da Debate! da Debate!

Wow. I slept almost nine hours. I haven't done that in a while. Felt nice, even with the very odd dream about being at Necon only it was being held on what felt like Dartmouth's campus rather than Roger Williams, and the [huge] dorm had transportation portals so you could find the right wing, and I kept getting lost and the only familar person I saw was Kelly and... it was really weird.

Other than that, the extra sleep was nice. Of course, now my morning is running late...


And so, we come down to the question of the week: how many of you plan to watch the VP debate? I'm seriously undecided. I mean, yeah, history in the making, but sometime history is best read about after the fact. So I'll do what all good LJers do, I'll make a poll and YOU can help me decide.*

[Poll #1271014]



EtA: man, you people are going to be disappointed if there's no train wreck, aren't you?


*all poll results are non-binding and for entertainment purposes only

a small editorial argh

Okay folks, listen up and listen right now.

Eyes do not collide. Or if they do, a) you're writing horror or b) your name is Libba Bray (*waves at Libba*. Yes, that scare-the-roommate story still cracks me up)

Gazes may collide. Stares can collide, although that's trickier. But eyes? Remain in sockets. They do not collide, follow someone across the room, jump from item to item, or otherwise do anything that would require them leaving their sockets unless actually leaving their sockets.

Okay? Okay.

Your line-editor thanks you.

It's all so very strange...

Periodically, I check the stats on my website, noting on the number of hits, and where people are coming from. And I've noticed something... okay, not odd, exactly, but.. something that makes me stop and ponder.

There are hits every day from the US and Canada. Okay, that make sense. There are a number of daily hits from the UK and France, and Australia (*waves to my stalker*) and New Zealand (I love seeing hits from New Zealand, I don't know why). I'm published all those places, so it makes sense. Germany, okay, there's crossover from my French Luna publications and I've had short fiction translated into German and likewise Italy, so I can see that.....

The people coming from Denmark, from Saudi Arabia, from Brazil, and South Africa and Romania, Japan and Hungary? Dudes. Where are you hearing about me? And what drives you to enter my name into your search engine and look up my web site?

I mean, I'm delighted to have y'all come for a visit, don't get me wrong. I think it's all fabulous. But there's a part of me that's... I don't know. Taken aback? I mean... it's just me.

(yeah, I have a few self-esteem issues. I'm working on it. This is just... it just sorta freaks me out. In a pleasant, wow, that's weird, are you sure you were looking for ME? kind of way.)

So if you found this LJ via my web site, or by search-engine-of-your-choicing me... feel free to drop me a line, say hi. Maybe even tell me what it was that connected enough that you made made that extra step. I mean, you're getting to know me -- it seems only fair you introduce yourself, too, right?

oh god, can we just have the election already?

So, despite my best efforts, I ended up watching the debate, keeping company with the folk on the sff.net chat [who were kind to my poor missing-an-s keyboard]. My summation?

Palin did her I'm Cute! I Smile! I Regurgitate Talking points! routine and managed not to have a train wreck.

Biden? Hammered McCain, not Cutsie Palin, and did so in a way that actually answered the questions with facts and details [or a much as the time allowed]

The polls may say that Palin won because she didn't self-destruct. Me? Before I didn't dislike Biden. Now? I respect him. I may not always, gods know, agree with him...but I respect him. So I'd say Biden 'won' this round, at least at Ch Felidae (Boomer slept through the debate. Pandora thinks Palin's a Stepford Veep). because, damn. "Cheney is the most dangerous VP in American history." And not just when he's out shooting, either.

And, btw, a memo to the GOP? Do NOT try to play the parent card on Joe Biden. He can see your soccer mom of disabled baby and raise you the widowed husband and loving, attentive father of injured children who grew up unscrewed-up.


and yes, I tried to do the drinking game. But man, after the second "soccer mom" and the third "middle class," I just had to pull over and switch to water....