After the first few Elsie books, they kind of went from being totally bizarre to being just normal Christian girls books of the period -- in other words, fairly boring. Every once in a while, though, something like this happens ( Read more... )

Still reading Elsie Dinsmore. The racial aspects of these books are ... interesting, to say the least ( Read more... )

So. Last year, one of my New Years resolutions was to try to get better at picking my battles -- to try not to get into stupid arguments just for the sake of argument. In particular, to avoid "Someone is wrong on the internet!" syndrome ( Read more... )

Well, not a good day EDS-wise, anyway. My wrist is hurting enough that I had to ace bandage it -- I couldn't find my brace. My elbow was popping this morning, which is new and disconcerting. My hips are achy. My shoulder's pretty much feeling like it always feels. Just, generally ow, and tired, and don't wanna do anything.

OK. I know I've ranted about PETA before. Every time, it's the same thing -- they do some outrageous protest, get attention, and respond to all objections with, "We're getting attention! This strategy works!" No, it doesn't work. They're getting attention to the protest, but completely deflecting attention from the cause. PETA's latest thing ( Read more... )

I'm not quite sure what the purpose of this list is. Just, it's been happening, it's been worrying me, and I kind of wanted to put it all together.

January 31: Bike shop in Iceland puts up a "Jews not welcome" sign. link

January 26: Dominican friar writes article referring to "Madoff the Pharisee." linkJanuary 30: Pro-government newspaper in ( Read more... )

Shoulder: I finally got to a rhematologist, who examined my shoulder and said it looked like I sprained the rotator cuff when it subluxed. I've got to get a new round of x-rays to make sure nothing's going too wrong in there, and I'm going to go to physical therapy for it. She said that, if it keeps hurting and the inflammation doesn't go down, ( Read more... )

Note to the world: if you start a post with "Good news for Character1/Character2 shippers! Spoilers under the cut!" and Character1 is currently in a relationship with Character3, then you are doing a really bad job at hiding the spoiler.

Stupid shoulder. Stupid Motrin.

In the past few weeks, my shoulder has slowly gone from kinda achy to feeling like it's been beaten with a meat tenderizer. I'm trying to find some new way to carry my books and stuff. Wearing a backpack really hurts my shoulder, but any sort of messenger bag or anything that I've ever tried that I can wear only over the other shoulder ends up ( Read more... )