What I Did During My Plague Vacation ( by Me)

[greygirlbeast]

1. No, I'm not dead. Though, round about night before last, it would have been preferable. I am much, much better this morning, so hopefully I'm quickly recovering. Tiger Balm patches are a marvelous thing. Now, if my body would just shutdown the mucus pumps for a while. But, seriously...people are always asking, why do you never go anywhere or do

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[greygirlbeast]

All kinds of ways of ways to be a bitch.

Fuckin' A.

[stardustgirl]

Yep - what you said.

I'm agog at the people criticizing Neil for his comment. When I read the interview "ooh, he's trivializing rape" never, *ever*, entered my mind. WTF?

When in the midst of gadget wonk / misbehavior / outright cruelty I've often said I'm technology's bitch. Anyone disliking my use of that phrase can bite me.

[mrs_ralph]

Apropos of nothing in particular:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8095000/8095977.stm

Cephalopods can hear us!

[greygirlbeast]

Ah...cool. My supplications have not been in vain.

[ulffriend]

Glad you're feeling better! May you not devolve into a quivering mass of mucus before the healing process is done.

I almost choked when I read about that on Neil's blog. I can't imagine a more unlikely target for the Language Nazis (except for the extreme right's response to "The Graveyard Book", which was really quite lovely in the "asshole goddamn sarah palin" sense). The man has gotten engaged and is losing a pet - either way you look at it he has bigger fish to fry. And I have to agree with awdrey gore: we are indeed all some one's bitches.

As far as the Mormon "family"...ew...just ew.

[greygirlbeast]

I can't imagine a more unlikely target for the Language Nazis

We are all targets, however unlikely, so long as we allow them to get away with this shit.

[ulffriend]

Good point. This is frustrating in many areas: political correctness run amok. I was in a conversation recently in which someone was completely furious because a reproductive health specialist was volunteering his time in low-income areas, and one of his services is vasectomy for those who request them and for whom they are appropriate. The outraged individual claimed that this was clearly an attempt at genocide directed at individuals of low socioeconomic status, which must be minority. There are so many assumptions built into this arguement that I barely knew where to start! But the second you begin to disagree, you are labeled "part of the problem" and summarily dismissed.

[greygirlbeast]

I was in a conversation recently in which someone was completely furious because a reproductive health specialist was volunteering his time in low-income areas, and one of his services is vasectomy for those who request them and for whom they are appropriate.

I've heard that one before. Pro-lifers like to use it to frighten low income and minority women.

There are so many assumptions built into this arguement that I barely knew where to start! But the second you begin to disagree, you are labeled "part of the problem" and summarily dismissed.

Exactly.

[ex_kaz_maho]

I hope you feel better soon. I've been really ill with some sort of virus/bug thing... This is Day 6 and it's the first day I'm feeling a bit more human.

Also... this is a bit weird, but I'll tell you anyway. ;) I had the most vivid dream about you and Spooky last night! I don't even know either of you, beyond reading this blog and SD and your books, but it was so strange. And so... full on and REAL. I was at your wedding, of all things, and you both looked really cool.

Hmm... Maybe it's all the cough medication?

[greygirlbeast]

I was at your wedding, of all things, and you both looked really cool.

I am flattered...but it might be the cough medicine.

[ex_kaz_maho]

Yeah, it does make me hallucinate if I OD on it. :)

But it was a good dream. Interesting decor in the hotel...

[martianmooncrab]

I am Spooky's bitch. And the platypus'. But that's all. The bitch line ends there.

but its consensual, and Spooky knows she will never find another You.

[greygirlbeast]

but its consensual,

No so sure the platypus and I have a consensual relationship.

and Spooky knows she will never find another You.

But that's a double-edged sword, as Spooky also prays she'll never find another me.

[martianmooncrab]

you allow the Platypus to be in your world... its not nailed to the barn outside.

...hmmm a DoppelBeast for Spooky, we could start a fund...

[greygirlbeast]

you allow the Platypus to be in your world...

I'm pretty sure that's not the case, but whatever.

...hmmm a DoppelBeast for Spooky, we could start a fund...

Okay, now I'm entertaining quasi-auto-erotic fantasies...not that that's anything new.