I started my bookstore job on Tuesday. ... Guys. GUYS. THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS IN THE WORLD AND I GET TO CHILL WITH THEM AND GET PAID FOR IT . :DDDD (Restocking the erotica section is a little weird...so I can hang out with Joan Allen.) ... This entry has no unifying theme. I mean, other than "DEAR INTERNETS: HERE ARE THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY. ALSO, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY SOON. ALSO, I'M A CAMWHORE.

You know it occurs to me that some lesbians are actively fighting for the right to get married and in some countries that right is denied them; yet my decision not to marry is continually subject to...then society sees no point in validating the union. I swear I'm not out there looking for this stuff ;-) But the timing is pretty good, heh. So's the blog, which I recommend highly all around

Prop 8 Spokesman Says Defeating Gays is Like Defeating Hitler This is ugly. If any of you live in California, please vote NO on 8. Say no to hate. So NO to the kind of lunacy in the link above.

...like "I'm pansexual!" has always made me feel like I want to have sex with the god Pan. That's not particularly true (though nor is it particularly untrue, I suppose) and so I tend to just go with "queer." I haven't slept with a guy in around three years or dated one since college, and I also don't want the bisexuality connotations of "Oh she'll end up with a guy when she wants kids." (The bisexuality...

The MRI scan came back normal, having been beamed to Very Important Specialist in Oxford.  Some blood tests which had come out a bit odd were redone and came back normal (Paediatrician Relative reckons...to be 'just one of those things newborns do sometimes'. ooh, ooh, typing one handed now because they've just brought him thro to me.  no wires! just my darling baby feeding like he used to. *weeps

This was supposed to be twice as long, but.. keyboard! (see post below this one) If tomorrow is not too chaotic, maybe I will be able to finish it, even? We'll see... Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! :) ...and as deadly as ever." Andy smiled and nodded, before walking out the door and bristly making her way towards her car. Hopefully her quarry had taken the bait. Hook, line and sinker...   - - - -

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

I have just spent the past hour replacing the rubber dome spring of my I key, which was broken, with the dome spring of my Windows Start Key ... (it took so long as I had to figure it all out the hard...new rubber dome springs before I run out of options. I will now calm my nerves and go and write some of Bodyguard III . I just wanted you to know, after all, a keyboard is relevant to writing...

(I wrote this post for an entry on a filter so secret you probably don't know it exists, but several people found it useful so I thought I'd go crazy, edit it a bit and post it in transgender...of strangers to hold me up, all I have to work with is language, and I'm starting to come around to the idea that that's just fine. I am a poet; inventing the world with words is what I do best.

(This is speaking from the perspective of a queer person) There is a stereotype about queers being prosmiscuous and hypersexual. This stereotype runs even in the biggest, most queer friendly places like SF and Sydney. And it hurts. The stereotype that queer relationships are 'about sex' and un-family-friendly has been one of the major roadblocks towards legal equality including legal same-sex marriage...