So you know those journals that have an icon like this:



Except you can see posts underneath? This is one of them. Impersonal stuff is public, real life stuff is locked.

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EVERYONE is answering this one, and, actually I liked the '90s, when I was a teenager for real. There was still a little alternative edge to culture -- everything hadn't been absorbed into this big mash to be spoon-fed to us. There were things like Riot Grrl and zines that you had to seek out. And, before the Lewinsky mess, Clinton seemed really cool as a president. We were at peace, the economy was good, and gender roles were expanding. (Though not as much as they have even now.) And I could see the Internet being born as a cultural force! Not having the Internet is a big strike against ye olden days for me, sadly enough.

I might make myself just a few years older --like, say, 16 instead of 14 in 1992 -- so I could have seen a couple concerts I missed out of youth and lameness, but for the most part? Being born in 1978 is just fine with me.

Yeah, I got sucked in again this season. Sorry, "cycle."

( Wanna be on top? )

( Which I am inflicting on you, but behind a cut. )I woke up, for real this time.

At 4:30. Couldn't get back to sleep for the life of me.

I just looked Jen up on Facebook -- I haven't thought about her in years -- but her last name is pretty common, none of the full profiles were viewable, and finding a Jen my age based on a tiny profile picture is very needle-in-a-haystack.

What we served my daughter for dinner last night: Peruvian Rotisserie chicken, tomato-cucumber-onion salad, french fries.

What she ate: Ketchup, several slices of onion, two bites of one french fry before she decided to just use it as a spoon to eat the ketchup with, one slice of tomato, and all of the mayonnaisey sauce in the small condiment container that came with the chicken. (We could not pry it away from her, and, well, she was happy.)

The toddler diet looks less like a humor piece every day.

July 11, 2002, so it's been a while! It was just a standard introductory post with lots of links.

LJ posted a sentence fragment instead of my entry.

LJ should die.

Anyhow -- I fail at keeping up with my f'list lately, but I miss you all and hope to get back to being in touch soonish.

Also, my shoulder hurts. Again.

Just wanted to link to a neat picspam of "Chuck" Behind the Scenes shots. I don't wanna mess up her bandwidth by hotlinking, so I'll just say this is possibly my favorite shot of Zachary Levi ever.

I am good, by the way. Work is trying to kill me, but I think I'll get by.

I'm one of the many, many people who has been trying to ignore the RaceFail discussion on the general theory that big Internet arguments are stupid and the Internet should be used for more important things, like RPGs and LOLCats. (Note to the slow: That was sarcasm. But I do try to avoid wank these days.) Plus, I couldn't even tell what it was about -- it seemed to have turned into one of those arguments that's so far removed from the source that at this point people are arguing about arguing.

ANYHOW, a few things I've been linked to today gave me at least a partial understanding. I really loved dolphin__girl's post on Yelling Class, for one, and mpoetess just posted a good summary without links.

Beyond that, I know white privilege exists, I know being colorblind is a noble goal but the wrong one, and I am going to try to be more conscious about reading/watching media produced by people of color. I'm not sure what else I can say; I think my job, really, is to sit down, shut up, and try to listen.

Go vote, people.