sundries

[rm]

Patty and I had a lovely outside dinner last night, but then stayed up too late because work caught up with me. Boo.

Today my face hurts in a massive, horrible sinus way.

I posted my Dragon*Con schedule last night!

We're expecting a lovely fucking hurricane over the weekend that should make Dragon*Con related travel slightly annoying.

Comments

[ladyofthelog]

I was taught to use "sir" and "ma'am" as a kid. These days, I use them most often in conjunction with "excuse me," namely when people whose name I don't know leave something behind and I have to be like, "Hey person who looks male/female! Come back! Pick up your stuff!" (Because somehow gendering it narrows down who I might be yelling at by 50%? IDK.)

I also used "sir" and "ma'am" while I worked at the library with faculty/old people who looked like they might die and give the university money imminently. They seemed to appreciate it.

When I was eight, I had to explain to my dad that "ma'am" was not spelled "mam." That was awkward.

[rm]

I am never offended when someone military calls me "ma'am." That seems normal. Anyone else though and it's pretty bizarre up here.

[azn_jack_fiend]

I loved a lot of your fics during the contest, but my absolute favorite out of anyone's entries is still "From The Underground Kingdoms". I've never read anything like it, and it perfectly encapsulates my Torchwood objects of obsession.

Where I live ma'am is basically obligatory! But I enjoy the common variant, "miss lady", a lot more.

I don't like Plato's approach to human nature or to art. It's just weird and anti-human. Aristotle, on the other hand, had some amazing insights about art that are so simple but profound that people keep discovering them over and over again... even really not-obvious stuff, like an answer to the question of why audiences like torture porn movies.

Faux Irish pub

[count_to_seven]

I believe you are thinking of Gibney's.

Re: Faux Irish pub

[rm]

YOU ARE AWESOME.

Red facade?

Re: Faux Irish pub

[count_to_seven]

Yep! Apparently my parents are driving over from Athens to get lunch with us and I had to do some fast Googling to give them a location to meet.

Still annoyed I'll be missing all the fun.

Re: Faux Irish pub

[rm]

When are you actually arriving?

[neifile7]

Congrats on WIAD!! What a final round -- but that's exactly what one hopes for. Agree that people wrote AMAZING stories for this, and what a treat watching it unspool week after week. It always seems to stretch everyone in good ways, and I love it that writers I know well still surprise me.

Time for annual wi(ad)thdraw(er)al -- thank goodness for D*C!

[redstapler]

One of my favorite aspects of the BSG reboot was that everyone, regardless of gender, was given the honorific of "Sir."

Roslin was often referred to as "Madam President," but she was just as often told, "Yes, sir."

[rm]

Word.

[fmanalyst]

That actually bugged me. It feels like an erasure to address a powerful woman as sir. One becomes no longer a woman but an honorary man.

But then I've also spent much of my life in the south, where "ma'am" is much less associated with age than it is in the north.

[rm]

I actually don't find "ma'am" offensive or about age, but I find it weird. I mean, I almost never hear it in a neutral context (as opposed to the dripping, nasty sarcasm I sometimes hear when its used I'm wearing men's clothes), and I'd rather be called "ma'am" than when a server comes to the table and is all "what can I get for you girls?" I AM 37. I AM NOT A GIRL.