Update: Weeks Everywhere.

[rax]

Weekly post of not reading notes, I choose you! Use your bullet seedlist attack! (oh god I am such a dork)

• I. Have. COUCHES. <3 This means that instead of sitting and doing my readings in bed (which is supposed to be psychologically bad or something and also the back support is not great), or sitting at the dining room table, I can sit and do readings in the library, which has matching couches and each couch has a little table in front of it for laptops and books and the one I'm using now even has a LAMP. <3 It's pretty awesome. Also, new couches smell kinda weird; this confuses the cats [0] as much as it confuses me. I'm sure after a while that fades. It's like new car smell, but for couches! Neither of which I seem to enjoy terribly.
• Netiquette question: I basically don't use facebook, but I have an account, because otherwise I don't get invited to parties and my family uses facebook messaging instead of email. This isn't awesome, but I'd rather hear from them on facebook instead of not at all, you know? Generally when someone sends me a message it's either private or something for some sort of application I'm comfortable ignoring, but today I got like fifteen messages on my "Wall" saying happy birthday. Do the rules of Facebook etiquette require I respond to each one individually? All in one go, with an additional "wall" post? Not at all? I have posted to Facebook I think twice ever, once to say "I don't use this, contact me elsewhere" and once to say "I'm moving to Indiana." I want to do the correct thing but oh my god I think I got more facebook messages this morning than I had previously received total.
• Some of y'all are furry pornographers! (Maybe some of y'all are regular pornographers too, but I don't keep track.) The Kinsey Institute, which I can see from the window of my office, is having a Juried Art Show. Y'all should represent, and if you need somebody to handle stuff on the ground, I'm happy to help.
• I will be spending most of Saturday at the Queering the Countryside conference. I'll be taking notes, though I don't know if I'll transcribe them all (I will probably use paper because I am sure there will be competition for outlets and I don't mind paper). I may not go to the "fun" events because free food I can't eat and liquor is not really my idea of "fun" and sitting and listening to people talk is. I... have sort of turned into a square. ^^;; Except a square wearing pink and black striped armwarmers with stars on them? I dunno. Anyway, this conference should be awesome, and I will try to post some kind of writeup even if it is just "hey dwircleflist [1] here is the PDF I am handing in to my professor about this, read if you want to!"
• Amazon is trying to sell me video games on sale. Kiiiiind of tempted to allow it to do so. I've seen good reviews for the new DS Final Fantasy and for Rock Band 3 (which I think my mom will kill me if I don't have when she gets here for Thanksgiving, although there is no way I am buying all the new peripherals I need that money to go visit people) --- if I get both of those I can get some other game for free. One person has said good things about DWIX; I could also get Pokemon Ranger instead. Sadly, they don't have Pokemon Mystery Dungeon as part of the list, as I hear that's basically Pokemon and Roguelikes, Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together!
• I'm planning travel through, like, May. (Anyone know when Steer Roast is going to be with sufficient certainty that I could just buy tickets?) Right now it's looking like this:




• Dec 15--Jan 2: San Francisco for Catgirl Goth Rave and general madness, with possibility of jaunt down to LA for a bit


• Jan 13--Jan 16: Further Confusion in San Jose, although I am not 100% committed to this yet, I need to decide if I'm comfortable dealing with the hotel and con costs. But a lot of people I want to see will be there and one of my housemates might come with me.


• Jan 28--Jan 31: I get to see Ruth!


• Mar 11--Mar 16: Tentatively:Seattle! Highly influenced, of course, by the presence of certain coyotes.


• Mar 16--Mar 21: Tentatively:New England! To see friends and family once the weather isn't that terrible.




• Also I continue to work on my papers, even if just a little bit here and there, and it's awesome. I am especially psyched for my TST paper obviously but I am also happy about the Concepts of Gender paper, which will be working with some of the same ideas but in a very different theoretical framework, one that's more clearly related to current lived experience of people who aren't me. I think the balance is good.
• Hope you all are doing well! It's back to work with me now...

[0] Yes, cats plural. Oolong is still here due to non-hilarious airline hijinks. Current plan is for Cassandra to take her when she gets the stuff that's still here; in the meantime I am blessed with another couple of weeks of her company.

[1] Totally stole "dwircleflist" from chagrined .

Comments

[chagrined]

I usually ignore facebook birthday messages. I mean, I read them, but I don't respond to them, unless they say something I particularly want to respond to. ON THAT NOTE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! lol, I was trying to decide where to deposit your birthday greeting, and I was like, "Rachel doesn't use facebook much! Should I do IM? A text message?" But you fixed this problem by making a DW post since this is my preferred method of communicating with anyone, heh.

I wonder if the Kinsey would take my Fox in Socks porn, or if that'd be blocked due to copyright infringement or something.

I like "dwircleflist" a ton except it's long and hard to type. XD Still trying to figure that one out, heh.

[rax]

Parody is fair use! :)

[hao]

I don't know anything about Facebook etiquette, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY I'd have made you a stupid huge sparkly post but I'm literally falling asleep on the keyboard over here.

[rax]

Thanks. <3

[lhexa]

Yay couches! Boo social uncertainties due to new forms of communication! Happy birthday!

On the subject of weird roguelikes, have you tried Spelunky or Shoot First? It's interesting how well the roguelike sensibility can be adapted to other genres.

As for your papers, you've hinted that they pertain in some way to furry... so can I read it once you have a draft? *grins* The theory of furry is of some importance to me.

[rax]

I have not tried them yet although Spelunky is on my list.

I would love to send you drafts, because I am sure that what you have to say about them will be useful, even if it does not make it into what I hand to my professors this go-round. Also, Austin keeps coming up, and is steadily climbing up my reading priority queue.

Which is like 400 books long aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

[slashaddict.livejournal.com]

Haha I dunno that the Kinsey Institute wants my furry porn, but I guess you never know! XD

I loooooooooooooove your icon *_* Ranger is kinda goofy, although fun. I would recommend Mystery Dungeon fo' sho' if you can get it! :D

[rax.livejournal.com]

The Kinsey Institute wants everybody's furry porn, although their standards for the gallery show may be more specific. They collect, like, all the porn. It's pretty amazing.

I have been collecting adorable pokemon icons recently. :) There are so many!

[bossgoji.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mystery Dungeon is great and so up your alley. POKEMON ROGUELIKE.

[rustycoon.livejournal.com]

Your icons are consistently lolworthy.

My personal favorites are "You're next, bitch" and this one.

[rax.livejournal.com]

Have you seen my newest one?

(I actually have like ten more in a directory on my laptop but I can't decide if I want to give LJ more money just so I can have more pictures of pokemon appear next to comments I leave on the Internet, you know?)

[rustycoon.livejournal.com]

lawl GIC.

[rax.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you just said. (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GIC)

[rustycoon.livejournal.com]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GIP

Subbing 'comment' (C) for 'post' (P)

GIC = Gratuitous Icon Comment. :)

[kelkyag]

What COLOR are your couches? :)

Isn't Steer Roast always the first weekend in May?

[rax.livejournal.com]

They are slate! At some point I will get a picture.

It is, but whenever an April 30 is involved there's some confusion about what weekend it should be, and recent precedent says April 29 -- May 1 should be it, I think, but I don't wanna buy tickets until someone officially confirms that. Having the Friday be in April has totally happened that I remember; I don't remember a Saturday being in April, though it might have happened in 2005 and I just forgot.

[kelkyag]

Much more conservative than I expected, but a good practical color.

Oh. I'm guessing first Saturday in May, then, but I was never a senior house resident, so I don't know!

[rax.livejournal.com]

It matches, Selene's fur doesn't show (much), and I can always put crazy covers on them. :)

[rathdei.livejournal.com]

You are not required to reply to each one individually, or even really at all. But you can make a status that's like "thanks for the birthday wishes!" or something. Also, it is annoying that mom messages me on facebook instead of emailling me now, too, but it is something I check a lot so it's much less annoying for me than for you.

Happy birthday, btw

[rax.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[weirdquark]

Jan 28--Jan 31: I get to see Ruth!

You may possibly also get to see some other people at this time too.

[rax.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope so! :) I know there were some issues of confusion with other people's travel --- are you going to be there then? It would certainly be awesome to see you.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I should hand the Institvte some of my freakier logs, do they take text? :)

[krdbuni.livejournal.com]

"Entries must be original works in any media including: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture, ceramics, fibers, mixed media, and performance pieces."

I have no idea since they don't mention text anywhere in their listing but they say "any media." I'm sadly inclined to think the answer is "no" but it might be worth asking them.

[rax.livejournal.com]

I suspect you could hand them a binder on a stand or something, but it's going to be a gallery exhibit, so you have to deal with the somewhat limited attention span most people will have going through something like that. In other exhibits of theirs I've seen, they've had books under glass and reproductions of individual pages you could look at. (Though presumably a scholar could show up later and look at the whole book.)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Oooh, showing Pushy's work at the Kinsey institute would totally rule.

Also we haven't gotten a room for FC yet; we could share if you were going.

[rax.livejournal.com]

You were the first person I thought of for the Kinsey thing.

Actually. Yes! That would be awesome! Want to get a room at the Marriott? I have superleetbusinessdork status and can get a 10% discount which I think makes it cheaper than the overflow hotel, and it's equidistant.

Alternately if we can score a main hotel room off someone else that would be great too.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I shudder to imagine the amount of social work involved in getting a room in the main hotel! I really wish I'd gotten off my butt and got one myself before they ran out, but I was, um, kiiiinda busy with the move and all.

OH GOD I CAN'T DECIDE WHAT TO SUBMIT I've got it down to seven of Pushy's pieces but they'll only take SIX

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I shudder to imagine the amount of social work involved in getting a room in the main hotel! I really wish I'd gotten off my butt and got one myself before they ran out, but I was, um, kiiiinda busy with the move and all.

OH GOD I CAN'T DECIDE WHAT TO SUBMIT I've got it down to seven of Pushy's pieces but they'll only take SIX <small i dunno, you're the bona fide gender studier, what do <em>you</em> think they'd like?</small>

*ponder* no, I am <em>not</em> going to do a finished version of <a href=http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3814048/>Trusting Circle Entrance</a> specifically for the show, tempting though it is. Also the maximum dimension is 60" which thankfully rules out doing some more work to <a href=http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3448862/>Murine Excess Delightful</a> and printing it out WALL-SIZED.

[rax.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know woo much about who's going to be judging these. But from seeing their collection a bit, I would say there's a lot of value to exposing people to the kind of stuff they may never have seen; there's tons of S&M and some really fascinating abstract artwork but most things I saw (from a small subset of the collection, mind you) are really tied to human/humanoid forms and I know Pushy has some work that subverts those expectations. That's what I'd like to see more of there; I have no idea if that's what'll win their art show.

Lemme know if you want me to just snag a Marriott room? I don't really feel like running the "help I'm a last-minute furry" plot either.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, let's do it!

[rax.livejournal.com]

I can't get there until Friday. Should I also reserve it for Thursday night?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*ponders* Mmm, naaah, from what I hear from other artists sales really aren't much on the first day.

EDIT. Actually let me coordinate with the person I'll be sharing a table with before I make a final choice; I'll probably be seeing her tonight or tomorrow.

[rax.livejournal.com]

...edit didn't email me, so I didn't see it until now, but I can change the reservation, just let me know. :)

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

It is supercool to hear about Nice Things in your life - and especially your travel schedule bringing you out here, that's a Nice Thing for us! :D

[rax.livejournal.com]

It's a nice thing for me too. <3

[somnialcat.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! (no individual reply necessary, IMHO ;)

[rax.livejournal.com]

I will reply anyway and say thank you! :)

[jackbishop.livejournal.com]

Do the rules of Facebook etiquette require I respond to each one individually? All in one go, with an additional "wall" post?

Sure hope not. I pretty much always ignore the birthday avalanche (and ignore most everything else people say on Facebook, even directly to me, actually).

And, hey, happy birthday.

At some point I really will drag my sorry ass up to Bloomington -- kinda hoping to wrangle a colloquium talk out of the math department or something so as to have a good excuse.

[rax.livejournal.com]

Some day I should make it down there, too. I've been, uh, on the crazy side. ^^;; Anytime you can make it, though, you're totally welcome and it would be great to see you!

[bookofjude.livejournal.com]

I already need to stop buying games that I'll never play. It's such a hard thing to do. :/

[rax.livejournal.com]

The sale expired while I wasn't paying attention, so now I'm not buying any of them, which is probably OK. :)

Give in...

[mzsylver.livejournal.com]

You should totally buy Dragon Warri- I mean Quest IX.

As someone who spends most of her day stuck in bed, this is an excellent use of time =D

Also, if you are ever in Boston/NYC/Wisconsin/Illinois while I am, we can go Treasure Hunting together. (Peter Sullivan owns the game, too - if he ever visits from far away Seattle).

[ab3nd.livejournal.com]

I hear the reason you are supposed to not do homework in bed is that it means you are doing intense mental effort in a place that is supposed to be for anti-intense complete lack of mental effort, and so it sets up the wrong associations.

The secret is to do everything everywhere, so the associations are totally averaged and mixed up.

[(Anonymous)]

HI Rax.

I just happened across your livejournal, how've you been? Back to the student life, I see. :-) I was thinking about going back for something myself some year, although first I need to save up since these degree things can be expensive. How far along are you?

If it makes you feel any better about the "working in bed" thing, I've been doing most of my NaNoWriMo writing (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/746683) in bed myself, and haven't been doing too badly! 34% complete already, awww yeah.

Anyway, hope you are well and things are generally going according to plan. I think I probably owe you some money, drop me a line at zigtinyplasticgreyknight@yahoo.zig.com* with an amount and I'll send it off.

(* to avoid spammers, take off every zig)

-- GreyKnight