news you can't really use, but I'm telling you anyway

Have heard more from Patty. She heads to the site tomorrow, so not sure what contact will be like. She does have a mobile there now. I just have to wait to call until she can get in touch to give me a sense of her schedule there (since archaeology can often involve working 6 days a week and getting up at 5am and going to bed at 7pm). There have been stories involving monkeys and motorcycles.

Question for fellow academics/acafen: does anyone have any suggestions for academic work that is any of the following? I need to do some background reading and I need to cite some stuff for a small section in a paper I'm working on. Thnx.
- something that doesn't suck that looks asexuality in literature or media from a queer theory perspective
- old/bad/offensive material that presents asexuality as the absence of orientation instead of an orientation in and of itself

D&J meeting last night. We've got a scene and another song. It's really good.

Did you all see Rachel Maddow last night? I thought she knocked it out of the park, particularly with her words about why we tell stories about heroes. So compelling; so interesting to me for totally tangental to the context reasons. ( Read more... )

Yes, I've heard about Luhrmann making noises about shooting Gatsby in 3D (How many people emailed or tweeted me about this yesterday? Go on, guess). ( this got kinda long, and slightly thinky )

LfT: I'm loving not being on LJ. To the extent that I sort of want to be here even less. I knew I felt like I was suffocating, but I didn't realize how much. But I'm also trying to control the random brain clutter factor over there and like the social and fandom platform LJ provides. Also? Having LfT actually does make it easier for me to be here despite everything I've just said.

Kali and I are about 100 pages into our novel. About 30 of those pages will probably get killed is my guess, because we could spend days happily writing our characters talking about the weather. But oh man, this thing is ROCKING.

Who wants to suggest markets for a non-comedic story that I'm convinced isn't SF/F and technically has no supernatural content, but is narrated by a dead iguana who has feelings about cellular decay? I don't know where it came from, but it did.

I have ordered more things from Trashy Diva. Specifically a dress I've had my eye on for years, that finally went on sale for a price I was willing to pay. I think there's a lot to be said about my sense of female gender presentation through the lens of gay male culture and the whole thing where the only dresses I wear are from TD. Ya know?

Shit ton of work today. If I'm good and finish and the snow does seem too scary, I can go to ECD tonight. Right now work awaits.

Stuff you should know: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/01/11/psas/ (warning signs of stroke; floods in Australia).

LJ'er needs help moment

Roommate fuckery has left an LJ'er with no heat and a $900 oil bill. This is life and death stuff this time of year. There's an ill teen involved and a cat and the person in need of help just got out of the hospital for a lung-related illness.

http://fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com/1398308.html

ETA: Goal has been reached.

Thanks all!

Please see most recent post.

Update: LJ'er still in need

ETA: The oil situation was worse than thought, and there's all this fuckery again because of how the roommate broke the contract with the oil company and how long it takes to get money from paypal and stuff. The whole thing is a giant clusterfuck and is explained both in the new post I've linked below and in comments there. That $900? That paid off the old bill, but they want cash on delivery for any new oil, so without raising more $$ people are still cold.

So there's about $400 that needs to be raised. If you wanted to help before and then saw the need was met, the bad news is there's still need. The good news is you can still help.

http://fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com/1398981.html


Original request info:

http://fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com/1398308.html

Roommate fuckery has left an LJ'er with no heat and a $900 oil bill. This is life and death stuff this time of year. There's an ill teen involved and a cat and the person in need of help just got out of the hospital for a lung-related illness.