I just... I should be studying. ( The ol' Wikipedia random answer meme, via Spacefall and Elina )

I posted this earlier to tranny_rage, but as it's comm locked I thought I'd share. This is of course directed at no one on the flist, so no worries there. It's just some fun times with AMAZING QUESTIONS like those I mentioned in this week's TBoA.

So, to other friends and former lovers:

It has come to my attention that you would really like to be supportive of my transition. That's great! But some of you seem to have a tragic condition in which every time you open your mouth to say something "helpful," total inanities spill forth. So I've put together a few of those phrases (with some responses) to help you on your journey of healing. Knowing is, as GI Joe always taught me, half the battle.

( And cut for a brief q&a, mainly just to narrow my own friends list read, heh. )

Creepy email of the day award officially goes to the Woodland Park Zoo, which decided I needed to know about the annual Turkey Toss.

Now, giving lions and Komodo dragons raw whole turkeys... sure, I guess, that doesn't seem like it'd look too fucked up. But watching golden tamarins (or, as we call them on the streets, NIGHTMARE MONKEYS) rip apart a carcass of flesh? If I didn't have therapy that day, I would be there.

And for the record, Willawong Station is full of parakeets. Parakeets who, on November 21st, may be eating the flesh of their cousins. Why, zoo, why?

YouTube, why have you started failing me so hardcore? I am Reasonably Certain that I can't skip two seasons of a show and just watch the end!

Let's take bets on how long it takes Red to Decide That Porn Is A Perfectly Good Way To Learn Everything About Canon. Hrrghhh time to smash my computers together until I can understand torrent files?

Otherwise, tomorrow is the last day of clinical. Pretty zany. They even want to know our picks for senior synthesis by the end of January... I guess I might have to be an adult eventually here, which is petrifying.

Although, end of January... Maybe I should just get conveniently distracted by Logic buttons. Anyone got room for a gamer, only slightly used, in their basement? Compact size and minimal smelliness are some of the many benefits of this model, but Understanding Computers is not.

Happy 120th birthday, Washington state.



May you continue to be filled with ill-advised demonstrations of "an abundance of grit and manly vim."

Or just give up, ditch the boat, and stay inside your parents' garage tinkering with computers? Really, your call.

The problem with living in a mail-in ballot state is the eternal wait for poll results. Neurotic refreshing of the Seattle Times results page? Check yes!

Anyway, as of yet it looks like everything that matters is GOING RIGHT (though it is neck-in-neck enough for mayor that I don't feel comfortable there), including for Ref 71. As of now we're at a good 51.65% approval--so although Maine is sort of a tool, I'm feeling optimistic for this corner of the States.

Also, DOW CONSTANTINE has been totally confirmed as our new county exec. As he is a gentleman with a rad name and also a tendency to open his mouth to say intelligent things like, “It was a great day on the County Council when we were finally able to pass civil rights protections for people on the basis of gender identity. As I said then and I’ll say again today, we do not have the power to ban bigotry. That is a matter for the individual human mind and heart. … In banning discrimination and putting into law the fact that we will not tolerate people being treated unfairly, we set the stage for bigotry to slowly abate,” I am very content with this.

In short: go Washington state?

Also, I want to give props to everyone rocking NaNo or NaBloPo or (PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY) i_mop! Y'all have a lot more discipline than I and deserve some serious love. Carry on with the rocking, okay!

So I kind of made my therapist tear up at my letter. Apparently it is way touching, guys! She even asked to take a copy of it. Never say I am not full of gentle feelings.

In other news, it is Halloween and I am planning on partying hardcore with some hot LITERATURE REVIEW for a RESEARCH PAPER. Ugh, my kidney for a lit review for postmodern Japanese novels, instead...

I don't know how thinking about sexuality role ambiguity within the Athenian active/passive dichotomy could ever become boring, but IT DID SOMETIME LAST NIGHT.

Oh man Plato I just don't even friggin' care about Socrates being a beloved and a lover any longer. I am over it. Uuggghhh and two more pages to write about it. Interfemoral coitus: never so dull.

Otherwise uh, just trying to make it through this week? Hopefully everyone else is surviving nicely.

If I'm starting to write articles on medicine for the Simple English wiki, I am clearly into a new sort of danger zone with not doing reading for classes.

You know, one of those zones where you go, "but at least it's related, right?"

...There isn't even an article for multiple sclerosis STOP LOOKING AT ME I NEED PRACTICE AT NOT SAYING BIG WORDS Y/N?

How have I never seen that this shirt exists?

...I do not need it. Really.

I usually don't pay this date much mind. But on thinking about yesterday's therapy, and on gearing for this post, I did notice that today is, coincidentally enough, National Coming Out Day.

( And it gets a little long in here. Thoughts on therapy, mom, my ability to have multiple heart attacks over nothing, and where I'm at right now (and for once I mean 'in life,' not 'in Devil Survivor') )

I'm probably going to have this song in my head all week. Pretty awesome remix.

oh my god internet.

This must be the speed people were shocked and amazed at in 2001! Verily, my crusty eight-year-old laptop is just loading images and not disconnecting every ten minutes and it's all so magic!

Yeah I just got in and was shocked to find the equipment was delivered on the right day, and then started messing around. Still haven't got it to work on my netbook (which may or may not be faster), but I should maybe wait for a wireless adapter. You know, given that disconcerting cracking noise that happens when I try to jam the ethernet cable into the netbook? THE HOLE IS TOO MADE FOR IT.

In other news, was hanging in the park when I overheard the following: "Oh man, and wasn't it crazy when she shoved the vibrator with a feather up her ass?"

I was momentarily confused, but remembered that Hump starts tomorrow...

I can't believe I wrote this a year and a half ago. I guess I'm still not okay with the edit, but, like a standardized test, you always hit a point where you've just gotta turn it in or you're going to keep changing crap from one wrong answer to another.

( Cut for author's notes, long as ever. )

( And direct to the porn. Warnings include sex toys, orgasm denial, D/s, GS4 spoilers, etc bbq )

You know that feeling you get when you're about to fall asleep, and you see an infomercial for the Chia Obama?

...Yeah.

Well, class has been in for all of three days. And as of yet, I'm completely incapable of paying attention, or vaguely caring? Agh, I have two quizzes on Monday! I better study!

...And I say this with the full knowledge I'm going to head home and try to finish off Devil Survivor. I managed to beat Devil Summoner 2 right on Tuesday, so that's not available for distraction, at least.

I guess I'm torn between needing to worry more, and wanting to just preserve this ridiculous summer zen I'm lugging about. Yeah, I might not get a 4.0, but who cares? I still don't have internet at my apartment, I still can't be bothered to pay attention, right?

Quote of the day, from the kid walking in to the bar where I use wi-fi: "Oh, no. Not this place again!"

Nice one, mom!

Anyway, sundry pals have all vacated the greater Seattle area, after a pretty rad weekend. I've never been down to PAX before, but I guess being as I got to tool around with the trial, uh... trial... of what is now apparently known as Miles Edgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations but what will consistently be parked in brain as Perfect Prosecutor, I guess this was as good a time as any? The demo was plenty sweet, as I believe any game in which one gets to hit a "Logic" button is automatically awesome. And even in the short demo provided, Edgeworth found the time to mention his SPARKLEHOUSE BOYFRIEND and also to be called a fanboy by Gumshoe.

And I got a tin advertising the game. That falls apart the minute you open it. Nice, Edgeworth. Other PAX highlights included repurchasing Super Mario 2, spending entirely too much time dancing with someone in a Katamari costume, and meeting up with a lot of swell folks. I think I said this at the end of that comic convention, but I'll say it again... I need to hit up more cons!

Otherwise, I'm still out of Internet at the apartment, and I've just been reading my weight in books and trying to wrap up Devil Summoner 2.

This weekend was also Bumbershoot and the Gender Odyssey conference. I'm glad to prove once again that my personal priorities remain: music < gender stuff < GIANT FANBOY BONERS.

Glad I picked the most bug-infested log on campus on which to sit. Still, wasps in the pants are a small price to pay for free wi-fi.

When seeking the source of all the friggin' fruit flies in your apartment, if you methodically omit the probable--the drains, the garbage, empty beer bottles, kitchen counters--it will only leave one thing.

And that's the huge bag of rotting oranges under a chair in your living room.

Note to self: nice effort.

Note to everyone else: I'll be at PAX (sans decomposing oranges) on Friday, if anyone wants to bump into me. Looking forward to seeing you again, shinkuu!

Let's pretend I didn't wait a year and a half to edit this. Yes?

( Cut for my notes, )

( ...and for actual story. Edgeworth, Wright, porn, etc. )