February 2012
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inmymimeseye replied to your post: New roommate arrived yesterday
Manny: What sort of world is it that you can’t go away and leave the front door open without getting robbed? Bernard: It’s this sort of world, Gandalf!
Oh man, does this mean I’ll soon get locked out in inclement weather and end up working in the food service industry? Because I think I’d rather just stay in the rain...
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New roommate arrived yesterday
I just got in from work and found the door unlocked and all the balcony windows/doors open, but no roommate. So… either he just walked downstairs for a bit, in which case I need to let him know that he still needs to lock the door, or he actually went out and left everything open, in which case I might gently kill him.
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For the record, I’m not giving up anything this year because 1. I forgot, and 2. I can’t think of anything good off-hand.
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I actually kinda like Lent
Not in the “FEEL GUILTY YOU SINNER” sense, but then I’ve never carried much in the way of Catholic guilt. I wouldn’t give up something just for the sake of giving it up, but I do like the idea of using it as a set amount of time in which to do something good for yourself.
For example, one year I gave up alcohol to give my body some time off (shockingly easy!) One year I...
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I think anyone can email abuse@tumblr.com. Go do it now.
Seriously, I haven’t seen my dogs in over a month because my parents took them with them to our vacation place. I’m so excited about joining them there for a few days, I almost literally skipped out of the office today.
Probably won’t be around much, if at all, until Wednesday, so if anything interesting happens, drop me an ask please!
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Oh good! Now because of the import restrictions, some kinds of medicine are starting to be in shortage!
What Would Agatha Christie Have Thought of Downton... →
alpha-lima-lima:
Found this via the Agatha Christie Facebook page.
The answer is, no one really knows, but there’s a nice list of recommended Christie books with Downton-like settings.
I endorse this list.
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Feel free to reblog that last post, by the way. My purpose was to inform people. I don’t care who knows how I identify, and I’m impervious to idiots on the internet - I’ll only get upset if someone I respect is being mean, otherwise I laugh evilly in their faces while strumming my fingers together. Like so:
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Big fact you should know about the ace/demi/grace communities: this kind of abuse isn’t exceptional. On the Tumblrs, it becomes a whole big thing pretty regularly, actually - at least once a month - and the rest of the time, it’s because people forget we exist, we have so little presence. And we’re thankful for that.
This is how it works within the community in a situation like...
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“Hi, [redacted]. Thanks for letting me know. I already put in the mentor change...”
– Actual work email I just wrote and almost sent. Apparently late-night Skype commiserating with my best friend and some whiskey is bad for early-morning brain functions.
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As usual, Kelsium knows what’s up.
Eugh. I’m still feeling more shaken up than I care to admit. I mean, I guess it is pretty upsetting to be told “keep eating you fucking bitch if you scream I’ll kill you my partner’s watching us from behind and I’ll kill you even with those cops over there.” And I guess it’s good that I’m able to keep my cool when I’m actually in a bad...
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I hereby declare Tea as Ruler of the Universe
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I’m fine. He was trying to be all casual and sat down beside me when I was having lunch in the park, and asked for things softly one at a time, so I gave him some of my money (didn’t take the wallet out of my purse, so he didn’t see I kept some), then told him that I believed him that he had a partner watching us, then convinced him to leave me my phone, then reassured him that...
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Welp, I was just robbed and threatened with being killed.
Womp womp.
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Yet another demi post.
Now that I’ve had time to think about this more calmly, here are my thoughts on the recent ace/demi debacle.
I understand and accept that, when you choose to belong to a community, you have to take responsibility not only for your own actions and words, but for those of the community as a whole. Such is the case with feminism, with its large history of discrimination towards POC and trans*...
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100% salary increase for members of the Argentine congress.
Right after the president came out to say that there would be a “fine-tuning” of the economy, and that normal-people salaries will have smaller increases than average - increases well below the inflation rate.
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france: ten
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world: france what are you do—
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world: france stop it
france: four twenties ten
world: france that doesn't even make any sense
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I know there’s been people complaining about demisexuals, but I only know this because of the many people on my dash who spoke up for us. Thanks, guys. You’re all the best.
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Why is every surname common in Argentina??
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Find where your last name is most common →
ouiser-boudreaux:
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faustianslip: (via leighway)
New Zealand, followed by Spain and Argentina. I really had no idea.
Prior to getting results—I’m guessing Ireland and England and USA.
I called it…plus the Aussies!
The UK, Wales specifically (where it originated), Australia, followed by the US.
Not terribly...
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Today is apparently Buckle destroys or loses...
“The translator and the polyglot take two very different stands toward the fact...”
– Polyglot Vs. Translator at Publishing Perspectives (via hmhlit)
Ugh. I STRONGLY disagree. We all are polyglots, we all are Marco Polo. The only thing that separates translators and polyglots who don’t translate is that the latter, in fact, don’t translate. You have to like the creative part of...
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Last night I went for exhausted drinks with my best friend. Exhausted because I’d had a very early morning, and because I knew I’d have an early morning today too, but friend had been asking to get together for a bit so I felt bad saying no.
Friend gave me very lovely belated birthday present.
I promptly forgot birthday present at bar, or possibly taxi.
It seems I missed out on some interesting...
My summarized input:
Ketchup was thought up by the devil to ruin anything delicious.
Italy is a very complex country that has been both idealized and negatively reduced way too much. It has beautiful, amazing, creative aspects; which makes it all the more frustrating that it can also be corrupt, inefficient, and, in many ways, antiquated. It’s also only been a unified country for...
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Dear Tumblr Friends, I need your help
pati79:
This is AGUSTINA TURANO, she’s 21 and lives in Buenos Aires. She was last seen in Las Cañitas, City of Buenos Aires on Tuesday Feb 7th 2012.
She was wearing black leggings, blue shirt, flip-flops and was carrying a grey bag.
Information here, please. We are desperate.
I beg you share this information in your blogs, so everybody knows her family is desperately looking for her. Only...
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It’s ridiculous how happy and excited reading stuff about language, etymology, books, etc. makes me. I seek it out and can consume hundreds of pages of dry theory, all the time thinking “THIS IS SO COOL!” And then I talk about it incessantly to people who are foolish enough to smile and maybe even ask a question or two. Because I love it.
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I swear, my boss enjoys dangling the threat of calling for a phone meeting before my horrified eyes.
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Changed icon because I was that person who still has all their Christmas stuff up in February. And because a giant Beetlejuice-esque mouth eating cake seemed right for me.
(By Anne Edmond, of comiques - follow her!)
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“[A]ll parties agree that Proposition 8 had one effect only. It stripped same sex...”
– Judge Reinhardt, finding Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional.
Fist pumps at my desk, you guys. Read the whole opinion here. (via fullcredit)
These words are really lovely. (via carolinek)
Extremely well said. (via whineandbeer)
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Wait - I just heard something about the ruling being open to appeals? Does anyone know anything about this?
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Yay California!
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kelsium:
bricksandmortarandchewinggum:
I mean this is all semantics but say someone was born in 1965 they’d have kids when they were about 20 (‘85) those kids would be 27 now, not exactly new grads. And that’s the first year AFTER the boomer generation. The majority of people still had/have kids younger nation-wide. I’m just saying, I’m hesitant to chalk this up to a boomer trend. The...
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whineandbeer replied to your photo: Umm I just noticed my ring changed colors? It’s…
This made me LOL because YOU KNOW WHY.
I hadn’t even thought of that! OMG my ring is surreptitiously outing me.
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Oooh - I just remembered! Yesterday on the bus home there was a roughly 6-year-old kid who, out of nowhere, very loudly asked, “Dad, is blood tasty?” And then, when his father said “Ummmmmm I don’t think so? Not really,” kid matter-of-factly responded, “It’s very pretty, though. Nice color.”
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“Michigan State University surveyed more than 700 employers seeking to hire...”
– Bring Your Parent To Work Day: So-called helicopter parents have hit the workplace, phoning employers to advocate on behalf of their adult children. Human resource managers say more parents are trying to negotiate salary and benefits and are even sitting in on job interviews. (via nprfreshair)
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Lesbian Themed Booklists →
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For your general perusal, these are all the current, completed niche booklists we have put together. If you know of any books that should be on one of these lists and isn’t, please let us know!
Asexual Lesbians/ Asexual Women in Fiction
Lesbian Christmas Fiction
Lesbian Fairytale Fiction
Lesbian Historical Fiction
Lesbian...
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This may be the hottest I've ever been.
Weather.com says it feels like 32°C, with 84% humidity, but I’m pretty sure they meant 45°C with 100% humidity. None of this is aided by the fact that I’m wearing the world’s least breathing pants, and had to take a very crowded bus to work right after donating blood.
By law my job has to give me 24 hours off when I donate blood. Remind me why I didn’t take them?
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Why don’t I work for America’s Test Kitchen.
Clearly this is a mistake on my part.
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I live.: Let’s face it - English is a crazy... →
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Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We…
THANK YOU for this beautiful etymological explication. This “English is...