

Houseboat on the Seine sounds awesome. And happy birthday to you!

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

My parents rented a houseboat in Amsterdam for a few months in 2005. They absolutely loved it. (I also visited while they were there, and I can definitely second that sentiment.)

Happy birthday. :)

[kiia.livejournal.com]

Well, as usual I'm *totally* behind, but Happy You-Day!

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

A little late in the queue, but tanti auguri a te! And charmed to hear that Swiss trysting may be in your future. (Hot springs anywhere in your vicinity?)

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

I look so good today it's ridiculous. (You know what's helpful? Actually having some male fashion role-models whose builds aren't that dissimilar from mine. Like, sure, Keith Olbermann wears fantastic clothes, but that don't help tiny little ol' me).

My kneejerk reaction is to say Philipp Lahm, but that's only because he's approximately my size. However, footballers as fashion role-models is probably a bad, bad idea in general.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

happy birthday!

and i think I vote for wearing the awesome boy outfit. really i vote for whatever will be most comfortable, whatever that might mean.

[bunnybutt.livejournal.com]

1) Happy birthday!

2) Did not realize HS reunion was for Stuyvesant. Watched Frontrunners this weekend, and now I'm laughing even harder than I was while watching. Thanks.

3) Cute boy outfit.

[coneyislandbaby]

Belated happy birthday wishes, hope it was an amazing day.