I should be finishing up a textbook review, but I cannot summon the energy. So a couple of things - on the TW front, I think lefaym and sqyd 's meta posts on why CoE seems to be eating the fandom say all the things I would have said, barring a little schadenfreude. The short version - while I am very much enjoying the Virtual Season 3, any actual TW ( Read more... )

My older daughter is off on her first date this evening. I feel about 700 years old. It's not even a big date - it's a group of kids going mini-golfing. But a boy asked her - and wants to take her to Iron Man 2 next weekend and they're talking about changing their Facebook status to boyfriend and girlfriend (whatever happened to carving your ( Read more... )

when you're not having so much fun. The last post I made was the week after maggie47's mother passed away. Yes. she's online now and everyone must be nice to her! Funnily enough, other than one True Blood comm we don't have any mutual LJ friends, she's not active in the DW/TW fandom at all. Anyway, we've mostly dealt with the workload from that - her ( Read more... )

It took a tie-breaker question, but I'm the prettiest one in the Fellowship!

Despite what I look like on the outside (grey-haired, plus-size, 47), my personality is Lovely (and IMO probably gay, recovering from that breakup with Aragorn, the emo whiner, by a rebound relationship with that bear Gimli). I needed this laugh.

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notmywife's mother passed away this morning - I'm away from home and probably will be for the weekend at least

Ganked from spiderine and to fill the time until I manage to finish my TW meta (curse you smirnoff_mule for distracting me with your excellent discussion of slash politics!) This post matches the INC sweater I'm wearing today.

MY Dewey Decimal Section:

784 Instruments & instrumental ensembles

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So, the last day of holidays and I'm procrastinating as much as I can. Tomorrow is back to teaching, to catch-up work from students who've been ill and grade appeals from students who think they deserve A's and wrestling with technology so that somehow 700 audio files will magically appear on an interactive web page ( Read more... )

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This is terrible - I managed one post in November, so I'm starting off December early ( Read more... )

I'm trying to come to terms with the referendum votes in Maine and Washington - a narrow rejection of a previous-passed same-sex marriage law in Maine, and a narrow approval of a civil partnership law in Washington. The Washington law only passed because Seattle and its suburbs went strongly pro - and the religious groups still threw enormous ( Read more... )