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The obligatory post-Harry Potter post
I'll admit it: pretty much the only thing I did yesterday was read Harry Potter. All freaking day. And I'm sure all of you are just absolutely dying to hear what I thought. I'm mainly going to go with some feminist points, with possibly a few Christian ideas thrown in for good measure.
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Your regularly scheduled programming...maybe
My secondary job is finishing up, so I'll probably be back to participating in virtual communities again on a regular basis in the very near future. I have 7 billion things I've bookmarked or jotted down on sticky notes that maybe, just maybe, I'll get around to writing about...at some point.
For now, I just read this post on abyss2hope: a rape ( Read more... ) -
Sarah the drinker of meme-flavoured kool-aid
Things you may not have known about me....
FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE:- Coffee monkey in a polyester suit - Tim Horton's, Deep River/Hamilton, Ontario
- Packing for a moving company - Deep River, Ontario
- Community Advisor (Residence Life Staff) - McMaster University (*shudder*)
- Research Assistant - Bertrand Russell Research Centre, ( Read more... )
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Can we even call it a rape trial at this point?
I realized in replying to a comment on my last entry that the story I alluded to briefly--about the judge who ruled that a rape victim couldn't use the words "rape" or "sexual assault" (not to mention "victim", which was already out) in her testimony--was something that probably warranted some further commentary with my linguist hat on. For ( Read more... ) -
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OK, so, since I think my brain is mainly functioning right now, I'm going to try to have some thoughts. Bear with me, I'm still fermenting said brain at about 101 or so, and it hasn't been fed in a few days.
The good(ish) news. From the British blog "The F-word", a story about proposals for legal reform that *actually* sound somewhat practical in ( Read more... ) -
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Sometimes, my "issues" kind of end up amusing me.
I have this general fear of being whiny and exaggerating my physical ailments. Well, emotional ailments, too, really. I used to actually do that--basically try to get people to express their affection for me because I was suffering in some way or other. It was pretty messed up, and damaging to ( Read more... ) -
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So, two jobs right now, right? One is a full-time days position with the City of Hamilton through a temp agency, originally scheduled to go for 8 weeks but that they're now talking about extending. The scariest thing about it, other than the presence of several people with no soul whatsoever, is being told on a semi-regular basis by co-workers that ( Read more... ) -
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This was just on my f-list, and I figure that I, too, have lots of people here who don't actually know me, so...
On-line journals are filters that we each see each other's lives through. Sometimes, the most basic parts of our lives or fannish existences are never mentioned because we think they're understood. So, ask me something you want to know ( Read more... ) -
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This appeared, verbatim, in my church bulletin this morning. Note, of course, that the Erin and Jeff (last name redacted) in question are my wonderful, fabulous best people; Jeff was inordinately amused by this, Erin's reaction yet to be determined:
"Pray for our Youth Leader, Erin B..., as she leaves today for a sex-week study term in Jerusalem. ( Read more... ) -
meme...brains...
K, I always get sucked in to these ones, because I'm essentially a sucker for fishing for the compliments that come out of "why I friended you" and stuff like that. And then there's the chain letter return post obligation, which I end up not resenting so much because I'm kind of also a sucker for paying people compliments. Plus, no brains means no ( Read more... )