I just finished A Dance with Dragons and while I won't review it - yet; I am already about five books behind, there - I have been inhaling all the new threads on Westeros and saw mention of fanfic. I remember as a tiny baby fandomer shipping Renly/Loras so hard, and feeling extremely sad that GRRM banned fanfic (nearly as sad as on hearing that ( Read more... )

I have been reading a lot of feminist work lately, like Feministe and Tiger Beatdown, and while I've always called myself a feminist I wasn't always a well-informed one. This helps. I also wonder if I can be a feminist whilst believing no one could love me the way I look. I've been trying to objectively study my face without makeup and I don't like ( Read more... )

An update for those of you following along at home:

Our union did manage to get us paid. Yay for unions! It's like we actually live in the twenty-first century or something. This doesn't change the fact that I don't like my job. I don't like my job and I'm not in denial any more, but I have to keep working because I simply can't afford not to - ( Read more... )

I thought Toast would be a sweet, soothing slice of BBCishness, but it was actually quite disturbing - I believe unintentionally so. Nigel Slater was the littlest sociopath ( Read more... )

Um, things ( Read more... )

oddishly tagged me for this during my week of downtime in the Land of No Internet, so here goes:

( The most incomplete book meme EVAR! )

Today, I cleaned my flat. Who knew a two-room property could accumulate so much grime? You may ask, "Rachel, why on earth did you do such an unaccountable and out-of-character thing?!"

The answer is: kittens!

( I think I am nesting. )

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I started flist-skipping and came across this post on Cultural Literacy by blamebrampton. It was far more interesting than reading about the issue of continence in geriatrics, but then most things are, up to and including setting your own head on fire ( Read more... )

My fifth lj-anniversary occurred sometime in August. It is quite typical of my time here that I forgot that until now. I might dig up and polish off an old fic for the occasion, but, you know, probably not. I think my life has been distilled into one long (high-pitched - very high-pitched) litany of FINALMEDFINALMEDFINALMED ( Read more... )