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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
jaylake
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5:46a
[cancer] A brief note on stress
When I'm very stressed out, I show it in specific ways. For example, I can't work a Sudoku puzzle. I make a lot of arithmetic errors. My sleep habits get wonky.
This is to say, I've been diligent about exercising lately, and I wake up on time, without the alarm clock even now, and can still work Sudokus. That's how I know that even in the face of emotional anguish, nonstop talking about it, and comfort eating, still much of the cancer stress is me processing stuff, rather than me cratering in the face of it.
When I stop being able to wake up on time is when the shit will really have hit the fan.
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(comment on this) Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
snottygrrl
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9:21p
Fellatio Is Common Among Fruit Bats. no, really.
first off, i have to ask, anybody know of any modern au rentboy!arthur fic? i ran into one today (it was in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) bbc_merlin_news), but it was a rebirth fic and didn't have what i was hankering for, a downandout!arthur who a doingfineforhimself!merlin falls for and am now really wanting to read one. anyone know of one? or anyone want to write one :D
watched penelope last night. interesting modern faerie-tale type premise. i had some issues with the female character taking the part of the 'beast' role, but understand about how reese saw it as a girl learning to accept herself for who she was. and james mcavoy is always, always worth watching. [*drools a bit*] so, worth renting i'd say if you like faerie-tales.
okay totally had to share this article about how fellatio is common among fruit bats. no, i'm serious. first off, scientists actually studied this. i mean as in they timed how long fruit bats spent on fellatio and how long the spent an subsequent copulation. really. turns out fellatio got the girl bats a considerably longer intercourse session. and researchers concluded that it could be a sign that oral sex is more common in the animal kingdom than was thought. omg. if you go to the actual article in the telegraph there is actually a picture of fruit bat fellatio. AND you can download an mpeg. [*is v. v. amused*]
and, of course, ( so you think you can dance spoilers ) side note, this group is decidedly young.
current mood:  anxious
current music: glee
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jaylake
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7:12p
[travel] The day that wasn't
My flight left Portland this morning in the pre-dawn darkness, and landed in Philadelphia this evening in dusk's last failing light. I spent almost eight hours sitting on airplanes, with a 40 minute break in the middle in DFW. Talk about your lost days... On the other hand, I did Day Jobbery work, got 3,900 words in on "The Specific Gravity of Grief", answered a couple of interviews, and took two naps, as well as reading a good chunk more of The Jade Man's Skin.
I did wear the stupid fricking mask. Boy did that get old after a while. I also pretended to OCD and used hand sanitizer frequently. We'll see if any of this helps stave off respiratory infection. Much like the city's alligator watch, we'll never know unless it fails. My state of mind in this regard is left as an exercise for the reader.
Dinner tonight with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) klingonguy, valverdi and their friend D—, who likely has an LJ handle but I'm not smart enough to figure it out. Quite nice an evening.
The Philadelphia Airport Marriott, on the other hand, is yet another Marriott property without wireless. I don't get it. For what these rooms cost, they shouldn't have any problem doing what every Motel 6 and mom-and-pop coffee house in the country can do. I'm done staying at Marriott properties, given how many other hotel chains seem to manage this minor issue just fine. I can't believe they don't get constant pushback from their business travel customers over this.
Tomorrow is a roadtrip from Philadelphia to the Pennsylvania hinterlands for Day Jobbe meetings. At least I'll see the sun tomorrow. And then off to San Francisco Friday, and my sweet calendula_witch.
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oh_that_jocelyn
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9:57p
Armistice Day
"When there are no more wars, there will be no more veterans, and that is perfectly okay with us."
-Veterans Administration official, quoted in the late nineteen-eighties
Every year I point out that I'm more than happy to honour the contribution of veterans, as well as the soldiers who didn't come home. I just wish we could better keep track of the notion that we were going to stop having wars in the first place.
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unshelved_comic
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11:24p
Gene's life: Last week on the road
http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1535 My first week full-time on Unshelved we spoke in 4 venues (California Library Association, Ingram's booth at AASL in Charlotte, the University of NC, and the University of SC (Go Cocks!)). It was a great but exhausting week, with an extreme low point (my daughter being stung by a stingray at Huntington Beach (she's fine now)) and a fabulous highlight (being given the art below by Sarah Dutton, a fan who came out to see us with her parents in NC).
I missed the SoCo shots at Charlotte's Hooters, but did visit ImaginOn again, saw the ImaginOn sandwich menu at the supermarket next door, and then scored an ARC of the new Joe Sacco book at AASL. (If you're ever in that part of NC, try the lamb tibs at the Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant -- thanks to Michael Rockliff at Workman for discovering it and leading the way!)
Survived 6 flights, if you count connecting flights (I do) and now I'm back in the big wet that is Seattle, fighting moss, a cat on my lap, seeing how much I can type before my wrists give out.
Posted by Gene on 11/10/2009 10:47:00 AM
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unshelved_comic
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11:24p
Unshelved News: Facebook + Twitter update
http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1534 It's been a while since I last mentioned these two. I've been a huge Twitter user forever. Follow me at @billba and be amazed at what I consider funny or interesting enough to tweet. Now that he's unemployed Gene is tweeting a lot more at @ambaum. We all particularly enjoyed the hourly update of his first day working from home. Already his personal grooming habits have taken a hit.
Meanwhile we have almost 3000 fans of the Unshelved Facebook fan page. By becoming a fan there you can get our strips and blog posts in your news feed along with breaking updates from your friend's dog. Lately our fans have also been using that page to comment on strips, which is quite fascinating and potentially a huge time suck for yours truly.
(And yes, my other strip Not Invented Here also has its own Twitter feed and Facebook fan page too)
Posted by Bill on 11/9/2009 1:49:00 PM
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pagefever
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7:48a
We have this new co-worker named Zahra. She does not seem very old, but apparently she is old enough to have given birth to a baby in Iraq in 1991 while they were bombing Baghdad. She says that her friend was driving her around looking for a hospital, but all the hospitals were closed, in fact, the whole city was closed. She says it was a "ghost city." They finally found a hospital, but the hospital had no water or electricity. She was told, "We will deliver your baby, but after that it is in God's hands. There is nothing we can do." They gave her a filthy bed and filthy equipment. They let her stay there for an hour, and then they sent her away with the new baby.
Her accent is wicked awesome. She was a licensed social worker in Iraq, but here they don't recognize her degree so she's stuck being a referral coordinator at the Old Town Clinic.
My Nanowrimo novel is sailing along at warp speed. And today, we don't even have to go to work, so I might even finish the novel a week ahead of time, which would be a new record.
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dr_eldritch
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2:58p
Ask Dr. Eldritch Webcomic 611 - Magical Ed
http://www.askdreldritch.com/comic611.html
Wednesday, November 11, 2009: #611 - Magical Ed
TODAY'S NEWS: I did read the entire HARRY POTTER series, but this inconsistency bothered me. I always felt like they were teaching kids some really dangerous things, yet there weren't a lot of safety protocols. Spells went wrong quite often, yet everyone was surprised when someone got hurt. And don't get me started on Quidditch! I would think that they'd be keeping stats on "Deaths Per Match!" How is magical dodgeball on high-velocity brooms at altitude a GOOD IDEA!?!
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