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It's weird being able to talk to Patty while she's away. Normally, she's on a dig and it's nearly impossible. This time around, we can email and talk a lot. Yet, in some ways that makes it much harder to deal with the fact that she is away, because I'm reminded of it all the time -- so close and yet so far. Constant longing. But, if the CH visit works out, I'll see her in one month. So yay.

Elsewise, there is little to report since I last wrote, 7 hours ago. Tonight, though, is all about creative meetings.

OMG, I have GOT to submit something to this. I don't have an idea in my head for it, but I must find one. MUST.

This made me laugh myself stupid. Note, while accompanying image is not NSFW, it is the cover of a porn movie DVD, so if someone noticed the big Hustler logo, that might not be okay for the office. It's okay for rollick's office though. Let her tell you why.

Some days the news is too much -- not for all the horror, but for the juxtaposition of headlines. See today's two side-by-side winners at CNN: "Cops: Mom taped toddler to wall" and "Cancer patient: I see Jesus in my MRI".

Things I can't believe I'm linking to (which may be a theme for today): iCarly and the spaghetti tacos. But hey, defictionalization!

In more serious news: A dancer living with AIDS talks about her life.

An inside look at the gay panic in Uganda. via supergee.

Also from supergee: How a placebo currency saved Brazil. It both makes perfect sense and is sort of brain-bending. It also explains why the Brazilian currency is named as it is.

Meanwhile, hazing charges at Sigma Gamma Rho.

Just had my first 2010 encounter with "the reason for the season" crap. Jesus is _a_ reason for the season. Not _the_ reason. Also, it's early October? Give us a month, yeah?

the_xtina thinks there should be a poll about a photo I linked to last night. Clickies below the cut.




[Poll #1628322]

And, just so we're clear, that distraction choice? That's for you browneyedgirl65

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[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

But not at all abnormal, by my perception, anyway; I usually kid that I'm just a fictional sociopath. Which I guess is really part just how I roll and in part because my academic background is linguistics; I always look at language first in a text, and anything else that comes from that I suppose I tend to view as a product of the language rather than a graspable or aspirational thing in itself.

... Which has nothing to do with responding to photos, but there you go. Yeah, this, is just not a world I ever walk in, but I can totally see why it would resonate with you; in fact, I'd probably think of you if I'd seen this shot completely elsewhere. What would your ticky box answers be, if you don't mind my asking?

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's definitely the power dynamic I respond to in the photo, far, far more intensely than the gender (which is interesting, because in terms of gender, if you said to me when you're styling yourself as a woman or as man, I'd point to this image, because it nails what I want to project in regard to genders very strongly). Certainly, it's the "depends on the day" answer. I've spent a lot more time being the woman in this photo, than the man, and it's not something that sits easy with me, even if it's true. For me, being posed chaffs, even if there's a part of me that's always looking to be chosen for same. And being the person doing the posing. Always, always so much fucking harder and heavier a task than I think it's gonna be. Always. Which then kicks the longing back the other way. That's the dilemma of it.