I've been searching for a song for 17 years.  I found it today.

I'm posting this to LJ instead of G+ because the tale is long, boring, and anticlimactic.  But it's such a huge thing for me to have finally found this song that I feel the need to at least jot it down in some detail.

( Cut for epic length... )

Finishing aMoL on Thursday night didn't make me as emotional as I thought it would.  I've gotten to the end of series - or even single books - that meant far less to me and felt hollow afterwards at the idea that I would never hear anything knew from those characters again.  I was sure, when I settled down to read those last 50 pages, that I would ( Read more... )

There was a scene in the final episode of this season[1] of Breaking Bad where someone calls Walter White a monster.  The way it's said suggests a metaphor - describing a bad person as if they're a monster out of fairy tales.  But the actual impact on the viewer (well, me, at least) was something far more awful.  By this point in the show's run, ( Read more... )

So, my feminism inquiries continue.  It's eye opening in a "Oh shit, I do do that.  And I'm totally guilty of that!" way.  There's kind of a lifetime of really awful habits that have to be re-examined.

It also led me to some really great criticism of R Scott Bakker.  I said he was a likely misogynist back when I first started reading his books, but ( Read more... )

So, I've been reading this feminism FAQ, clicking links like it's TvTropes, pretty fascinated.  But reading this shit makes me want to talk about it.  I'm posting to LJ because a) I imagine some ignorant dude trying to learn about feminism is probably one of the least interesting (and possibly common enough to be quite tiresome) things on the ( Read more... )

1. I think LJ will become a place where I post more "personal" things.  G+ has already caused me to have poster's regret a couple of times - something that I haven't really experienced since rasfwr-j.

It's kind of strange, because the mess of names I'd come to recognise on rasfwr-j hadn't really penetrated my brain sufficiently to make me ( Read more... )

So, I'm going to write a little more about stabbing myself in the hand.  I'm doing it here instead of over on G+ because this is a little more lengthy and philosophical and self-indulgent ( Read more... )

1. I was all remorseful and ready to post an update talking about how I shouldn't have gotten all cranky about the flight booking thing.

Except, the number of hoops I had to jump through to actually finally get my flights changed makes me feel somewhat justified - even though its all sorted now and I'm back to being calm and happy and looking ( Read more... )

Trying to change my flights is far more stressful than it should be ( Read more... )

Reasons why I currently hate Paul:

1. He's getting married.

Many years ago, in my early twenties, I declared that I was never getting married.  At the time, all my male friends agreed that they, too, were never getting married.  All my female friends probably rolled their eyes.  A part of this agreement, though, was that if any of my friend did ( Read more... )