Update: Weeks Everywhere.
Weekly post of not reading notes, I choose you! Use your bullet seedlist attack! (oh god I am such a dork)
[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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
chagrined .
- 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 .
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Also we haven't gotten a room for FC yet; we could share if you were going.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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