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Life

I thought I was on the mend, but I had to come home dizzy from work today. It was still too soon after the surgery. I hope I'm not coming down with a fever (my doctor was worried).

Politics

I flew off the handle yesterday when I discovered that hole in the government records. Turns out it's not something Harper's been plotting, but a procedural void. All four parties are responsible -- I don't think they even realize that their votes aren't being recorded in some circumstances.

I'm going to present an emergency motion to the NDP's convention in September. This procedural hole is fairly easy to fix, as soon as politicians notice the hole is there.

Even if Harper isn't responsible for the hole in the records, with his attacks on the press right now, we need accurate government records to keep track of what all the parties are doing. This is the worst time to have gaps in the records, and so far there's been a gap for every single vote this year on a government bill.

General Geekery

Everyone who's ever seen Neon Genesis Evangelion is actually required to go here. Yes, that's the law. I checked.

I'd issue a spoiler warning for everyone elese, but I think they'd all just be lost.

I love Evangelion. But it is really pretentious. I think I'd hate it as a book. Too James Joyce.

Maybe if Finnegan's Wake was done as an anime, it would be more enjoyable. If Joyce had giant cyborgs, badly-done quantum mechanics, and homoerotic subtext, I'd like him more.

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Steps back and listens to the show, because I have no idea who these people are or these series are about ^_^

That's good, because then the massive spoilering-ness we have committed here doesn't mean anything :P

:p

Without a context, it's all going in one eye and out the other.

Glad we're livening up your day! I have this unhealthy tendency to sit down and psychoanalyze people who do not actually exist. Ordinarily I keep it to myself, but occasionally I find someone like-minded and, well... if I don't clear out my Trillian logs periodically I wind up scratching my head and wondering where that 75MB of disk space went to. Really.

I am entertained and a little bit scared to note that if you Google for 'Yumemisama' most of my fanfic is still floating around out there in intarweb-land. It'll probably also hit some of my miscellaneous contributions to the web, like helping N-chan with a small bit of her Please Save My Earth opus, and writing up an etymological explanation of the term 'yaoi' for CFAN that really ought to have been a quarter the size, but if you'll notice, I'm not very good at shutting up. ^^;;; So far as I know, I'm still the only Yumemisama (and the variants YumemiSama and Yumemi-sama) that comes up in English. I think I'm occasionally credited as Yumemichan, but I'm less sure about being the only one of those.

I risk hideous embarrassment by telling you all this, because I haven't released any fanfic into the wild for a couple of years now, and if I read it back over I would probably cringe and die. I am not claiming to be a better author nowadays -- just better at recognizing bad ones. ^^;;;

"Glad we're livening up your day! I have this unhealthy tendency to sit down and psychoanalyze people who do not actually exist."

I'm an English major. If I do become a professor, I'll be doing that for a living ^_^

And I have quite a few friends who write fanfics of various sorts.

My BA is in sociology. Loved getting it, but it's totally useless for doing things like, oh, feeding myself. My minors were Japanese and linguistics, which are likewise completely useless for getting a job in the American Southwest. I'd do better if my Spanish didn't suck.

Current BS program is Electronic Media, which will in theory qualify me to be a button-pressing monkey for a television or radio station/production facility, thus meaning I can eat when I get into grad school.

My grand life plan is to stay at a university until they quit charging me to be here and start paying me instead. I was actually looking at school in Montréal at one point, on the basis that my country has actually been embarrassing me more than my family has, these past few years, and I speak pretty reasonable Canadian French, so I wouldn't, you know, die. I'm not sure I have job skills the Canadian government would like, however, which means I don't have any idea of my odds of getting the boot once I have a PhD. I loathe moving and I would hate to have to put down on my résumé something like, "Was asked to leave the country as they already had a surfeit of smartasses."