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Friday, November 21st, 2008
undomielregina	12:36p	Oh Twilight... Okay...on Daily Puppy, the two dogs of the day are Edward and Bella. This cannot be a coincidence. (Comment on this)
pishbadlarr	8:43a	So, I've given up on NaNo for this year. I'm a little saddened, because I did feel like I was doing really well compared to normal this year. But last week I decided to leave the lazy and procrastinating Mr. Pish, so I've been spending all my time packing and trying to get my life in order. Oh, and Wrath of the Lich King. That snuck its way into my time somehow too. So on Sunday I'll be packing the computer up and Monday will commence the two-day drive from Washington back to Minnesota. It sucks massively, considering I have to leave all the animals behind and don't even get me started on the mess that is my car situation. Yesterday was so crummy I crawled in bed at 6pm and played DS games until I fell asleep. But hey, new start, right? New job, maybe being able to go back to school, rent-free and grocery-cost-free for as long as I can stand my mom's house, new-and-improved as she may be. And maybe I'll be able to get back to my NaNo project and keep working on it. ( In conclusion, a screenshot! ) (Comment on this)
slythwolf	8:48a	"Moms" Nigel has just turned off CNN, which was reporting on a new McDonald's marketing campaign wherein several "real moms" (as opposed to fake moms?) travel the country volunteering for the corporation and trying to convince other moms that McDonald's food is healthy. Now, I am not about to try to tell you what to put into your own body, even if it has 500 calories (GASP) and 25 grams of fat (shock! horror!). Something we have lost sight of in this country is the fact that calories and fat are not only okay--permissible for moral, upstanding people to consume; not a sin--you actually need them to survive. So, as I have explained before, it's okay to eat what sounds good to you at the time that you're actually hungry. In fact, it's demonstrably better for you than attempting to restrict yourself to what you think you're "supposed" to eat.1 But one of the "real moms" who works for McDonald's (or, whatever, "volunteers", I am so sure they're not paying her in any way) said something about "McDonald's is giving moms a voice", and it reminded me of something. That something was Lauredhel (of Hoyden About Town)'s guest post at Shapely Prose the other day, about the phrase "the obese". If you don't want to take the time to click through, the post is basically about how using a word or phrase like "the obese", or "the disabled", or any number of similar words and phrases, to define a group of people without describing them as people first--people of size, people with disabilities--is dehumanizing, because it gives the impression that they are, and are only, that characteristic. So. "Moms". As soon as a woman gives birth, she becomes one of the collective of faceless, equivalent female human beings known as "moms", and she stays that way, as near as I can tell, until her child or children all reach adulthood. She is a mom, and to the advertising industry, politicians, and society at large, that's all that she is, or at least the only thing about her that's important. Unless she's not married, in which case she's a "single mom", or is in a romantic relationship with a woman, in which case she's an "abomination against God whose children should be taken away immediately".3 Why the hell don't we call these women "women with minor children"? They are women first. They are people first. But oh no, we don't, because the first, last and only important thing about any woman is and will always be what she is doing with her uterus now, has done with it in the past, will do with it in the future, or ought to be forced to do with it by the state. And of course as soon as any woman gives birth4, her life and anything she might want to do with it is to be subordinate to the whims of her child, and she is to sacrifice herself in every possible way in order to allow that child the slightest benefit. I also find it interesting and telling that it's always "moms" and never "dads" who are consulted, about whose opinions the advertising industry and corporations generally worry, with regard to the welfare of children. Of course "moms" make all the decisions about what kids eat, where they play, how they play, what they wear, what they do, how they bathe, whether the kitchen is clean enough for them not to get salmonella without also being poisoned by toxic chemicals, etc. This is related to the above idea, of course; that when a woman has a child, her life revolves around that child, whereas when a man fathers a child, his life remains basically the same, with the minor addition of someone new to play catch with on the weekends if he feels like it. 1. Unless you're my mom, who is allergic to most kinds of shellfish but will always gorge herself on shrimp and lobster anyway whenever the opportunity presents itself, causing two or three days of hives and diarrhea. Oh, Mom. What am I gonna do with you?--But still, I don't judge her for this, because if she feels that those two or three days of misery are a worthwhile price to pay for the purported deliciousness</sup>2</sup> of shrimp and lobster, well hell, it's her body, she can do what she likes. 2. I myself am not into seafood. Mostly. Unless it's spicy tuna roll. 3. In case anybody doesn't get the sarcasm, the Wolf does not actually endorse this position. 4. Or, according to some people, gets pregnant. (Comment on this)
atalantapendrag	5:59a	why why why I crawled off to bed around 1 am with 40mg of Valium and a few drinks under my belt and I woke up before 5 am WHAT THE FUCK. Put my Monsterbait: Underpants up on eBay. Wondering if I should put the Chanukkiyah spare bottle up there as well. Thankfully nothing from the BPTP update is tempting me. I am still wibbling over Candy Phoenix, though. I have butterscotch/vanilla shots I got at Spec's... maybe I should have one... I'm in no mood to be clearheaded. But I'm doing not so bad. Maintenance is supposed to come today to fix my lack of hot water in the kitchen (totally his fault), broken heater, and stiff backdoor lock (get your mind out of the gutter). My wrenched knee still hurts but it's not swollen or anything. I am looking grotesquely forward to getting an Eee. Falernum is tasty and makes me want to mix Tiki drinks. Cream of coconut, falernum, and a little spiced rum, what could go wrong? Not having a blender, cream of coconut, or rum puts a cramp in that. God, this entry makes me sound like a lush. Current Mood: ditzy Current Music: Coast to Coast AM (Comment on this)
chaimonkey	3:57a	twilight review! Well, I rather liked it. Though I'm sure it helped that we had Tonks in the row in front of us - she was awesome. ( Do these really count as spoilers? ) Current Mood: sparkley (Comment on this)
notjo	3:47a	( warning: twilight ) Oh yeah. Cornfield. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
calystarose	12:31a	SPN 4.10 ( so briefly ) Posted to: , &   |   Current Mood: impressed Current Music: David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
slackeremeritus	9:09p	I am such a doooooooooork. So I'm a Gaia Online user. Yes, yes, get the giggling/sniggering/pointing and laughing/kumquat out of the way now. Anyway, I've been tooling around on Gaia for about four years now. I've been consistently bug-hunting for two of those four years; in the real-time interactive area known as Towns, there are insects the user can catch and collect. These can be traded into make inks for use in dyeing paper and making tattoos, but I digress. There are several rare bugs that can pop up on occasion. In my two years of bug-hunting, I have only seen any of these rare bugs today. In fact, I saw six of them. And caught them all. It is a small, silly, stupid little thing to be happy about, I suppose, but damnit, it makes me happy. Current Mood: silly Current Music: Izumikawa Sora — Yahoo! (Comment on this)
atalantapendrag	8:40p	MOSTLY a nice afternoon/evening So, got to hang with doombuggie this afternoon. Had an awesome time! We had a yummy meal at Jason's, some iced coffee at Epoch, hit Home Depot so he could get a watering can, went to Spec's (a big liquor/fancy foods store) for some goodies, HEB for some normal groceries, Walgreens for my Valium, and Earthbound for some crabs. Wonderfully fun time, except in HEB, I saw my ex-husband... we walked right by him in the soda aisle. No words were exchanged, but I could tell he recognized me. Oh god oh god I am so glad I was not alone, or dressed schlumpily (I was rockin' a HolyClothing minidress and black leggings, which is my new favorite look). But oh god oh god oh god. I hadn't seen him since the divorce. I had thought that I would never see him again. Well, after that we went to Walgreens and I downed two Valium right off. And when we were at Earthbound doombuggie got me a crab to cheer me up. The crab in question is now named Dib. The Valium is kicking in nicely, I feel comfortably blurred around the edges. If I still feel upset I have Amarula to mix with hot chocolate, or Keke Beach Key Lime Cream to mix with milk. I also have lots of good chocolate. Current Mood: high (Comment on this)
thebratqueen	8:19p	Radio TBQ Been a while since I've done one of these. ( As always, tags indicate subjects included ) Current Mood: recumbent (Comment on this)
calystarose	6:28p	Meme and Links Screencap meme snagged from luna_k: + stop what you're doing. + print screen of your current desktop - my desktop, I have had this wallpaper since..wow...like April maybe. I did recently give it a pink/purple 'wash' though. + if you have last.fm open, print screen - last.fm profile page + if you have a music player open, print screen - iTunes + pick a folder, open it, print screen - my bandom picture folder. :D Links of interest: Live "Furby" Found in Indonesia - actually a pygmy tarsier, but dude it totally looks like a furby. I imagine they're far less annoying though. :) iSerenity Ambient Sounds Offer Soothing Background Noise - I really like the Roaring Ocean one. How Axl Rose Spent All That Time - NYT Review, unsurprisingly not glowing. I liked this part of the article: “Chinese Democracy” sounds like a loud last gasp from the reign of the indulged pop star: the kind of musician whose blockbuster early success could once assure loyal audiences, bountiful royalties, escalating ambitions and dangerously open-ended deadlines. The leaner, leakier 21st-century recording business is far less likely to nurture such erratic perfectionists. (snip) The new rock paradigm, a throwback to the 1950s and early 1960s, is to record faster, more cheaply and more often, then head out on tour before the next YouTube sensation distracts potential fans. I've been thinking something along those lines for awhile now. I personally think that the superstar nonsense lead to all the crap music of the 90s. I'd rather see a return to working musicians. But that's me. Back to beta-ing! Posted to: , &   |   Current Mood: busy Current Music: My Chemical Romance - Sleep (Comment on this)
sarajayechan	1:29p	Is anyone else having trouble getting their journal pages to load right? The contents show up but not the style. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
tehrin	9:24a	They hatched~ \o/ Still having some journal problems so I'm on a different theme again. But this one seems to work. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
snacky	9:46a	I'm starting to feel like fandom_lounge is spamming me, and it just won't stop. If I wasn't such a lazy mod, I'd do... something. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
atalantapendrag	8:40a	At least I'm not pregnant Yep, took a peace-of-mind piss test to make sure W. hadn't knocked me up, got a nice soothing negative. More inspection bullshit today. A bit of googling found me a local advocacy group. This may prove necessary. I want this calendar for 2008 very badly. We'll see how my finances stand at the end of the month. They have a nifty LED menorah too. Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Still torturing myself with New Moon (1 Comment |Comment on this)
slackeremeritus	7:31a	At the Garage Huzzah, the complimentary customer Internet works today! And I find this especially good as we got here at 0700 and we'll be here 'til Shub-Niggurath knows when. At least now I can talk to people without eating up my mobile time. Heh. I'm probably going to pay out the nose for getting the truck worked on, as she's over warranty, but I'd rather be safe than sorry when sis and I head North for Turkey Day. Although the weather on our travel days will determine just how far North we go, as I am disinclined to test my driving on foully wintry roads and Granma reports they've already had about three to five inches of snow this week. And no, my icon isn't entirely correct, but that's about how I feel at the moment. Current Mood: groggy Current Music: Night Court theme on TV (Comment on this)
calystarose	7:17a	Bracing myself Last new Supernatural ep of the year. *quakes* See y'all tonight! Posted to: , &   |   Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: The Bravery - Believe (Comment on this)
slythwolf	5:25a	But we knew this already. (Comment on this)
loqia	6:49p	fin. Okay. So JournalPress isn't yet finished but every migration has to be taken in steps, and as an incentive to get me to hurry the fuck along I'm officially declaring this my final post here at the sk.log version of void-star.net. All future posts (and, actually, yesterday's as well) will now go via β. Change is always painful, so those of you who read this via RSS may wish to point to the new feed instead (though it will be "temporary" until the full migration). Those of you who read this via LJ, IJ or JF won't be getting any direct cross-posts for a while, but will instead be receiving updates via Twitter posts (you know, that crap y'all ignore). Comments may, of course, still go on the respective journal entries. And for those of you who just land here randomly, or still live in 2001 and access this site via static links (yeah, I'm looking at you)… well, you'll be seeing an awful lot of this same post. But that's nothing new, right? The actual full site migration is still scheduled for some time in the new year (and yes, all you Ulfrun detractors, it'll even have a new layout, and I'm sure you're all breathless in anticipation), so in the meantime you'll just have to deal with the mess. Which is actually a pretty relevant metaphor for life, really. Hey, maybe I can put up a long, ranty splash page about what I'm doing instead of just leaving this message up. With a progress bar! That's cool nowadays, right? I'm so hipnhappenin! Mirrored from v-s.net. Comments are preferred on the original. (Comment on this)
sepiamagpie	1:39a	GUYS GUYS GUYS I've always been jealous of Bernie and his 'bear' friends so I made myself a bear character in city of heroes after being inspired by this other guy and his called Psioni Cub and it's totally cool. Meet... ( Xuan Xuan. She's a bear! A panda bear! ) I think she looks a lot more bear-y than those guys bears. They all just look like big hairy men, they don't even use the teddy bear ears. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
stimutacs	11:17p	HAY JOURNALFEN, HAY! MUCH MUCH LOVE TO wieimmer WHO GOT ME THIS. OMG YOU ROCK SO FUCKING HARD. GO HERE. BECAUSE MY INTERNET LIFE IS SPEND MOSTLY ON LJ. Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: Kanye West - Heartless (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
slythwolf	1:08a	Awesome. Check out the vintage wool coat I just bought. I can't wait until it gets here. I really need a new winter coat; the one I have, I bought something like six years and thirty-five pounds ago, so it doesn't really fit anymore. And since this one is below knee-length, it will be extra warm and cozy. Also: $33! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
atalantapendrag	11:57p	Yeah, I post a lot when I'm in a Mood. Deal. The thing about listening to any of the Twilight books in audio... Every time someone says "Bella", I follow it up with "...Lugosi's dead". Bug or feature? I'm debating getting a rename token for i_am_an_hero. When I apped him, I didn't think he'd be more than a fringe cracky character, but now he's my fave of all the ones I play and he's made so much progress that having a mean 4chan joke about suicide for a username seems inappropriate. I dunno. Ah well. Time for Coast to Coast and, I think, bed. Current Mood: blank (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
sisterelwood	12:45a	Click? View? My scroll Current Mood: Dovish (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
amxjm	11:39p	I still don't know what's up with Twilight. This is a real book series - and there's actually more than one book? And people have read it/them? Seriously? I feel so out of touch with this. Heh, I remember seeing "Breaking Dawn: Coming Soon!" icons and thinking it was for a new album by some popular modern rock band. (Comment on this)

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