People the Rahball licks :9

Happy 4th o'July ya'll! I got my burger fresh off the grill, I got my coke, I got my neighbor right outside my window blaring 80's music and screaming at her kids not to throw the firecrackers in the kiddie pool.

Go Amurika! Don't blow off yer fingers!

 Posted a commission auction on Furbid here.

There's a few of you who have already spoken to me about commissions.  You're already on the (to-do) list and don't need to worry about the auction. And here's a LOLCat for your amusement.
more cat pictures

HURRAH! JESSE HELMS IS FINALLY DEAD!
Join in the relief that the wicked old bastard has finally gone to the torment decreed by his own warped beliefs by playing "Ding! Dong!" by Klaus Nomi - his version of "Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead." As Klaus Nomi was not only a flamboyant gay man, but one of the first to succumb to AIDS, one can only see using his music to usher Helms into his fiery pit as entirely appropriate....

does anyone know the lyrics to the song at the end of Gridlock?

slowly locking last post (only filtered friends, and pure list can see it, if ya want on that list, leave comment someplace)
even with the hamburgers cubbi gamve me, my emergy is like low beyond low
to move from 1 room to the other is a burden and i'm not even clothed
i'm weak weak :((
i will drag myself to brooklyn though sunday... gah other sunday schedule... and city bound...
bah

help walk me up from me just wanting to sleep, i'm too tired to even eat...

I know it's bad for my wallet to eat out as often as I have been the last week, BUT...

...is it bad for me if it's vegan or actually healthy?

Once all my meat is gone I'm not buying any more; going to try going vegetarian again for the last month I'm here, so from approximately three weeks from yesterday.

Whoa. That actually sounds pretty close. Between trying to get visas and flights, hotels and insurance sorted for The Trip, trying to find a new job in Korea, organising my vacation, copious quantities of OT, cardio on Tuesdays, Yoga on Wednesdays, Pilates on Thursdays, Seoul Writers' Group every second Sunday, journalling projects, ATCs, my reading goals and crafting for charity... my weeks are packed.

My weekends kind of mirror that. Saturday morning, meeting with Linda (after going to the post office), picking up passport, paying for an airline ticket, meeting up with Rich and April, drinks night at Kathryn's that night. Sunday probably studying, making cards, working on my reading goals and finishing the green-and-blue snuggle. Maybe starting the pink and purple one, too.

Maybe I should go to the Seoul Stitch and Bitch this Sunday instead?

...I'm nuts.

I am driving from Toronto to the femme conference in Chicago this August if anyone needs a ride and wants to share gas money. We are leaving on the Thursday and returning later on the Sunday.

www.femmecollective.com

email me femmemomma at hotmail dot com

You know, I really like being a mentor. I've coached newbie vampires through figuring out what to do with a donor, I've talked axious furries through "coming out" to their parents, I've even advised one really nervous transwoman on sex, which was kind of amusing, since she assumed I was a genetic male, and I never did get around to telling her otherwise. I knew what she needed to know, in any case. I like being able to give someone advice that they want to have. I wish I could do it more often, really. But opportunities are often far between. Most people don't need or want advice, they just want reassurance and comfort. I'm not as good at offering that, really. Too honest. :) But it would be nice to be able to mentor more often.

Oh, and while I'm wishing things, I wish a certain somebody was bi. It'd make my life so much less depressing.

Ah well.

So I know that the Master has stolen bodies after he's used up his regenerations.  How exactly does he go about this body snatching?  Is it always the same, or is it different every time?  And if it is different, what he has done in the past?  Thanks.

I'm currently editing a book that is to be published by my university soon, and something has been troubling me. My professor seems to think that when quotations are used, the period should be kept within the quotation marks:

Labov (1972) has referred to this phenomenon as "the observer's paradox."

instead of

Labov (1972) has referred to this phenomenon as "the observer's paradox".

Is this right? I'm extremely frustrated because I've always learnt that the period should be after the quotation mark, but my professor claims that it is the convention to put it within quotation marks.

Angst woe, woe angst, woe some more.

*sighs*