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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?

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[azn-jack-fiend.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! And thanks for the link!

Someone on my f-list attended the vigil and said it was rainy but very moving.

I did the canal thing with my family about five years ago, in the Bourgogne region, and it was absolutely fantastic, though a little bit cramped, the way we did it (6 people in one boat).

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Did you guys find it hard to learn to drive the boat. We're a little taken aback by "no experience necessary, we'll show you when you get here" when neither of us even drive.

[azn-jack-fiend.livejournal.com]

Driving the boat is easy. All you have to do is go in a very slow, straight line. But navigating the locks gets kind of exhausting. You have to tie down the boat each time. If you're going through a stretch with a lot of locks it's really better to have more than 2 people, that way you can trade off and relax more. But part of the fun is the physical labor, as well, and pretending to be a real sailor.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaa, see, I am ALL OVER THIS. And it explains why on the website every suggested route lists how many locks there are. I can already see msyelf driving Patty mad singing relevant Jacques Brel songs over and over and over again.