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• 22:35 Annie!! @tazachocolate is on Twitter!!!! (If she weren't married to me, she'd be married to them.) #
• 22:36 Why can't corporations marry people if they have corporate personhood? This sounds like a question for @grownuptown! #
• 22:39 @verhext Do they have gluten-free cupcakes? #
• 22:48 I just got up to 6,249 in #DoodleJump!!! Beat that! itunes.com/app/DoodleJump #
• 08:17 Tegan and Sara get 5 redemption points(tm) each b/c wikipedia sez they covered "Do they know it's Christmas" on an album called "Fucked Up"! #

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I don't know if Lynn's promoting her visit with Nancy Beiman needs its own thread but I'm putting it up just in case. That's because it occurs to me that with her supposedly sharing Lynn's need to blame all the evil in the world on evil men, we might be looking at the top-notch animator that was supposed to take over a few years ago. (I don't see her as being a misandrist as such; to me, it looks as if she's simply ticked off by the Smurfette effect.)

i feel so small...
reaching out for some comfort, haunted by the thoughts about what happened, feeling so bruised...
only last week we were walking around hand in hand beliving in our love.
i guess impolsive people can make you crazy. it's like my heart has been trampled.

i am tired of analyzing. thinking about the wrong he's done and the mess in his life.
it's so confusing.

wondering wether he will show up at my door all of a sudden...
he's charming and difficult and sick.
the worst combination... cant stand the pattern that is similar to the way my father used to be.

i am not sure i am worthy of being treated right.
tired of my victimhood mentality.

tomorrow is my birthday. i know my life must mean a lot more than this.
it just hurts. and i am angry at god and at myself and him...
i hate my anger. i hate the abuse. i am disgusted.
i wished for a softer ending for this relationship, because we cared for each other. but it was sharp and demeaning.
i don't want to be manipulated like that anymore...

i will be 36 tomorrow.
i schadualed a meeting with my therapist tomorrow. not sure i feel like digging into the dirt on this day too... but who knows, i may find diamonds...

i will buy myself a book as a gift and then make food and cake for my family who is coming over for dinner.
i wasn't sure about that either because it's not easy with them.. i hope it will be ok. and then my ex won't be there and i will miss him despite the clash...

complicated feelings...

thanks for listening to my ramble.
may

We don't like go the the Cinema a big lot (but the Cinema with the big stripy legs sticking out of it in Brighton does Autism friendly screenings sometimes and we'd like to go to them more). So i don't like know a big lot of films to choose a favourite from. We like Cinema pop-corn though.
I like the Pirates of the Caribbean films becos they have more of the pirates being cool than they do of the soppy romance (even less soppy romance would be better).
And i like musicals becos everyone sings about what they are thinking and feeling rather than making you have to try and guess from like how they move their face or something else weird like that. I wish real life was more like that. I like guys and Dolls a big lot becos even though it's alike got soppy romance in the middle of it it's got interestingly structured songs and lots of cool bits and funny bits too.

We did that not sleeping almost all of the night and then sleeping all morning thing. When we did get to sleep we had this really long dream about trying to write an essay about Elizabethan technology in French (no, i don't like know why either) and losing some of the pages under the bed. Now we feel all weird.

All are invited to participate in the 9th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride. The event will take place from 2:30 - 3:00 PM on Sunday January 10.

REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION:

1) Willing to take pants off on subway
2) Able to keep a straight face about it
3) At least $5 for the BART/MUNI rides and some extra for bar/etc.
(or a fast past)

If you are unfamiliar with the No Pants Subway Ride, read the history here:
http://improveverywhere.com/missions/the-no-pants-subway-ride/

THE PLAN:

Pittsburg/Bay Point train, times below.

Go to the station of your choice, before the scheduled train arrives. If you can, arrive with no pants (if you are bringing pants for later, have them in a bag or otherwise concealed; if you need to, discreetly take your pants off in the station before getting on the train). Then get on the train when it arrives. Act casual. Don’t take pictures, if you can help it. Try not to notice the other pantsless people, unless someone points them out to you. If asked, pretend you have no idea why everyone else has no pants. See the improv everywhere page if you need ideas on why /you’re/ not wearing pants.

This is the new revised schedule; if you plan on boarding from the other stations that are suggested, PLEASE DO. The more spread out we are the better.

1:47 San Bruno
1:51 SSF
1:54 Colma
1:58 Daly City
2:01 Balboa Park -Last names that start with A-H
2:04 Glen Park
2:07 24th & mission - Last names that start with I-P
2:09 16th & mission
2:11 Civic Center - last names that start with Q-Z
2:13 Powell
2:14 Montgomery
2:16 Embarcadero - we all exit

The main stop everyone boarded on was @ 16th and mission but I’d like to have it more spread out this year so everyone isn’t getting on at the same stop. If some could disperse to 24th and mission that would be great. (the more spread out we are the better)

Remember that you might want to bring pants for later in case it does get cold. The forecast is a high of 58 so we are looking good so far.
I’ll update this more this week. Thanks and hope to see everyone in their best attire.

THESE INSTRUCTION ARE FOR EAST BAY ONLY DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE ON THE SF BAY SIDE
EAST BAYERS
You are very important too, so make sure you come. It would be great if you would arrive on this train or around 2:16 so the confusion of both trains in the station emptying out with pants-less passengers.

1:27 Concord
1:32 Pleasant Hill
1:35 Walnut Creek
1:39 Layafette
1:44 Orinda
1:50 Rockridge
1:55 McAuthur
1:58 19th & Oakland
1:59 12th & Oakland
2:03 West Oakland
2:11 Embarcadero< exit here
Our train will arrive a couple minutes later so just wait for us.

Since I have a fair idea that Lynn might simply reprint the next strip in this sequence, I'd like to point out how ludicrous this whole thing is. As all of you said yesterday, this is not a way to look cool; what it is is a way to foolishly land oneself in trouble and risk burning one's hands.

Panel 1: As Mike lights whatever he put in the pipe, Lawrence tells him "I don't like this, Michael; it's not right."

Panel 2: A red-faced, gasping Mike says "Your (koff) mom's in the house; she can't even see what we're doing."

Panel 3: Having passed Lawrence the pipe, Mike makes the palms-out gesture and tells him "Believe me, Lawrence; she'll never know."

Panel 4: Connie is gobsmacked because there's a cloud of smoke over her back fence.

Summary: While it's obvious that this was simply a lame way to both remind us that Mike is a budding hooligan and to get the pipe in Connie's hands, let us pause and remember that Lynn did get one thing right: children never quite seem to pick up on the fact that their parents are smarter than they look. And talk. And act. And dress. And our best test scores indicate.

Anyone else get the feeling that Francie was/is only a plot device?

Yesterday I posted the following tweets...

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To be honest, I like Roommate; he is a pretty mellow dude who lets me mess around on his game console pretty much at will.  He just . . . doesn't do anything.  ( Oh, the immovable object. )

• 12:23 There is only one word fit to describe the staffing situation at work, and that word is "clusterfuck". #

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I hacked the ljdump Python script someone else wrote to make an untagged entries list exporter:

http://code.google.com/p/ljuntagged/downloads/list

I tested it on Livejournal and Dreamwidth, and it seems to work, so hooray.  It mmmay work on other LJesque sites, but I don't have accounts on those, so...

If you have input on this, feel free to provide input.  I'm very new to Python, so I'm sure I missed something.

Yay!

we don't like sing a whole lot anymore. We used to sing pretty much all he time when we did church stuff. I miss the singing but it doesn't seem to happen so much outside of church and it's not like three are like non-church-hymn-books to read and get all caught up in.
But prolly my most favourite song of the ones we do sing ow is he morning song we made for ~2 it's like
"God Morning, Good morning,
Good Morning [#2's RealName] Good Morning"
to he tune of the Exemplum Song from the first series of "Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better"

There's like just enuff time left to say Happy Birthday to omangel

Which also means it's the birthday of this journal. And i've been thinking for a while that i don't like write here enough. It's mostly becos of ludy using up more and more of the computer time. So i'm like determined to get my share and i'm going to do this 30 days meme to make sure.
I might not do it every day becos three's always things and stuff but i'm going to try and get it done over the next couple of months. Is copied from some people who are on ludy's freidslist.

Day 01 - Your favourite song
Day 02 - Your favourite film
Day 03 - Your favourite television programme
Day 04 - Your favourite book
Day 05 - Your favourite quote
Day 06 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 - A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - A fanfic
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - This month, in great detail
Day 28 - This year, in great detail
Day 29 - Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - Whatever tickles your fancy

I saw this photo and sadly thought the guy could be Anthony. If you imagine the poor bride as Liz, it would be what Anthony was thinking on his wedding day, his first wedding day of course.

The David Letterman show on the CBS network has insulted Amanda Simpson, a trans woman who was recently appointed to the U.S. Commerce Department by the Obama administration. In the clip below David Letterman announces the news, followed by a guest on his show who breaks out in shock that "Amanda used to be a dude" the man is disgusted and outraged and runs off stage, the segment insinuates the man had some sort of relationship with Simpson and reinforces the sentiment that being transgender is somehow disgusting, misleading, and abnormal.

The video clip, other remarks by Letterman on LGBT issues and ways to contact the show are available below:
http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2010/01/david-letterman-show-promotes-trans.html

http://nytimes.com/2010/01/06/us/06gender.html

US Job Site Bans Bias Over Gender Identity

By Brian Knowlton
Published: January 5, 2010

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity.

The protection is expected to apply to the small Transgender population — people who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — and it merely formalises what had been increasingly unchallenged government practice over several years.

But civil liberties and gender rights groups welcomed it on Tuesday as the clearest statement yet by the Obama administration that such discrimination in the federal workplace would not be accepted.

Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Centre for Transgender Equality, said, “The largest employer in the country is doing what all the other large employers in the country are doing, so that’s really great news.”

But the new standard brought instant criticism from cultural conservatives.

“We at the Family Research Council oppose including gender identity as a category of protection,” said Peter S. Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies.

Mr Sprigg said his group believed that what it calls “gender identity disorder” should be “treated with therapy to help people be comfortable with their biological sex rather than affirming and celebrating and protecting those who want to deny their biological sex.”

When the administration foreshadowed the change back in June, it was thought the guidelines would be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors. Their inclusion instead in the equal-employment opportunity notices on http://usajobs.gov/ , the federal jobs site, was viewed as even more significant.

“This is frankly a bigger deal,” said Christopher E. Anders, senior legislative counsel for the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Here's another Changes of Support. This edition covers until the end of December. Entries already posted this month will be in the next edition.

• FAQs on LJ Talk and subscriptions were updated. A new FAQ on the Inbox and private messages was created. (link)

News posts:

• The ten year anthology was released; Ban user everywhere was released.(link)
• Notifications were fixed after the snowflake v-gift stopped being available for free. (link)
• My Guests and My Stats were unveiled. (link)
• Various fixes to the holiday promotion, My Guests, and the Rich Text Editor were made. (link)

On a cheerful note, a very Happy New Year to you all! May be it full of luck and love and joy, and endlessly better than the horror that was 2009. I don't know about you, but I feel better already!