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Jul. 13th, 2012 03:37 amI am currently working on my second night in a row of no sleep whatsoever. I would like just a little nap before the office, to quote Rex Harrison in the Reluctant Debutante. Human beings are supposed to sleep once in a while. There was a BSG episode all about the bad things that happen when the bad guys won't let you sleep. It won a Hugo Award.
On the bright side, this particular bout of insomnia has not led me to write reams and reams of unsolicited midnight feedback for a few different WIPs, unlike the last bout. Which is good, because that feedback got embarrassingly long, and was only semi-coherent. See above re: sleep deprivation.
Reblogging from tumblr, an open letter to all those men who don't think rape jokes are a problem.
I have downloaded Alison Martel's "Wolf Hall" onto Aeryn Sun. I'm warned it's not entirely historically accurate, but I was also told in the strongest possible terms by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
saraht, whose judgment I respect, that the book's so damn good I won't care. Let's hope they're right, since I already paid for it.
Speaking of novels, what's a good entry-level Lois McMaster Bujold? Bearing in mind that my only exposure to Bujold's universe and characters has been in the Harry Potter/Bujold crossover fic Time Shall Not Mend, by AJ Hall.
Young Miss Weaver has managed to scratch one of her ears bloody for no apparent reason. Idiot animal. Her human namesake was far more sensible, in spite of being six years old (and a fictional character). Am monitoring situation in case it gets worse and she needs the vet to put one of those cone things on her head. Thank God for pet insurance. But whose genius idea was it to domesticate animals as pets, anyway? Alas, that person is lost in the mists of our hunter-gatherer past, but they were a STUPID person. We should've stuck with livestock.
jesuswasbatman has thinky thoughts about James Bond and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Some lovely Avengers meta about team interaction, for the people on my flist who aren't sick unto death of the fandom yet.
Asking on behalf of a friend who lives nowhere near but needs to know for a fic, has anybody taken the Puget Sound ferries from Seattle to Vancouver or Victoria? And if so, were there armed guards and when were your passports checked, when you entered or exited the ferry? The last time I did one of those trips was several years before 9/11 and it was all very relaxed. No armed guards, no passport checks (you didn't need a passport then to travel between Canada and the US, just valid photo ID). Is it stricter now?
On the bright side, this particular bout of insomnia has not led me to write reams and reams of unsolicited midnight feedback for a few different WIPs, unlike the last bout. Which is good, because that feedback got embarrassingly long, and was only semi-coherent. See above re: sleep deprivation.
Reblogging from tumblr, an open letter to all those men who don't think rape jokes are a problem.
I have downloaded Alison Martel's "Wolf Hall" onto Aeryn Sun. I'm warned it's not entirely historically accurate, but I was also told in the strongest possible terms by
saraht, whose judgment I respect, that the book's so damn good I won't care. Let's hope they're right, since I already paid for it. Speaking of novels, what's a good entry-level Lois McMaster Bujold? Bearing in mind that my only exposure to Bujold's universe and characters has been in the Harry Potter/Bujold crossover fic Time Shall Not Mend, by AJ Hall.
Young Miss Weaver has managed to scratch one of her ears bloody for no apparent reason. Idiot animal. Her human namesake was far more sensible, in spite of being six years old (and a fictional character). Am monitoring situation in case it gets worse and she needs the vet to put one of those cone things on her head. Thank God for pet insurance. But whose genius idea was it to domesticate animals as pets, anyway? Alas, that person is lost in the mists of our hunter-gatherer past, but they were a STUPID person. We should've stuck with livestock.
jesuswasbatman has thinky thoughts about James Bond and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Some lovely Avengers meta about team interaction, for the people on my flist who aren't sick unto death of the fandom yet.
Asking on behalf of a friend who lives nowhere near but needs to know for a fic, has anybody taken the Puget Sound ferries from Seattle to Vancouver or Victoria? And if so, were there armed guards and when were your passports checked, when you entered or exited the ferry? The last time I did one of those trips was several years before 9/11 and it was all very relaxed. No armed guards, no passport checks (you didn't need a passport then to travel between Canada and the US, just valid photo ID). Is it stricter now?
