In a directive issued May 14, NY Governor David Paterson (by counsel) directed all state agencies to begin recognizing same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.

Wonder if Spitzer would ever have gotten around to this.

I cannot imagine how I came to forget fspider on my lists both of fabulous people whom I'd met before (at Muskrat Jamboree 2007, in this case) and of people whom I very badly wanted to spend more time with. Swear to God, I was looking right the fuck at the CDs of Cape Breton fiddle music with which she so generously gifted me as I was writing last night, ( Read more... )

I don't write con reports ( Read more... )

the fact that this kind of horror and a host of others related to it happen to poor people in my beloved, benighted, battered country every day plays a HUGE part in why I do what I do.

God.

Fangrrls I'm seeing tonight: I'm gonna need a hug and a good stiff drink after this one.

1) Food query: This week's CSA installment included a small pumpkin. (By "small" I mean "about the size of a child's bowling ball".) The pumpkin is very cute, and another person might possibly use it for, say, a centerpiece. I don't decorate with food, however - not since that incident with the exploding blender, anyway - and I would prefer to make ( Read more... )

I have had a truly lousy morning. (But! Still on my fucking feet!) I am now at work. I leave work at, I hope, five or so, go home, load the car, try to resist also loading the Epileptikitty (who is not travelling with me, for the first time maybe ever, and from whom I am already suffering separation pains), and drive to FamilyTown. Tomorrow and ( Read more... )

Grumpy. Tired. Fretful. Overwhelmed. Overworked. Irritable. Foot-stompy. Writer-blocked.

... and omgwhiny.

If you send chocolate, I promise to share. (A little. Probably.)

Have done about two-thirds of the stuff listed on the Scary Post of Weekend Over-Endeavo(u)ring, including almost all of the cooking and almost none of the desk/writing. (Except for backed-up comments, which I've made some headway on. Otherwise, I have been avoiding the whole play-with-words thing like the plague. This bears thinking about - some ( Read more... )

( Cooking/baking: )

For some years now, I've been in the habit of working to movies. By this I do not mean working out - sadly, that's a habit I've not yet acquired. (Willing spirit, meet weak flesh. WHUMP.) By this I mean that I put the movies on, press Play or Enter or Do Me Now, Fool or whatever the machinery I'm using requires, and then ... don't watch them. ( Read more... )