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[Nov. 9th, 2009|01:55] |
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| More Menus! |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|00:27] |
We didn't cut up the pumpkin last weekend. In fact, we didn't do much of anything except get caught up on sleep, and it was MARvelous.
So, what are we going to do this week? Here's the plan:
Sunday: Pancakes, eggs, bacon, hash browns, banana bread. Yummy.
Monday: Make-your-own sandwiches for Magic Night
Tuesday: Rivendell? Or book signing? Make a big salad, either way. (Thaw meat for tomorrow's meal.)
Wednesday: Pozole in the crockpot.
Thursday: Fish tacos with shredded cabbage.
Friday: Chicken casserole.
Saturday: Spaghetti with meat sauce.
This entry was originally posted at http://beckyzoole.dreamwidth.org/31574.html. Please comment there using OpenID. |
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| 2009's test is less than a month away |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|01:28] |
It's almost time.
;) how's it going everyone?
I don't feel ready... |
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| Tatsu's upcoming birthday |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|22:17] |
Hi everyone! Suzuki Tatsuhisa's birthday is coming up in a couple days (November 11 in Japan) and we're collecting birthday messages over at the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) heated_heart community. On his birthday, the entry link will be mailed to Tatsu so he can read everyone's messages. Translation services will be available for short messages.
Please head on over to this entry to leave a message! Comments are temporarily open to non-members so don't worry if you are not part of the community. |
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[Nov. 9th, 2009|01:14] |
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I'm not seeing how the Stupak amendment, evil as it is, makes any practical difference. |
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| Prompt-fic, Last post of the night |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|22:40] |
| [ | location |
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Ta-da! I truly don't know why I feel compelled to use every last prompt word people give me; it only seems to encourage you sadists to say things like "quince." There were two that didn't make the cut, but I think I should be forgiven because I used Mara's facetious and serious prompts both.
We had:
Kelgar01: brr, yummy
Aishabintjamil: sauna, ice, generator
Addison Albright: goggles, wipe-out, stuck
Pink1dragon: nude, muscles, snow boots
Chris Quinton: icicle, broken, frostbite
Molly Church: cinnamon, fire, starlight
Marasmine: slalom, flag, ouch, idiot, blue balls
Coyboygal: hot chocolate, snuggle, cold
TC Blue: platypus, cup, slushee
Eden Winters: quince, lemon
Ali Wilde: penguin, champagne, cheese
A caveat: Kurt doesn't always think sufficiently far ahead, and this story was somewhat influenced by the book I finished this morning: Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman.
( The story: )
I hadn't planned to use the pic as a prompt for me, more as eye-candy for you, but hey, it was fun!
Thanks to all who stopped by today; I will post the winner of the copy of Snow in the morning, just to let insomniacs and residents of the far time zones have a chance to comment.
Rhyssd, you have not been forgotten: your copy of Snow will come just as soon as I see the file. |
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| Widening a neckline |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|00:57] |
I have a sheer knit top with a scoop neckline that I'd like to turn into an off the shoulder top. It has a skinny rib neckband like a regular tshirt, which already stretches to fit around my shoulders, but fits tight and does not stretch anymore.
Normally, I would just cut off the neckband and leave it raw, but it's a semi-nice top and I don't want it to roll. I'm thinking that my only fix is to cut off the neckband and finish it with foldover elastic.
Any other ideas? The quicker and easier, the better, as I'll be handsewing everything and I want to wear the top in a few days! |
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| FUCK YEAH DEBASER |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|21:28] |
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| Benefits of scheduling a consult a month or two before surgery |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|23:35] |
Hey all,
I'm in the midst of scheduling a consult/top surgery with Dr. Fischer. Since I live in Vermont my parents and I were thinking of scheduling the consult for the day before my surgery. My question is for those of you that opted to do the same did you feel this negatively impacted your experience/wish you had scheduled your consult more than a day before your surgery?
Another piece of the puzzle for me is that when I want to have my surgery I'll still be 17. I know Fischer has operated on people younger than 18 before, but it seems to me (from my experiences with testosterone) that the younger you are the more hoops you have to jump through. Is Fischer the same way in that I should probably meet with her way before the surgery? I know I'm being a little paranoid about this. I just don't want to go all the way down there to find out she wants me to go to an additional therapist, get another letter, etc.
I've tried sending an e-mail to the office to ask just this, but all I got back was a standard reply. |
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|20:36] |
In an earlier post, I had written that putting HCR before fixing some of the things that prevent LGBT Americans from getting equal access to health care was "health care for straight people." A great step has been taken at addressing this concern.
A provision in the House bill passed yesterday affords both employers and employees the same tax treatment for health care for domestic partners that it already provides for health care for federally-recognized married partners. Details here. Should health care reform be signed into law with this provision intact, it would remove an average $1100 / year tax on committed same-sex couples receiving partner health benefits, as well as removing employer payroll taxes on those same benefits.
As a tax cut that helps employers, this provision is expected to enjoy widespread Republican support. (In your dreams.)
Kudos to Jim McDermott, D-WA, who introduced the provision. |
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| Meta-vignette 8 -- Jacob Zeilin |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|22:53] |
Last year's vignette 8: Old Style Voter Suppression.
It's a great story. Go read it again. When you get back I'll tell you some more about Jacob Zeilin.
When Captain Jacob Zeilin led his Marines out the gate of the Marine Barracks at 8th & I, he'd already accumulated quite a storied career. The assignment in D.C. was a reward for his time spent in Japan, where he'd been the second American to set foot on Japanese soil following Commodore Perry. Before that he'd been the Military Commandant of San Diego during the Mexican War, and he's participated in the Battle of La Mesa that led to the capture of Los Angeles. He was breveted to the rank of Major while he was Commandant of San Diego, but after the war ended he was returned to his permanent rank of Captain.
Jacob Zeilin had the interesting distinction of being one of the few Marine officers who went to West Point rather than Annapolis. His early career was fairly typical for a Marine officer in the early 19th century; lots of duty afloat commanding various ship's detachments, interspersed with duty ashore. The Mexican War gave him a chance to distinguish himself as a combat commander, and he took full advantage of the opportunity.
Following his adventure with voter suppression in the 1857 election, Zeilin remained at Marine Barracks, Washington D.C. When the Civil War broke out he was promoted back to Major and placed in command of the Marines who participated in the First Battle of Manassas. Although many of his green troops fled the field, Zeilin remained in action until he was wounded. In 1863 he was given command of a battalion with the mission of seizing Charleston, South Carolina, as part of a larger naval action. However, before he saw action he was felled by illness. He was subsequently sent to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to convalesce. After he returned to full duty, President Lincoln appointed him Commandant of the Marine Corps, with the rank of Colonel.
Ten years later, in 1874, Zelin was promoted to Brigadier General, becoming the first general officer to be Marine Commandant. During his tenure as Commandant, he made the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor symbol the official insignia of the USMC. He retired in 1876, after forty-five years in service. |
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| Some adventure in Ufa city (Russian Federation). “sunset under the sky” |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|09:12] |
Hi you all! I'm Tim, I’m traveller. Sometimes I travel on my country and create short movies.
I want to show you some amazing video.
( Ufa is... )
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If you liked this post, please register under this reference http://vk.com/reg1084994 , this will help me to win a laptop. |
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| Gay Imperialism |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|20:07] |
15. Jin Haritaworn, with Tamsila Tauqir and Esra Erdem, "Gay Imperialism: Gender and Sexuality Discourse in the ‘War on Terror’".
Racism is the vehicle that transports white gays and feminists into the political mainstream. Haritaworn et al discusses the interaction between gay rights and the "war on terror" -- namely, how some white gay activists have struck a mutually-beneficial bargain with neoimperialists, such that "concern" for Muslim queers is used to gay-wash Islamophobic agendas, in return for sexual rights being elevated to the status of a core social value, on par with "freedom" and "democracy." As a result, the social position of white gays is improved, while the position of queer Muslims is worsened. Haritaworn focuses the discussion on Germany and the United Kingdom, and draws parallels with similar neoimperialist bargains struck by white feminists.
There are a lot of rhetorical maneuvers here that are familiar to me. For instance, despite Muslim queers of color being the alleged central figures of the narrative, their voices are written out of the narrative (white gays speak "for" them) unless they are willing to testify in ways that are useful to the imperialist frame:...the journalists wanted me to respond to the ‘difficulties’ of being gay and Muslim, as well as to the homophobia of Muslim communities in Britain and abroad. I often suggested shifting the focus to the considerable work being done within liberal and progressive Islam. Journalists reacted with silence when I asked them to report on progressive Imams who have conducted Nikahs (Muslim marriage contracts) for same-sex couples, or on parents who had supported their gay children. Other rhetorical attacks white gay activists include framing people of color as straight oppressors of white gays and as possessors of unique privileges ("imagine someone getting away with saying that about a black person"). Meanwhile, within Muslim communities, since gay-rights rhetoric so often acts as a carrier/justifier for Islamophobia, gay rights becomes equated with anti-Muslim racism, thus worsening the position of Muslim queers.
Some maneuvers detailed by Haritaworn et al are new to me. Most audacious, in my mind, is equating Muslim anti-gay rhetoric with the neo-Nazi anti-gay rhetoric of the British National Party, a move that paints Muslims and neo-Nazis as allies (!?), and thus elevating gays to the ever-coveted "most oppressed" status.
The article is fairly heavy in academic language (I found it rough going in places), but it was well worth my time. Unfortunately, you'll notice that the link above goes to a Google cache of the original article: one of the white gay activists discussed in the paper appears to have successfully pressured the publisher into declaring the original anthology out of print.
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| Summerland Gardens in the Summertime. |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|19:43] |
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|22:34] |
Just back from Arlington, where I hung out with ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) adrian_turtle, baked with her, and let her take care of me (nothing specific, I just noticed that this was how things were shaping in terms of who made lunch and such). She also put candles in some of the cookies we had baked, gave me a birthday present, and took me out for sushi.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cattitude and I have signed a renewal lease; somehow, we always seem to get something wrong on the paperwork, but I think I caught the only error this time, namely dating a number of things November 8, 2010, and fixed it.
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