Stuff, and a signal boost

[danceswithwords]

In case you haven't seen it before, there are some excellent reasons to be suspicious of the new "academic" fanfic survey that's going around, starting with the fact that it doesn't meet any of the ethical or methodological standards I'm familiar with for social research and ending with the fact that it's designed to support a book called Rule 34:

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[asta77]

So in the midst of my email response to you Gmail decides to suffer catastrophic failure. Do they want people to resort to phones???

[danceswithwords]

Or, even worse, LIVEJOURNAL COMMENTS?

[sdwolfpup]

omg Have fun! If you talk to Claudia Black, tell her her book suggestion 2 years ago helped me have an awesome natural birth! heee.

And take lots of pictures for us.

[danceswithwords]

Oh, that's neat! What was it called again? I'm not getting an autograph this year, but you never know.

[sdwolfpup]

It was Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin.

I'm not getting an autograph this year

I remember us all saying that last time, and then there was talk of house renovations. Hee.

[molly_may]

it should be awesome as long as it doesn't rain on us

Which it might! It's been a little damp down here this week. On the plus side, the temperature should be in the low eighties during the day, which seems a little more comfortable than what it was the last few years.

And hey, Dragon*Con! Yay! I look forward to standing in many lines with you!

[danceswithwords]

asta77, who actually does crazy things like check weather forecasts rather than blithely assuming that it just doesn't rain between May and October, warned me about the weather, and I have packed an umbrella, so I'm all prepared and stuff.

Yay! Standing in lines with friends! It brings us closer together, it does.