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Getting diagnosed with celiac disease causes girl's health insurance to be cancelled:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-thu-problem-briana-rice-sep17,0,771811.column

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sundries

As applicable, L'shanah tovah! But hey, why not? I'll take all the good wishes I can get.

Tomorrow it is also International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I feel like this might be taxing, although, to be fair, I generally find it vaguely annoying.

Yes, bodlon, you can stop laughing now.

Meanwhile, things I'm working on:

pro:

- Lesbian werewolf story (deadline, front of brain!)
- Expansion/focus of the Nick Cave thing (front of brain)
- abstract for Bristol (front of fucking brain!)
- gay airship pirate thing (very much not front of brain right now)
- chick lit novel (front of brain!)
- Mairome novel (not front of brain right now)
- WWII novel with Kali (not front of brain right now)
- Fantasy novel with Kali (more front of brain than it's been in a long time)

fan:

- TW virtual series -- and I actually did work on it today! (I'm really glad I'm working on this as it's forcing me to write plot-heavy with less sex and less obvious emotion, and it's a skill of use and that I'm actually quite good at, I just never default to it).
- Jack/OMC, post CoE very much in the tone of the Annie fic... um, yeah. (front of brain)
- Jack/Weeping Angles (front of brain)
- Jack/OC 1930s (so back of brain right now)
- Torchwood/West Wing AU (want to get this moving up the list)
- Gwen, Rhiannon post CoE (mid brain)
- EtGB, chapter 3 (currently in Kali's hands)
- Descensus with Kali (really, it's returning to our thoughts)

I'm relatively happy with this mix of pro- and fan- work as well as mix of tonal qualities, skills, emotions and issues they're all working with.

I sorta want to make a tiny color coded little chart, so I can post what I worked on each day, as I do touch a lot of these things briefly every day, although that's not always apparent in output.

My whole life, whenever I got sick, it was always "what did you do?" from my parents. It's harder to blame them for that now, when it seems like that's our national consensus on illness. We asked for it. Especially if we're people of color or female or queer or poor.

As much as we need a public option (and I'm very possibly in favor of total single payer, because FUCK THESE INSURANCE COMPANIES SO HARD), what scares me the most about healthcare reform is that in a country of our biases and religious neuroses that public option seems as if it will get easily hijacked by various people's harmful, hateful moral agendas and simply wind up not helping lots of people who get sick, because their illnesses were fucking earned. It's that like awful phrase from the 80s about the "innocent victims of AIDS."

I'm very concerned that the inadequate deal with the devil we're going to have to make will further enshrine the idea that the sick are the guilty.

Abstractly, America is so interesting: to be unlucky is a sin! Living it at both the small and large scale kinda sucks though.

Patty was home late last night after many adventures, but we had the most fun when she got home, and I even did a little cleaning and redrew our whiteboard calendar before she did.

the referrendum

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-referendum/

Quite a lot of what passes itself off as a dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices as the only right or natural ones by denouncing others’ as selfish or pathological or wrong. So it’s easy to overlook that hidden beneath all this smug certainty is a poignant insecurity, and the naked 3 A.M. terror of regret.

The problem is, we only get one chance at this, with no do-overs. Life is, in effect, a non-repeatable experiment with no control.

1. I loved this piece, and it's worth reading.

2. It made me think, "This is why people like stories about vampires and other long-lived/immortal creatures, because it can seem like a life with do-overs. But it's not -- that's the horror."

DVD ordering

Let's say I think Amazon is evil and I have bad past history with things from Deep Discount DVD just getting lost.

Who do I order DVD's from?

At the moment, particularly looking for good prices on Whoniverse (new series) stuff.

also from Dragon*Con

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Photo from one of two Broad Universe Rapid Fire Readings. That's my fabulous new mint green shirt from Duchess. I'm still waiting for any of the not!Ianto pics to surface.