- but of course for anyone with young daughters, I want to be sure you've seen this post

http://beatonna-tumblr-feed.dreamwidth.org/172661.html

featuring minimalist posters of women who changed science and the world. (About which Kate Beaton says "Lemme go back in time and put these on my wall when I was 10.")

It pleases me that it is both (a) International Women's Day and (b) Tuesday, which is the night every week when the women's league curls at my club. :-) For International Women's Day, I will retell this story ( Read more... )

1. A ten-end curling game goes a lot faster when you're playing it than when you're observing it.
   
2. It's not so hard to play timely (so why is it so hard to play eight ends in two hours on a Tuesday?).
   
3. I really am very annoyed by (particularly older) men who think they know everything, especially when by extension they think (particularly younger) women ( Read more... )

1. I was mistaken - my friend's parents have a relatively complete Robin Hood set, so there's definitely a Maid Marian nutcracker, and she feels sure there's a Guinevere as well. This is the converse (reverse? obverse? inverse?) of what I said yesterday, which doesn't matter one bit, but I did want to set the record straight ( Read more... )

1. Yuletide reveal: I wrote Proverbs 31:29, which is 3900 words in Anne of Green Gables on the prompt "Marilla Cuthbert; F/F". I didn't quite get there, per se, but then, neither did Marilla, so it all works out. This story supposes that what Marilla and John Blythe quarreled about all those years ago (remember?) was her friendship with Rachel ( Read more... )

I confess I had only heard of this thing from my former classmate on the Facebooks. And it was asked of me on LJ what this actually is and who organizes it and so on, and so now I read the following, courtesy of Uncle Wiki:International Men's Day (IMD) is an annual international event celebrated on November 19. Inaugurated in 1999 in Trinidad and ( Read more... )

I learn from a grad school acquaintance on Facebook that today is evidently International Men's Day.

Stay tuned for International White Protestants' Day, International English Speakers' Day, and International Healthy and Able-Bodied Day.

If and when Emma Thompson does remove her name from the "Free Polanski" petition, I'll know I was right not to give up hope on her in the first place.

I walked to my voice lesson today. I've been meaning to do this since I began with this voice teacher, because she's only a few (long, admittedly) blocks away, but it's always been too hot or raining or I've needed the car right after or whatever. So today I walked. I passed by a small crowd of people picketing in front of what I hadn't realized ( Read more... )

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wednesday, 19 october, ~2pm.  outside in the quad.  it is drizzling -- not enough to be called raining, but just enough for people to want to get out of it.  the photographers have just completed the taking of the college photograph.
fox:  [hops up from her chair in the front row, where she got to sit by virtue of being student president, ( Read more... )