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Tomorrow. Patty comes home tomorrow. This is highly excellent.

Today is going to be super productive. Why? Because I say so.

Still working on putting the list together out of your contributions for the holiday marketplace thingy.

Wow, my "teasing is confusing" post got a lot of comments. A few clarifications:

1. I don't think the other person was intending to be malicious and I feel badly that I may have upset her by not understanding.

2. I never had any doubt that she was telling me the truth about the outlets until she said she wasn't.

3. I was plugging in my machine and rushing off to get food in a short break, so I was barely looking at her when this happened, as I think is common in New York. It seems odd to me, in a city where we have to often pretend other people don't exist to get by, that I was supposed to be paying enough attention to someone I'd never spoken to before I ascertain their intent in so detailed a fashion.

4. We had not spoken or made eye-contact in anyway before this thing happened.

Kali and I have finished the first draft of the first chapter. Yayness.

A grand jury has been convened to see if the US can charge Assange with... something.

Reviving rituals of tending to the dead.

Act Out: Acting classes for gay actors.

Nearly 40 books on LGBT issues have been vandalized at Harvard.

Stateless babies, made to order.

An ongoing source of personal rage: Wal-mart is once again trying to get into NYC.

Speaking of Wal-mart, they are now a host-site for the Department of Homeland Security (I still find that name rage-inducing), "If you see something, say something" campaign.

This is wild: Synthetic ice-rink.

I think any scholar who does any remotely pop-culture work would be foolish not to try to get a piece into this collection on Neil Gaiman, which is sure to be quite high profile and sell very well. To my great annoyance, however, I'm feeling rather bereft of ideas myself.

Paul Cornell has started his highly excellent (but not as excellent as Patty) 12 Blogs of Christmas.