I’ve got such a lovely group of commenters here that I want to hear a bit more from you, not just in response to my writing. Lurkers, this is your cue to delurk if you feel comfortable to do so.
By request:
Here is a guinea pig, a satin Peruvian one in fact. At least, I think there’s a guinea pig somewhere in there.
Here is baking goodness in the form of a sandcastle cake (via Cake Wrecks):
And here is Tennant:
Never will sitting in a wardrobe with a cup of tea be the same again.
I have some questions for you, readers. Answer one, some or all.
- What’s going on for you today?
- How did you pick your screenname?
- Do you have any hobbies?
- What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
- Where are you from and what do you like about home?
- What’s your favourite book?
Have fun!
My favourite book is “The Sparrow,” by Mary Doria Russell. It’s my favourite book because it rocks. No, really, it does. It’s a book which blends anthropology and science fiction and religion in really interesting and exciting ways, while being very relevant both to modern society and human history. And it’s just brilliantly written. Kind of hard to believe that Russell was a technical writer and this book basically just came out of nowhere.
The sequel, “Children of God,” I’m not so into. I mean, I liked exploring the world a little more, but I don’t think it’s essential.
* What’s going on for you today?
Well I’m clearly not here participating in an open thread, because I am writing an essay on feminist critiques of Rawls’ Theory of Justice.
* How did you pick your screenname?
I use my real name a lot, but when I don’t I use a name I made up for D&D when I was 15, and used and expanded on in alt.callahans in ancient ‘net history.
* Do you have any hobbies?
Knitting! (but you knew that), belly dancing, wine, cooking, music (listening, not playing)
* What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
Conflicting valid claims both personally and socially
* Where are you from and what do you like about home?
Sydney personally – family ties to Taree. Sydney feels like home. Taree feels warm and fuzzy for a couple of days, and then I need to run away.
* What’s your favourite book?
No idea. I can never nominate a favourite anything that I like more than 3 of.
What’s going on for you today?
Classes and other stuff I don’t like/could not care less for
Do you have any hobbies?
In the name of protest I watercolor in class, being weird for the sake of being weird, hair dye
What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
Feeling overwhelmed, not being able to do a lot/all that I want
Where are you from and what do you like about home?
Good ol’ Nashville Tennessee (tennahsaye). I kinda miss my hood and our random fires and other drama. I mostly miss my home & my parents, going downtown & watching the hipsters and wannabe cowboys–in a different city for uni.
today i’m at work, watching some much needed rain fall outside. looking forward to going home to be cozy. social justice-wise, i have a tendency to get overwhelmed with the magnitude of the task. the idea that i, as a white cis middle class woman with liberal parents, am one of the most liberated women in the history of the entire world can really depress me, given how many things remain for me to be liberated from. so much work to be done – it’s hard to remember that little progress counts too and something doesn’t have to solve every problm ever to be meaningful.
my favorite book is through the looking glass by lewis carroll – with the annotations by martin gardner.
Okay so at first I was like ‘oh, probably won’t de-lurk’. THEN I SAW DAVID TENNANT IN A CUPBOARD WITH A CUP OF TEA and my heart fluttered and my hands shook and a little sigh may have escaped my lips and I just had to mention it. (Apologies for caps but it was very exciting.)
Your questions for me are too complex to answer without going on too much. But at the moment I’m struggling with writing a post about the way feminists in the western world approach FGM and how this intersects with racism/colonialism and trans* issues. I’m also trying to make a film.
I’ve never been good at picking just one thing, I tend to like an author rather than a book. At the moment I’m reading For Whom The Bell Tolls (Hemingway) and 2666 (Roberto Bolano).
1. Today I will be tutoring and working on my thesis.
2. It’s my real name.
3. I do some fandom-related stuff, plus photography (though I don’t get much of that done these days).
4. Social-justice wise, I have really been dropping the ball lately, because I’ve been feeling overwhelmed with smaller everyday stuff (although a lot of that everyday stuff is a huge marker of how much privilege I have).
5. I’m from a small village about 500km north of Sydney. It’s a beautiful, peaceful area, and while I prefer to live in the city, if I don’t go home a couple of times a year, I start to feel too hemmed in.
When you said ‘No, really, it does,’ mel, I pictured a literal rocking book. That could be interesting.
Rawls. Oh, Rawls.
Xands, you… watercolour in class? I am so glad I know you.
Let me answer myself a little…
What’s going on for you today? – so far mostly going through my reader, writing this post, chatting with Beppie (hi Beppie!) and dealing with FWD admin. Will go ear breakfast soon. Um, eat.
How did you pick your screenname? – It’s my offline nickname and often my preferred name.
Squee Tennant! (I almost typed that in as my name. Tea-drinking closeted Tennant does that to me I guess. ;) )
Questions, what I can remember of ‘em: Arwyn is, y’know, my name. Yes, my parents were geeky Tolkein fans. Trufax: spelled with a Y, it’s a male name in Wales. Raising My Boychick just came to me, over a year ago, back when I was thinking that it would cool if someone would write about raising a presumably-male child — little knowing that, y’know, ’twasn’t a new idea. Oops.
Favorite book: Imma cheat, and say the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. It’s really ridiculous how much I love that series. Of course, my whole family over-identify with Miles, because 3/4 of us are bipolar (and the rest are partnered with us!). It’s total wish-fulfillment on our parts.
What else? Today I’m recovering from a migraine. I loathe them. I also got less than five hours’ sleep last night, which for me is Not Good. I’d skip class tonight, but there’s the possibility of body work, and the only thing I want more than sleep right now is my neck to get fixed.
Social justice: I’m still trying to figure out how and how much to integrate traditional activism in my life, since I wasn’t raised with it and didn’t get the college-based crash course. I’ve also been turning over in my head how to talk with a member of an oppressed group I’m not a member of (like a black American) who disagrees with commonly accepted anti-oppression (like anti-racist) thoughts and works. Er, if that makes sense? Like if I’m stuck in a room with Clarance Thomas talking about racism and how to combat it?
Ok, brain just isn’t working, I’m gonna hope that made some sort of sense and stop now.
Nice shindig, Chally, thanks for hosting! I’ll be off poking around your closests for a bit, looking for, er… My coat! Yea, that’s it. *wanders off, whistling the Doctor Who theme innocently*
Oh, I think the presumably-male child raising writing is new enough! I’ve also been turning over in my head how to talk with a member of an oppressed group I’m not a member of (like a black American) who disagrees with commonly accepted anti-oppression (like anti-racist) thoughts and works. Er, if that makes sense? Yeah, totally. I… have no idea. Because you can say ‘well, this is what many people of your group feel’ but then you’re just being… not nice. And stay away from my closets!!
I am not doing so well pain-wise today; it’s uber-rainy where I’m living! :(
What’s going on for you today?
Well, not sure if that’s today (which is done, for the most part) or tomorrow for me. Yet tonight I plan to watch some Merlin and maybe read a bit before I crash into sleep.
How did you pick your screenname?
I was going for a strong SF female portrayal to use, one that I could shorten if necessary. The Bene Gesserit are major players in Frank Herbert’s Dune, and their stance is somewhat problematic both in the diegesis of the story and externally, but they stand tall. “That Bene Gesserit witch” is an insulting term for one of the members of that group, and it rings quite well off the tongue, so I sort of went for reclaiming it.
Do you have any hobbies?
I knit! I also poke about in Photoshop, I do LJ-based RP, I rather like to cook if I have enough energy spoons.
What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
Not really knowing where to begin with being active instead of reactive. Or even reactive, really, other than working to change my attitude and language, that I’ve got a start on.
Where are you from and what do you like about home?
I’m from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, and…I really love frozen custard. A lot. It is the best thing ever, like if ice cream got reworked into brilliance. Also, I love using the term ‘bubbler’.
What’s your favourite book?
Too many to choose from. I’ve probably got about 10 to 20 favourites at any given time.
*gentle hugs for Anna*
What are you reading, Bene? I actualy ought to read Dune one day. Bad SF fan! I should try this frozen custard, too.
Speaking of which, it’s my birthday in a month. Any fun recipe suggestions? It looks like I’m having three birthday parties, because my life is like that.
ETA: Just got you out of the mod queue, Caitlin and Abby. Caitlin, that sounds like a very interesting paper. Abby, I know, it can be quite overwhelming… *hugs*.
Dune is initially hard to get into–it took me three tries over several years to get past the first fifty pages. But it ends up being quite a trip…if you can deal with the slightly out-there 60sness of it all, and that it’s got isms.
I just finished reading Gwyneth Jones’ latest novel, Spirit, which I’m a bit conflicted about. On the one hand, she has a lot to say about gender and relationships and all sorts of things, the story is quite good if a little bizarre in some bits. And on the other…having read some of the Bold as Love series, and some of her books as Ann Halam, her female characters really get some nasty things thrown at them. It may be comment on the fact that women have had very hard lives, still do, thanks to kyriarchy, but even so, it’s really painful and almost repetitive as a trope by now.
-fangirl squee-
Tennant: making me have a pleasant sexual identity crisis daily…
* What’s going on for you today?
Not much! Son comes home from school camp later on today; Husband away with work; Daughter at daycare and I have just completed my last paper for my Masters in Counselling so I am having a day off!
* How did you pick your screenname?
Bri is short for Briah which is a name I adopted for use in pagan circles but most people know me as Bri now.
* Do you have any hobbies?
Photography, reading, writing, blogging
* What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
The proposed gastric banding trial being inflicted on an Australian Aboriginal community (see my blog for my thoughts!)
* Where are you from and what do you like about home?
Rural Victoria in Australia. I love that I have the hills/mountains on one side, the ocean on the other yet the city is only 2 hours away.
* What’s your favourite book?
Too many to even begin to name! I love The Book Thief so let’s go with that for now : )
Side note…the above is one of my more favouritest pictures of David Tennant. I was about to get the oversized Tennant wall calendar a while back but Mr Bene does not like him and would have made fun of me.
Yes, Bene, it is often a bit much to read. I just think about stories like Tiptree’s (will she ever shut up about Tiptree?!) “With Delicate Mad Hands,” which was one of her favourites of her own stories. And how it’s a very powerful story, but a common criticism is that the heroine just goes through so much that you switch off. But the worst is when you get the feeling the writer is enjoying putting them through pain, which is not to say that’s what Jones or Tip do. And Mr Bene does not like Tennant?! Dump him and move back to Wisconsin!! (kidding)
belledame222: Have you seen The Chatterley Affair, that dramatization of the Lady Chatterley censorship trial? I thought it was unhot except for the bit where Tennant walks into the courtroom and his hair waves just a little *melts*.
bri, congrats on finishing that paper! You must feel fantastic! Heading over to your blog now.
I just want to share this hi-larious spam comment I’ve been hanging on to for two weeks:
To engage masculinities through the prism of feminist theory or to write feminist theory using masculinities as an analytic… Sex Video [link redacted]
OMG Chally that is the best spam EVER! I want that quality of sex spam on my blog! *jealous*
Tennant: making queer girls a little bit straighter and straight guys a little bit queerer…
Can’t really interact with anyone else (see answer to first question belowO, but as a lesbian, I do have to say that Tennant is cute, even hawt.
What’s going on for you today?
I’m trying desperately to keep up with my courses, including writing a 6 page paper tonight that’s due tomorrow since I spent the weekend mostly sleeping. I was recovering from being sick with a “flu-like” illness last week.
How did you pick your screenname?
What? Lucy? It’s my name! Oh, all right, Lucypaw then. It comes my cat obsession.
Do you have any hobbies?
Not anymore. Too busy with university. Nearest I get is belonging to the uni LGBTA and the feminist student group.
Where are you from and what do you like about home?
West Virginia in the US. I love the mountains, walking in the woods, and driving on the winding back roads. There are other things, but that’s what springs to mind.
What’s your favourite book?
I don’t really have a favourite book. I guess the nearest thing to a favourite book I have at the moment is Julia Serano’s “Whipping Girl” as it helps give a framework for discussions about trans womanhood. But, I’m sure it will be replaced at some point by another book I read.
caitlinate, i would read that blog post!
today i am at work, trying desperately to meet several deadlines. but i’m wearing one of my favourite scarfs (who am i kidding? they’re all my favourites) and i have last night’s leftover dinner (claypot noodles) for lunch later, and then i’m going out for dinner with some friends.
social justice wise, i’m struggling with how to verbalise stuff when i see it. i want to make so many blog posts, and i want to say so many things, so that i can inform people, but then i never feel brave enough, worried that people will call me wrong/misunderstand (see: my most recent post, where some people chose to focus on the wording rather than the intent).
and then i worry that alerting people is pointless anyway, given that monash study that proved that ‘awareness’ and ‘knowing why’ are almost the least influential in behaviour change (far less influential than ‘everyone else does it’ and ‘convenience’) :o(
and now i’m delurking!
•How did you pick your screenname?
It’s my name. :)
•What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
Not knowing how best to use my privileges (white, cis, middle class, American, abled, thin, young, etc. – basically everything but female and queer) to advance other oppressed groups, and feeling like I’m not doing enough.
•Where are you from and what do you like about home?
I live in Colorado, USA, right up against the Rocky Mountains, and it is beautiful here, especially in winter.
•What’s your favourite book?
If forced to choose, I’d probably say Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. As far as my actual favorite goes… eh, I don’t know. Too many choices!
(1) Never will sitting in a wardrobe with a cup of tea be the same again.
I have some questions for you, readers. Answer one, some or all.
(2) What’s going on for you today?
(3) How did you pick your screenname?
(4) Do you have any hobbies?
(5) What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
(6) Where are you from and what do you like about home?
(7) What’s your favourite book?
1) *squee* David Tennant does it too! I feel all validated in my wardrobe-sitting, tea-drinking habits now. :)
2) I’m trying to research a Mexican-American activist for a school project. I’m finding next to nothing (as in, nothing academically sound. Wikipedia has the most information I’ve been able to dig up), so I decided to check Google Reader for something interesting to read.
3) I’ve been using the screenname niemaodpowiedzi for 3 years this month, for my various nefarious purposes on the Interwebs. I chose it as I was beginning to reject my Christian spiritual roots, moving towards atheism/agnosticism. I was flipping through a Polish translation of the Gospel of Mark one time, and came across the word “odpowiedzi,” or answer. I then looked up the phrase “there’s no answer” as a bit of a rebuttal to the Christian theology I found so problematic: “nie ma odpowiedzi.” I strung the words together and here I am!
4) I do ceramics. Non-functional, hand-built sculptural pieces mainly, though I sometimes make things like teapots (how else would I encourage my wardrobe-sitting tea-drinking while watching David Tennant kick ass?). This past week I made a necklace shaped like Ronald Reagan’s head.
5) I’m having difficulty convincing myself that, no, people won’t hate me for calling them out on their problematic language in meatspace. A lot of this fear, I think, is based in my own issues with self-hatred and insecurity, and a bit of culture-shock that I actually have friends now and omg what if they take umbrage and when I say it like that I feel absolutely over-worried and if they really like me they’ll assuage my fears about losing people important to me but translating that to in-the-moment correction of anti-kyriarchical language is something I’m struggling with. *hi there, incredibly long stream of consciousness!*
6) Texas. I love the food. I can’t leave the state now, because where else would I get good food?
7) George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. Eliot delves into a lot of the religious stuff I still struggle with, while exploring a strong female protagonist with a lot of agency (while the choices Maggie is given are problematic from a modern feminist standpoint, I still find that the character has a lot of depth, and Eliot displays the problems with each choice rather coherently).
Ooh, The Doctor… I’ve come over all unnecessary.
What am I doing today? Dusting off my boot skates after seeing Whip It last night. I’ve been toying with joining the Sydney roller derby league for a while now, but I just don’t think I’m tough enough. I started tap dancing a few months ago after 33 years (and counting) of being unco, so maybe I can do anything. I remember my mum saying the scene in The Dark Crystal where Kira the girl gelfling flies was the defining moment of my generation – when Jen asks why she can and he can’t, she says of course he can’t fly, he’s a boy.
What am I reading? World War Z, an oral history of the zombie war, by Max Brooks. It’s great, and so much better than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which really just tricked me into reading P&P.
*sigh* Getting the distinct impression people aren’t reading the comment policy. *cough*niemaodpowiedziandArwyn*cough*
All the best with your paper, Lucy!
Verbalising your thoughts, especially for change, is quite hard, steph. If it helps, I think raising awareness is valuable, especially as that lays the groundwork for ‘everyone else does it’ and ‘convenience’. I’m glad you’ve decided to delurk, I’ve noticed you’ve been bookmarking posts on delicious and was wondering if/when you would comment.
Hi Audrey! I enjoyed the shorter version of Flowers for Algernon. I actually know a guy called Charlie Gordon.
Ronald Reagan’s head?? That’s, um, interesting!
Oh, was Whip It good? Maybe you can do it. :)
Regarding the Satin Peruvian: I see feeties! And maybe a nose.
Mmm…cake.
In honor of David Tennant, I just made tea. It’s organic licorice root tea, for all who are wondering. And why does that picture make me think of Harry Potter sitting under the Dursleys’ stairs? :-)
What’s going on for you today?
In my quest to avoid the game review I should be writing, I have cleaned the house, reading/commenting at FWD/Forward. I’ve been working on something I hope to submit there. (Is Tera blogging again? It’s a miracle!) I am also drinking tea.
How did you pick your screenname?
It’s my real name, although there is some element of choice behind it. The official spelling of my name is “Tara,” but many people mispronounced it “Tah-ra” when I was growing up. When I was 9, I got fed up with correcting people, so started spelling it phonetically. Though I did get the idea from a book of Pacman pun cartoons–there was a “Pterapactyl” picture–and almost did keep the P (Ptera). Which wouldn’t have been very phonetic at all. I haven’t changed my name legally (yet), so people still call me Tah-ra.
Do you have any hobbies?
Playing video games. I like turn-based RPGs that take 50+ hours to complete and have lots of text in them. I’m playing lots of Disgaea at the moment; I also love the Harvest Moon series wherein you run a farm (raise animals, grow crops, buy better equipment, etc.) My life’s ambition is to collect all of them. I just bought a PlayStation Portable Go, and have been playing lots of Rock Band: Unplugged very badly.
I like cartoons and scary movies. I love Spongebob Squarepants, The Big Bang Theory and Eastwick, though I think a soap opera that’s only on once a week is cruel and unusual punishment.
I enjoy reading, writing, drawing, and transcription.
What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
Speaking up when people say -ist and -phobic things. I don’t know what to say in the moment. I should make a list of things to say, such as “Please don’t use that word.” (There’s one!)
Where are you from and what do you like about home?
I’m from Nebraska, a state in the American Midwest. I like that Stephen King wrote several stories about it, including one featuring my hometown. I like our library, because I can get there myself and even find books for Really Cheap. Like the whole Dollanganger series by V.C. Andrews for $2.
What’s your favourite book?
Nobody Nowhere, by Donna Williams. Aside from showing me just how much of the conventional “wisdom” about autistic people was wrong, it helped me start thinking about how I thought, which has been an important survival skill for me.
Oh, dear. This was epic.
Meeps! *looks abashed* Sorry Chally.
(I am refraining from saying what I was refraining to say to this, because I don’t want to get kicked out. I quite like it here, there’s refreshments, and adorable critters with squee-worthy hair. Also guinea pigs.)
That was quite epic, Tera. It’s funny, because here Taras complain about the opposite! Now I’m going to keep thinking of your name with a midwestern accent. :)
That’s okay, Arwyn, it’s a bit of an unusual request. You won’t get kicked out! Hahaha, took me a minute to get that ‘adorable critters with squee-worthy hair’ wasn’t referring to the guinea pig.
*blush* Apologies.
You’re fine, don’t worry about it.
Um. Now things are all awkward. Here, have some toast, everyone.
What’s going on for you today?
Playing catch-up, after a week in Queensland visiting my father. Trying to sort out the social calendar – it looks like a busy week ahead, what with baby showers, naming days, playdates, seeing old friends, and brunch with my Mum before she leaves the country for three years.
How did you pick your screenname?
It started as a shorthand form of a goddess I did a lot of work with, and then I decided to adopt it myself, and now everybody offline excepting my very oldest friends and family call me Aphie.
Do you have any hobbies?
I bellydance, sew, embroider (both with thread and beads – bellydance costumes, natch), scrapbook, read voraciously, take photographs, fiddle with Photoshop and play Sims sometimes.
What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
Convincing myself that my voice counts, what I have to say is important. balancing my heart and passion for social justice with facts and figures (I read the latter, but fall down on saving the links/referencing correctly and have been slapped down for it, previously). Sharing my causes with my friends and family without being didactic, being strong enough to tell them when I think they’re wrong, figuring out a way to live with them being up to their eyeballs in privilege and not seeing it without being constantly horrified, discouraged and/or disgusted.
Where are you from and what do you like about home?
A little city south of Sydney. I’ve lived in many, many places but this place really feels like “home”; the seasons and land here really resonate within me. This is important to me, and my spirituality.
What’s your favourite book?
I love the journals of Anais Nin. So much of what she says resonates with me, and I find the woman herself fascinating. It’s also amazing to read biographers’ work alongside her journals; pretty much everyone but Anais agrees she took enormous liberties with events and what people said when recounting things, it intrigues me to try to tease apart what she says and what others say.
I certainly don’t mind being called on breaking comment policy (I appreciate it a lot, actually) and I definitely don’t want you to think I don’t respect the rules of commenting on this blog.
Here, have some Master: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yxSFbjY3GQ
And, from the Gospel of Tennant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjv3cpeHgAs
Wheeee! Another belly dancer! I’m just a dabbler, but I love it. And I sincerely wish I could sew and embroider – the one attempt I made at decorating my own skirt results in me getting the sequins all tangled up in one another every time I wear it!
Niemaodpowiedzi, thank you so much for that Blackpool link. What kind of Tennant-free rock have I been living under?
Glad to be seeing you back at your computer, Aphie. :)
Thanks so so much for the links, niemaodpowiedzi! Aww, you’re so polite. Respect, it is mutual. :)
Ariane, there’s this one apron that three generations of women in my family worked on. I finished it when I was eight. Um, not that it’s a particularly intricate embroidery job to take so long, we just kept leaving it off. Belly dancing sounds fun, maybe I should give it a go…
newswithnipples, you’ve been living without Tennant?! There there, you’re okay now.
No, I haven’t been living without Tennant – thank goodness – I’d just never seen Blackpool. I’m not very good at watching things on tv. Looks like I’ve just found what dvds I’ll be watching after season two of Mad Men.
I’m taking that as a request for more Blackpool links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgALLxgR4g (why, yes, that is the guy from the 2008 Christmas special of Doctor Who)
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBmE_QPdxw
I’m by no means a paid professional, but I’ve been dancing for a decade this year (on and off – life keeps getting in the way!) and have done local fetes and the like, which means I had to have costumes – which is how I started sewing. Made by others, those things cost SO MUCH MONEY. My goodness.
I love bellydancing. My secret dream is to one day contribute to my living by it (probably teaching). Except now I’ve just broadcast that on the internet, so it’s not so secret, neh?
I think I’m a bit late to this but I have to say that is the best/cutest pic of Tennant ever. And that’s saying something. Also, (possibly sickening TMI) he looks a little like an older version of the Smoo in it (as he does quite often). Do you think I can train the Smoo to speak with a Scottish accent? He has Scottish ancestry so it wouldn’t be *total* appropriation (well it would but I can dream).
Um, today I’m trying to write but mostly fielding jerks who insist on polluting the world with their jerkness or accusing me or my staff of vague shadowy things that I’m either not smart enough or not enough of a giant douche to understand. That was the longest sentence in the world. Did you fall asleep halfway through it?
My screenname came to me on a rare optimistic day when I thought everything would work out for the best. It occasionally seems like a cruel joke to me now, but eh.
Social justice wise I’m struggling with feeling overwhelmed and uncertain. I *feel* arguments that other people can come up with so succinctly and put out there and I don’t feel I have the studied background to back up my claims. I just have to go with my gut which often leads to me making errors. Oh, and did you notice how much *injustice* there is at the mo? Even my mum put this anti-immigrant spiel on facebook today. I call it out when I can but I’m really losing my sense of humour over it so I’m becoming this annoying voice of “political correctness” that just won’t go away. I’m in a bit of a despairing place at the moment. Sorry for depressing you all.
[News with Nipples: you've been living in a Tennant free world?!!! This is awful. Simply awful. If there's anything I can do, anything at all, don't hesitate to ask ;)]
Oh, I just read your second comment News with Nipples. I am very relieved.
I just have to say I am so excited for the RSC Hamlet to be on the Beeb and on DVD here. SO EXCITED. Massive intersectionality of geeky brilliance!
My Not Migraine cleared up for about eight solid hours, allowing me to do some writing. Yay! The Kid tested for her blue belt in Tae Kwon Do, but forgot to tell me that she was doing it today, so I didn’t charge the battery, and I sat outside the class (because the Not Migraine was back, and the class is usually noisy), so I missed it, and now I feel like the Worst Parent Evah.
My screen name is the Chinese name I was given when I learned Chinese in California. It was actually based off of my then married name, which I am not longer affiliated with, but this name is mine, I earned it, and I kept it. It feels like it should be mine, so it is the only thing that I got out of that marriage that I kept, and in my mind they aren’t really associated. I also like that b/c it is an Asian name, the given name, like my own meatworld name, is somewhat androgynous. Makes me feel more mysterious.
I have a million hobbies. I like to cook. I dabble in baking, and I kind of rock at both. I love to throw big dinner or brunch parties for people (when I have the spoons to do so, but usually wind up sitting on the couch while everyone enjoys the food). I love photography and want to become a bit of an amateur photographer, so that I can be better at another one of my favorite hobbies, scrapbooking. I also make cards, and other things. I pretty much will glue paper and glittery shit to anything that will sit still long enough, and if I have your address something I make might wind up in your post box. I also like to sew, crochet, and many other things where I make stuff w/ my hands. I used to draw and paint and use pastels, but I haven’t in forever. I also used to play music…a little of everything…but that is a heartbreaking story for another time…Oh, and write.
Language. I need to use the language in meatworld that I demand in bloglandia.
I am from Almost Canada, Michigan, US. My accent will tell you so. I use words like “hoser”, and “eh”, and “beauty”, and can appreciate a good moose, and am aware that they all speak Quebequois or whatever. I love my hometown…I just do, and I can’t explain why…but I feel so…calm there.
That is not a fair question. I fall a little in love with everything that I read and get a little too emotionally invested in the characters. Oh! I am writing a novel, too! I signed up for NaNoWriMo.
There, I participated!
* What’s going on for you today?
I’ve spent the day doing beading with a friend. Well, I got all the beads out anyway and played with them, not a great deal of actual beading happened. Then I took my daughter to her singing lesson and had the car die on the way back home.
* How did you pick your screenname?
It’s my nickname from childhood, my dad still uses it a bit and now my kids have taken to calling me by it.
* Do you have any hobbies?
I do cross-stitch, lampwork glass bead making and make beaded jewellery and because of historical reenactment I do sewing under duress, tablet weaving, archery, viking wire weaving, and going camping under ludicrous conditions.
* Where are you from and what do you like about home?
I grew up one suburb away from where I now live in northern Sydney, I like home ’cause it’s nice and close to
the babysittermy Mum.* What’s your favourite book?
Don’t have one particular favourite and if I started listing I’d be here for hours. My current read however is Nicolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett and there’s a new Pratchett waiting for me at Infinitas bookshop so that’ll be next once I make my way out to Parramatta…when my car is fixed *sigh*
TENNANT FOR ALL!
You’re not too late, shiny! I think training the Smoo to talk Scottish would be an excellent thing.
Glittah!! You will recieve my brand spanking new mailing address hopefully soon. All the best with your novel, OYD.
That is fun with your car, mims. Speaking of books, I will return yours to you on Saturday, thanks for letting me borrow them!
•What’s going on for you today?
Trying to sort all the stuff I’ve spent the last 6 months ignoring, reading and writing, tidying up thesis.
•How did you pick your screenname?
I liked it.
•Do you have any hobbies?
Reading, writing, sticking my head in the sand at every opportunity. Just taken up weight-training.
•What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
Mainly third world issues and the assumption that what fits the affluent west will fit everywhere.
•Where are you from and what do you like about home?
Wales. I live near the sea.
•What’s your favourite book?
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith.
Sorry, but Tennant does not move me (although the tea would be tempting). I’ll stick with my continuing adoration of Amanda Palmer.
It’s nice to see you here, leasbreda. I may be doing the Dresden Dolls for Music Monday at some stage, if that helps at all!
What’s going on for you today?
My partner is at work, my son is with his dad and I have the day to myself – but I’m sick and procrastinating over the housework.
How did you pick your screenname?
My screen name is Ghostlove and I’ve had it for about four or five years… back then, Ghost Love Score by Nightwish was my favourite song so it comes from that.
Do you have any hobbies?
Yeah – blogging, writing poetry, painting/drawing when I get time, reading, running, photography. Nothing exciting like hang gliding or anything. :P
What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
Bringing the fight away from the internet and into real life. I used to run the local feminist group but it was taken away from me by other members when my mental illness flared up earlier this year, and I have certain physical limitations which are hampering my progress.
Where are you from and what do you like about home?
I’m from Southsea, a town in the city of Portsmouth on the south coast of England. It’s a seaside town and Portsmouth is basically the UK’s most important Naval port. I was born here, even. I like everything about it – there are some rough areas of Portsmouth but Southsea is very nice. I mostly like being beside the sea. I always say that if I get more than ten miles inland I start to feel suffocated.
What’s your favourite book?
I have so many favourites! Wuthering Heights, Sophie’s World, The Handmaid’s Tale, A Thousand Splendid Suns… actually my top favourite isn’t a book but a set of books; Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. There is no better universe than the Discworld universe.
Sorry, but Tennant does not move me.
Oh, good, I’m not the only one! But I find the Tennant love sort of adorable, if that makes any sense.
*waves in the direction of Southsea*
Audrey, it’s quite widespread, isn’t it??
Ooh, Anji – our Pratchett are the most well-thumbed books in this house! The Tiny tyrant is learning all about how cows go ‘sizzle’. ;)
WHAT DO I WIN???
A RUBBER DUCK!!!
(If anyone was wondering, because OYD got the fiftieth comment.)
* What’s going on for you today?
work and then getting my divorce papers notarized so I can finally file! :D
* How did you pick your screenname?
“readheadgirl” cuz I’m a redhead who loves to read
* Do you have any hobbies?
making art and writing, reading, dancing and playing with my crazy cats
* What are you having a hard time with social justice-wise?
that we’re still fighting the same battles hundreds and thousands of other women have been fighting for decades :(
* Where are you from and what do you like about home?
I’m from KCMO and I like that it has 4 seasons and is full of culture you would never expect from a place in the midwest
* What’s your favourite book?
Watership Down by Richard Adams
* Today I hope to get a lot accomplished. I need to go to a Halloween shop for some props in a feminist photoshoot, hopefully watching where the wild things are and enjoying some time to myself.
* My screen name is a-funny-bunny and it’s the title of my favorite song from The Pillows. Plus it’s very inspiring to me.
* I love art, cooking, reading, digesting my life and how it’s so interconnected to the lives of others, sewing, and listening to music.
* Just the control of state ran governments. The way that police can oppress citizens when they over-exaggerate the situation. Not everyone is as violent as the people you see on TV. Please learn this America.
* I consider myself not from one particular place. In a way I consider myself to be a modern-day immigrant. But so far my favorite thing about places i’ve lived in all deal with landforms.
* My favorite book is 100 years of solitude.
Erm, questions… not very good at answering them at the moment.
But David Tennant. Drinking tea. In a cupboard.
*swoon*