I appear to have lost a bag of yarn, a portable hard drive (with all of my downloaded TV! and VIDS!), and some free table books from when I went to Tribal Forces. I don't think the fact that I didn't actually try to put my hands on these things for six weeks doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to find them after six weeks.

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Finding some of the snags of life in a small church.

• We're staffing a booth at Pride and we don't have any tchotchkes. How is our church entirely devoid of tchotchkes? There are no bookmarks, magnets, stickers, keychains, business cards, or color brochures. I know that the church is sort of ambivalent about getting bigger, but, you guys, come on.
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I have been really deeply wanting to try a lobster roll from the @lobstertruckdc, but they've never landed near my office. Today, they were within six to ten blocks (er, DC, man, the geography's a bit weird), so I decided to walk over to get one ( Read more... )

Exhibit #75478904702374097340573458903534897 in "Evidence that race can make white people lose their minds, because they try too hard." Linda Holmes asks, [W]ho am I to wave my finger at M. Night Shyamalan about casting actors of color? Per her NPR staff bio: Linda Holmes writes and edits NPR's entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See. (i.e.
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So, bitch has added a zine to its library called White Blackbirds, about woman who choose to be unmarried This sounds cool and fascinating (save for the queer Catholic woman who is waiting until she can get married in a Catholic church; I suspect that cool is not the adjective she would use for her story ( Read more... )

1) My latest update of Google Chrome ... means Gmail doesn't display.
2) I have not had breakfast.
3) I have to clean out the refrigerator.
4) My ethernet cord broke.
5) My wireless modem is currently hating on the laptop.

Things that are not frustrating me.

Like an Old Familiar Song, June&Elizabeth. I made this.

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So, geekfeminism pointed to a blogpost by the NPR ombudsman on the disproportionate absence of women as on-air sources in NPR news programs (Only one of twelve high frequency paid commentators is female, only twenty-six percent of on-air sources were female, in a "constructed week" survey of on-air voices. The study looked at number of speakers, ( Read more... )

I've been pretty unhappy with this season of Chuck fnrome the beginning, but last night, I got pushed over the edge, and I'm done. ( Unsurprisingly, the use of female characters is the problem I'm having. )

What is the deal with challenges and archives for fannish content welcoming original fic? If I wanted to read original fiction, I would go do so! People even post some free on the Internet, just for the reading! Professionally edited stuff, even, if you grab something from an old Baen CDI like fanfiction because it is fanfiction. Because, even if ( Read more... )

The printer, she doesn't want to listen when my mom's computer speaks to her. This is very unfortunate, as I was going to print out my resume to give the place where I'm working as they are hiring to fill the position I am in right this moment, and doing a very good job in, if all of my co-workers who have encouraged me to fill the position are to ( Read more... )