• Wednesday was a good day.
• This Week in Things That Could Only Have Been Brought to you by the Internet (thank you, Bill Kurtis, for the internet): a Very Personal Meeting between Old Spice Man, Feminist Hulk...and Judith Butler.
• Ultraviolet light saves the day yet again.
• I always feel more civilized around the house after vacuuming (the downstairs, at ( Read more... )

• The best political news of the past couple weeks is obviously the striking down of Prop 8; hopefully the decision is upheld. The whole situation with Prop Hate should serve as a warning against putting the rights of minorities to a majority vote.
• Lost fans, catch the leaked epilogue from the season six DVD before it's taken down. After all this time ( Read more... )

• It's hardly every day that you see a Holocaust survivor and his family dancing to "I Will Survive" at various memorial sites in Europe, though it does sound vaguely like something Mel Brooks might've arranged if he'd ever made History of the World Part II.
• The march of history continues, even though it proceeds achingly slowly, takes routes that ( Read more... )

• For once, someone actually applied the establishment clause of the US constitution. (More)
• There haven't been very many Adventures in Cooking lately, but I did make some mahtzah ball soup a couple weeks ago that came out fantastic. The balls were cooked all the way through, the soup was salty but not too salty, etc. This week I want to go out and ( Read more... )

• I've already posted about the big personal items in the past few days: I got a lot done around the house on Saturday (and more Sunday--I have a table in the dining room now, and I'm about ready to sweep through the kitchen & pantry before starting the upstairs); I also finished a CD for the first time in almost two years (I'm currently isolating ( Read more... )

• The one super-obvious thing is, of course, the US House's set of votes on health insurance reform last night. Even though the bills they passed (one of which, By the Beard of Zeus, still has to go back through the Senate, though there're still some good things that're happening regardless) aren't as progressive as they should've been, including a ( Read more... )

• Demeter and Shiva heeded my desperation, and lo, the skies were clear all weekend. Despite this, because of Great Ordeals moving Scott's bed and the Very Big Table from my dining room (a full sheet of plywood screwed on top of an old picnic table--not an attractive thing to be carrying up a flight of stairs), we only got those two pieces of ( Read more... )

• Obviously the big news for me this week is the news that Scott found an apartment a hell of a lot sooner than I expected--he can basically move in whenever I can take the time to move him. I'm hoping that I can organize enough things over the course of this week that we can do almost all of the actual moving next weekend.
• Every little bit helps some ( Read more... )

I feel strange doing these posts when there're plenty of reasons why I'm Significantly Unhappy, but of course that's not the point. So, continuing on:

• The process of reversing Don't Ask Don't Tell is beginning. It's not exactly swift and bold--how long did the DOD sit around and review the possible effects of desegregation during the Truman ( Read more... )

• Obviously the biggest news of my week was that I'm going out on a date soon. After so many un-replied-to messages through these dating sites that I was seriously questioning just how grotesque I may actually be (note: half-sarcastic, that was), to have someone be not only responsive but interested is, let's say, highly welcome. Nonetheless, I'm ( Read more... )