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Consent and Mind Control
I’ve started listening to podcasts while I run, since I discovered the delicious number of free fantasy and scifi stories on iTunes. One of the first I stumbled upon was Metamor City, a scifi/ fantasy fusion, and it kept me entertained on the elliptical until episode seven. Then I flew into a teeth-gnashing rage and promptly lost all sympathy for ( Read more... ) -
Insight isn't always fun
I had my first face-to-face conversation with someone who's anti-choice yesterday. That is, I'm sure I've had plenty of conversations with anti-choice people, since we typically don't walk around with labels on our foreheads, but this was the first time I ended up arguing about the right to abortion with someone I know, respected as a peer, and ( Read more... ) -
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Cat Valente is an author who cannot be described by mere adjectives, no matter how fulsome. She makes prose that is the literary equivalent of a multi-course, sumptuous meal, full of an interplay of flavors and narrative threads that need to be savored slowly. So while I haven't had the chance to read her latest book, Habitations of the Blessed, ( Read more... ) -
Fireworks before the Fourth. And below it.
Somebody is setting off fireworks on the street level just a few blocks from my apartment. I thought the sound was thunder at first, until I looked out the window and saw the sparks and trails of light flashing through the narrow streets. It's beautiful, but almost vertiginous. The ground is not the place for fireworks - it's like glancing out ( Read more... ) -
On the subject of Persian cats
My general stance on Persian cats is that they're abominations, but in a bizarrely adorable way. They're so far on the ugly spectrum that they come back around to cute, like those weird, perpetually wheezy little dogs with the goggly goldfish eyes. I look at their squashy flat faces and their permanently concussed expressions and they're so ( Read more... ) -
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My relationship with the cardigan currently on the needles is getting hot and heavy, if only because I just attached the sleeves to the body and so have a giant lump of wool on my lap in the middle of summer. Said cardigan is decisively into the ugly stage, where it’s vaguely misshapen and the stitches are uneven and there are gaping holes in the ( Read more... ) -
This is relevant to my interests!
The brains of shy or introverted individuals might actually process the world differently than their more extroverted counterparts, a new study suggests."Individuals with this highly sensitive trait prefer to take longer to make decisions, are more conscientious, need more time to themselves in order to reflect, and are more easily bored with small ( Read more... ) -
Breaking news: Sleep is good!
Some of my classmates can function on no sleep. They brag about all-nighters, or ruefully admit that they only got nine or so hours for the past three days total. I cannot do that. At all. I need seven to eight hours minimum to function normally. Deprive me of sleep and I end up wandering around in a daze all day feeling like I'm half- ( Read more... ) -
The Oracle gets literal
So as I've mentioned, occasionally I go and plug questions into a couple different Tarot-things on the Interwebs. I don't exactly take the readings I get as serious answers, but it sure can be interesting. Since I am currently obsessing over a Certain Thing at the moment, ( I asked... ) -
Recording for posterity
Today? Today was awesome, for a whole passel of reasons. Today was filled with productivity and mint chocolate and orange chocolate and lace and dragons* and finally making progress on a number of stalled projects.
Now I go to sleep the sleep of the righteous who have crossed items off of their To Do list.
* Well, a dragon. I have made ( Read more... )