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came home to cat puke and broken internet. Watching news and now have outrage fatigue over Gitmo and Don't Ask Don't Tell.

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sundries

I'm going to submit two papers for the academic programming at DragonCon. I've already submitted one. I need to find the stuff for the Snape, Gender and Heroism one. Some of it is on redstapler's computer and some of it is on my harrdrive at home. Fun. I may have to reconstruct that abstract. Super not fun. Extra specially not fun: the part where I submitted the paper THREE TIMES, because I didn't realize my submission went through because there's a problem with the thank you page. I feel like an asshole.

Relatives are coming out of the woodwork. Just got an email from one last night. Should respond today. Having a weird internal thing about how my parents probably expect me not to be out to other people or whatever, and also wondering how that's going to go. It's not, of course a coming out _thing_ but when someone who hasn't seen me in twenty years asks what I've been up to, Patty's part of that.

You can now register for WriterCon workshops. Mine, on writing fight scenes, doesn't have a participant cap, but if you register in advance you make everyone's life easier. Also, if you are attending my workshop and are working on specific things, let me know here, so I know how to divide my focus amongst swords or guns or fists or magic or what.

Contract for anthology and bio sent.

Still need to do paperwork for WriterCon vending (and re-contact my co-vendors) and we're also firming up a TW/DW/SJA fan-led event thingy.

BIRDS ATE OUR BASIL PLANT.

And oh fandom, crazy plagiarists are crazy.

ARRRGH

Ipod -- everything on it is GONE.

More specifically all it does is flash a circle with a line through it and say "do not disconnect," which I've never seen it do before.

Will it know to restore automatically when I get home? I sort of have to disconnect it from this computer here, as I can't restore on here? Do I have to go to Tekserve? Why does this happen?

ETA: Weird, I button mashed and now it's fine.

from DoV

I still hate this haircut, although in this photo you can only sort of see how the side of it is fucked up. On the plus side, you can see the awesome texture of the suit fabric. Yes.

Boston police ready, willing and able to use Twitter to alert public to zombie incursion

via saharafic:

Boston police ready, willing and able to use Twitter to alert public to zombie incursion.
http://consumerist.com/5263448/boston-police-department-we-will-let-you-know-when-the-zombies-come

Amazingly, this isn't a fake article.