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from kradical


Top ten reasons why gay marriage is a baaaaaaaaaaaaaad idea.

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Yes, this is satire, in case you missed whose damned-Yankee-liberal-and-basking-in-it journal this is!
Please post this in your journal if you support the idea of gay marriage.



(although I'd be more than willing to turn "marriage" over entirely to the religious function of procreation and tithing if we could have civil unions for those of us who want to have legally-sanctified, tax-benefitting, benefits-benefitting, socially-satisfying formalized partnership of two legal adults... and yes, you can argue for triads etc but let's take it one step at a time so's not to freak the neocons entirely out of the agreement, 'k?)

uh-oh

Pandora likes to burrow. She especially likes to burrow in the drawer where all my exercise gear is stowed (fleece, donchaknow). So I'm sitting here working, and I hear a scrabbling noise as she's trying to get into the drawer. But it's closed.

"It's a real pity you can't open and close drawers, isn't it" I say to her...

Just as she gets her paws into the barest space between drawer and dresser, and manages (while standing on her back legs) to pry the drawer open enough for her to slip in.


Next up: the can opener!


(and in the meanwhile, there's a pair of eyes gleaming from under the folds of my sweatshirt, and a happy rumbling purr rising from within...)

done!

Surrendered the Manuscript!

And lo, BRING IT ON is gone to Madame Editrix.


I now get to take the afternoon off, spend a few days playing with the short stories (and proposals, yes, madame agent, if you're reading this) waiting impatiently in the back-brain, and start prepping for the revision notes on GRAIL QUEST #3, which are scheduled to land on my desk next week...

(no subject)

When you see this on your f-list, quote Firefly.




"Shiny!"


(or, alternatively, "my god! You're like a trained ape! Only without the trained part!")


*happy mellow sunlit post-chinese-food-eating, post-turning-in-book shiny! vibes*

random wino bits

Part of the joys of the Place of Occasional Employment is that the recreational beverage industry has almost as many Events as publishing, and they're even more fun. So last night I got to slip out and attend the 45th Annual Fall Wine Tasting at the Manor, a fancy-shmancy restaurant nearby. They had three large rooms set up, divided into "old world" wines, "new world" wines, and "fine spirits." Plus two large rooms filled with tables of food. For the most part, this wasn't a hoty-toity wine tasting, but rather a solid demonstration of the accessible wines available, said demonstration being marketed to the retail side (moi) and the restaurant trade.

Interestingly enough, everyone I spoke to thought I was restaurant-side (i.e. owner/bartender/hostess/sommelier). I'm not sure what this says about me but I'm taking it as a positive. Anyway, I won't bore you with everything I tried (I was there for three hours, which is a lot of sip, swirl and spit!). But there were some notable standouts.

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What all this showed me is that, if I had to look for full-time employment in this field, I think I'd want to be a wine buyer. Those guys have allll the fun. :-)