I understand that it's considered unseemly for adult publications to arrive as is, so they put them into gray plastic bags, lest those of us with weak constitution be plunged into a shock...
I can even understand why the same rule applies to Out, although it gives me a pause.
I can try to understand why they would do the same with Advocate, ( Read more... )

Just spent 3 hours writing a one-page abstract for a conference I'm - probably - going to attend in Moscow in November. The trick is, it needed to be in Russian.

If you think that's not a problem, think again. I don't write in Russian very often - don't really have any reason to. Speak - yes, write - no. Of course, I don't remember the layout of ( Read more... )

Friends only

So yes.
For some reason I have been thinking about LJ lately - mostly about the fact that I haven't written anything in quite a few years. Interestingly, it's destroycreate's entry that got me thinking. Why do I write - or rather not write? Entertain others? Journal my daily routine? Socialize? Naturally we all a bit exhibitionists here - otherwise ( Read more... )