The ever-analytical eclective has written a piece on the function of perceptions and taboos that I think everyone should read. She points out why we should figure out the reasons for our discomfort with certain things. It's refreshing to see someone online discuss the idea of taboos (gah, I typoed that as "tabooks") without framing their entire argument by ( Read more... )

So there's this game that Merc told me about. It's really pretty easy to play-- you don't have to do *anything*, and as soon as you learn the rules, you are automatically playing. (Too late for you!) But once you forget that you are playing, if you remember again that you're playing, you lose ( Read more... )

( Memories of the number 2 )

I am out here in the cold living room on an uncomfortable chair checking LJ obsessively, hoping that someone will update or will have left an interesting comment on one of the other recent entries I've been following, instead of sitting in the warm bedroom where Anne is watching a movie that I wanted to see. Why? Because I'm hypothetically working ( Read more... )

You probably all know (if you know me at all) that I voted for Kerry and that I am unhappy about Bush's having won the election. That said, if YOU voted for Bush, if you LIKE Bush and you totally support him, that doesn't lower my opinion of you at all and it does not affect my friendship with you. I would never ditch a friend based on political ( Read more... )

"The heart has its secret currents
Deep and without guide.
To find out where they will lead,
I take the plunge
Eyes wide..."

Nanowrimo starts tomorrow! ^______^

It's like a major holiday. (Well, it is Halloween, but for me Halloween-as-a-grownup has come to mean Nanowrimo more than anything.) Anne and I are making weird carob cookies that I can ( Read more... )

Anne's mom had a free month-long pass to Netflix, so we reserved the whole Utena series and we're watching it from the beginning on. This is awesome, because I've never seen the whole series in order, and there are apparently handfuls of scattered episodes that I haven't seen that I didn't know about. Also, in the Black Rose arc (which is about ( Read more... )

Today, on Livejournal, Punni asked why "all of her friends hate Bush." Also, magi linked to this article, which is rather scary (and you should all read it.) The two things have me thinking a lot about people, politics, and verbal shortcuts ( Read more... )

I woke up and I could see the color-turning leaves on the trees out my window swaying in the wind. I love the fall-- not in the "oh it's so pretty" sense, but in the sense that it takes me back to times from the distant past, and every year builds another layer of fallness and fall-meaning on top of the past, so that it comes out thoroughly multi- ( Read more... )

( The standpoint affects everything. )