I have developed a new metric: If you have to depend on guilt-tripping to pressure me into what should otherwise be a mutually beneficial transaction (join your group, attend your event, buy your product), then your system has bigger problems than my involvement will fix ( Read more... )

I've been wanting for days and days to write some stuff about what's happening on my interior landscape, but have been too busy churning out actual work (made some updates to my website, though, alongside working on the big book project). So, in lieu of content, you get some of the interesting things that have come up in the past several weeks.

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In honor of the last night of Chanukah! Actually, this is not necessarily my top 8, but it is the 8 I will bring to your attention for this year ( Read more... )

Today is a day for getting things done and catching up in various ways, which at the moment includes this LJ post. (I got some of the more pressing things done earlier this week, partly as a result of bailing on getting together with c1 on Thursday evening -- sorry, but it did help!)

( house things )

Someone on my friendslist just posted (locked) a link to a 10-year-old article by Malcolm Gladwell, of Tipping Point fame, about a woman named Lois Weisberg (see also the print-friendly PDF) and the social role of Those People Who Know Everyone. It's a very enjoyable article, and reminded me somewhat of my Coworker M, whose job it apparently is to ( Read more... )

After getting dismissed early from rehearsal tonight, I made a grocery run to Trader Joe's, then took a rare detour over to Whole Foods. As a result -- even though it meant I didn't get home until 10pm -- rather than a slice of crappy takeout pizza, I am dining on fresh asparagus and caprese salad (using the basil I'm growing myself, on my porch). ( Read more... )

I always think these posts will be "last one for a while", but there's just more coming up all the time. :-}

This whole Tiger Woods thing is causing a fair bit of commentary from the non-monogamy faction (much as the whole Bill Clinton thing did 12 years ago). But in particular, I couldn't not repost the one from my fandom object Jay Michaelson, ( Read more... )

I swear, someday soon I will write more actual content, but probably not until such time as I have functioning internets in my house. (Rather, it appears the internets themselves are functioning, but my new wireless card is not. Well, cycon is supposed to come to my rescue for a bit tonight, so we'll see if that helps!) But in the meantime, anyway ( Read more... )

It occurred to me that I really should have started off my previous collection of links with the very basics, since this is a pretty radical (not to say unthinkable) concept to many of my lurking readers, particularly family members. *waves*

( More on polyamory in general )

Though this is the sort of list some bloggers call "closing tabs"... in recent months, I have instead been keeping a little "clips" list of online articles of interest, in the interest of posting them (without overmuch additional comment) whenever I seem to have amassed a collection on a particular theme or topic. (I do this, like all my ongoing ( Read more... )