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Who says all federal court judges are bad? I was very happy to see this article about a transgendered woman winning an employment discrimination lawsuit against the Library of Congress. Discrimination based on sex, allright!

I had a terrible nightmare! For those of you who know me, this probably comes as no surprise. What's weird is the form it took:

I dreamed that I was an undecided voter!

That's all.

P.S. My job is awesome. Who could imagine that you could comfort yourself about getting up early by telling yourself, "well, but then I get to go to work"?

"Look. All I'm saying is that a vote for John McCain is a vote for Skynet. If John McCain wins the presidency, Terminators will be beating down our doors the next day."

-my darling husband

We've just arrived in Ireland! I don't really intend to keep a journal, because it's too hard, but I'm very excited. So far, it's pretty great. I may give more specifics after I sleep.

"Sing about the dawn in the middle of the night
Leave an open door behind you
Stumble through the dark, so that we might see the light
Leave an open door behind you..."

-Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

"No wasted time, we're alive today
Churning up the past, there's no easier way
Time's been between us, a means to an end
God it's good to be walking together, my friend

We're living our dreams -
My mind stopped aching -
That's how it happens living life by the drop..."

-Stevie Ray Vaughan, Life by the Drop

I feel that it's important to note (or at least, it's an enjoyable distraction to note) that people apparently have very strong feelings about crosswalks. Having grown up in a community where pedestrians were so rare that I didn't even know you could push the button to make the thingy change, then having moved to Ann Arbor, where there were so many ( Read more... )

Not that I don't love them - for those of you who've read my story and those who will read it in the future, you know I have no compunctions about their use in fiction - but are we seriously talking about using zepplins?

Cause, if so...um...that's cool.

"It seems to me that death was never really the biggest obstacle."

- me, talking about my story