I just skimmed the whole f_W mods vs the site owners wank.

It must be because I'm old. Because, you know, f_w amuses me to no end, but its meta-wank just makes me want to smack people with the grow-the-fsck-up-already stick.

Yeah, I'm as disappointed as many other people on my flist about the election thing. But I'm not really angry at the people who did not vote my way. Disappointed, yes. Disenfranchised, even, in a way. The nation basically said "what's important to you is not important to us, and you've just been overruled." Whether they were simply confused as to which candidate represents which important thing is sort of beyond the point. Their perception of it beat out mine.

Thing is, that's nothing new.

I'm used to what I want not mattering. For most of my life I've had the wrong spending habits, the wrong lifestyle, the wrong interests.

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In any case, I can't really call the people who voted for Bush stupid. Mistaken? Yes. Suffering from Poor Judgment. In my opinion. But then, so many of them think quite negatively of me as well - feminist, geek, freak, liberal - by those for whom those labels are dire insults.

I can't be sorry for who I am, no matter what others think of me, but I can be... disappointed.

So, um, I am scheduled to be an aunt on Thursday. Actually, I've already been an aunt for two years, but this time it's my other brother - the one who lives only a couple of town away from me.

This means I get to dote in person and will be more involved in child-rearing. I've already reassured the parents that they can call my cell phone at any time and I'm willing to be on-call for emergency babysitting at any time. (There's not much in my life that can't be canceled or postponed occasionally for family obligations.)

The scheduling bit concerned me a bit, but apparently it's more of a precautionary thing to be sure the labor comes under controlled conditions (it's a moderate risk pregnancy and M's been having blood pressure spikes). So, unless M goes into labor early, I'm going to have a baby niece come Thursday. How weird is that?