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[metaphortunate]

• Mr. E got me Schweddy Balls! Mmm, boycotted ice cream is the best ice cream.
  
  
• Overnight this kid has become a tiny chatterbox. It's still the pre-babbling stage, but he is working it. It's adorable. He's adorable.
  
  
• One of my smart flisters just made an interesting but sadly locked post about narratives of desire, and the way that longing and desire are always projected onto girls. You know how it is: could be Beatrice (Dante's or Lemony Snicket's, take your pick) or the latest Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but that unfulfillable existential longing always gets incarnated in girls in the Official Media.
  
  But! We are not bound by that around here! We, my friends, we have fanfic! If there is one thing slash writers have down, it is the concept of men as objects of desire! Help me come up with some recs? Stories about the desirability of men, desiring men, why we desire them, what we desire about them, and how that yearning gets fulfilled - or not?
  
  
• If you haven't kept up with the del.icio.us fuckup and what's been going on with Pinboard, jedusaur has been pulling together some amazing stuff.
  
  
• I am back at work! It is weird. I miss the baby greatly. OTOH, it is strangely easier to think when he is not around. I like feeling competent. I like drafting! I do not like some of the things that have been going on in my absence due to the fact that we hired new people and then apparently did not give them nearly enough instruction in the company standards. *facepalm* Project for myself: figure out if I have enough power to FIX SHIT, and if not, acquire it somehow.
  
  
• Have you read the last book in the Ender's Game series? Not like snarp read it, you haven't.