felis_ultharus

This has been a good week.

The parade was great last Sunday. We had trouble with the car, so we reverted to a more primitive state, peeled montrealais's marvellous signs from the truck, and marched carless as our ancient ancestors would have done in their Pride Parades.

A slow-moving, gas-guzzling automobile is a poor symbol of an environmentalist political party anyway. The hybrid car we had one year was small, but it was cute and quiet and less toxic.

Today, we're tabling all day for community day. Tonight it's the Outgames closing ceremonies -- the only part of the Outgames I've been able to attend. Then it's jenjoou's housewarming party. Tomorrow it's tabling again.

Somewhere in all this, I have to finish Ben Jonson's Volpone. I'm still trying to figure out if Androgyno the Hermaphrodite is meant to be physically a hermaphrodite, or a homosexual (which meaning was more common at the time).

Jonson was also the guy who introduced the word "tribade" -- meaning "lesbian" -- into the English language (hence, "tribadism"). So this seems to have been a favourite subject of his.