So since my sister
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A couple of fun links this morning:

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So, I'm at
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Having now 'fessed up about my Warblers hate, I can move on to more interesting things:

A while ago
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I am at this point right now in French where I resent everything -- I resent UBC for making me take a stupid 2-year language requirement to graduate, I resent my stupid class being at 7 pm on a Tuesday out on the other side of god's country, I resent having to drag myself back and forth between there and home and work with gas and parking being so ( Read more... )

I thought I'd drop this link from the NFB for anybody interested:

. The National Film Board Celebrates Black History Month

I haven't watched all of these, but "Speakers For the Dead" and "Remember Africville" are both heartwrenching and important.


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Happy Hanukkah! Links go here!

Three foodway-related posts:
. doodh se dhuli by
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This whole thing with Yuletide is really bumming me out. Which is incidentally a marker of my own privilege (b/c I wasn't personally affected by it being tied to Christmas in the first place), but at any rate, son I am disappoint. Should anybody who knows how/has the inclination to start up an alternate to Yuletide -- which is the hint I'm ( Read more... )

Back from Wincon, which, y'know -- if you want to avoid Wiscon-type shenanigans, is definitely the place to be. Chill and as low-key or frenetic as you like, and multifandom for all of us who aren't so much in love with Supernatural anymore.

Speaking of which: there's apparently this Multifandom (Gen) Horror Comment Meme? It welcomes art and ( Read more... )

HI THERE PEOPLES HI

I spent a fabulous whirlwind weekend in the T-Dot attending my cousin Derek's wedding, which was also an informal and wholly lovable reunion for the Sammy side of the fam (as opposed to the unholy and demoralizing Ragnarök that was the Ramkhelawan reunion in Texas). Also my brother took us to Drupati's and in addition to ( Read more... )