• May 5th – Tiger Beatdown › Shut Your Head Gash: A Polite Defense of Women’s Music – Can I get a “Hell Yeah”!?
• May 5th – THEORY FLASH! Coco Fusco, “Who’s Doin’ the Twist?” in English Is Broken Here (1995) « threadbared – Fusco also tackles the divide that assigns creativity to acts of appropriation of “exotic” or “other” cultural forms performed by privileged persons, and simultaneously decries as derivative those acts of parody, recycling, creolization, and adaptation of imposed cultural forms performed by non-privileged persons. In this troubling formulation, she argues, the privileged person is granted a sense of self-making or creative agency, while the non-privileged person is either a mimic or tragically “unnatural” and “inauthentic.” - I add this rather long quote from the article because I think the whole thing has some interesting ramifcations to some of the current conversation sparked by Diana Gabledon about FanFic.
• May 5th – Midweek Media – Mitchell and Webb Look at Commercials – If only those new kotex ads were this smart.
• May 5th – : Rules For The Masses : (A Kon Convention Special) Foamy The Squirrel – A Flash back to the past, and good advice for some.
• May 4th – Photo – awesome!! All moms should have a Hitachi magic wand and a large tv to watch their porn on.
• May 4th – Roman Polanski can remain silent no more. Anybody got a gag? – What she said!

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ADD meds seem to be working somewhat – I do wish I could find a different head-doc that would be easier to talk to about what efficacy I am actually getting. Right now it is quite clear that she isn’t actually listening to me (Evan sat in on the last meeting and concurred), while constantly suggesting that she will stop prescribing, even when we have found something that gives me some sort of useful effect. I am trying to figure out the best way to address this, it has already been clear to me that she doesn’t like being contradicted, or approached about things that are less than on-topic. The bonus is that I don’t have to see her again for 2 months now that she likes the results she thinks I am getting from what I am on.

Wiscon was AWESOME!! I will definitely be going again and I am hoping S.B. and I maybe can get it together to throw a party.  Its memorial day weekend, and if I haven’t already encouraged you to come, expect it next time I see you – yeah you – all of you

My garden is mostly coming along, I am bit behind in a few areas and might be a loser on squash and cucumber this year which would be a bummer. But so far carrots, beets and leafy vegs look good. I think the chilly weather is slowing down the tomatoes, but they look healthy so I am keeping up hope. I have some baby beans and peas that need to get trellised before they get much bigger and I am crossing my fingers that they continue to flourish. In the non-veg world I have a serious amount of weeding to do – Hey S.B. we should look at a calendar and get some plans going!! I have been sucky at pictures lately – but I’ll work at getting some up.

Hosted a “un-Tea” with J.F. and M.G. and had a blast. For those who are curious a “Un-Tea” is a tea like gathering with cute sammiches and little finger foods etc – hosted by people who largely don’t drink tea. We had some tea for the die-hards, but also had lemonade, sangria, and a variety of fizzy juice things. I hope all the attendees has as good of a time as we had throwing it, and an extra thanks to the folks who contributed food items. I can’t wait to try it again …

House is a huge pit, and its been hard to motivate to get it cleaner. I had to do some cleaning to dig out the appliances to make the food for the tea party. I hate it when E. and I let the house go to a place where I am disgusted with my own house and ashamed that we have let it get so far. All the shame and disgust makes it harder to tackle the cleaning – much easier to ignore and push those feelings aside. But we might have a house guest weekend after this, so we really have to get our butts in gear.

This also means we haven’t been cooking much, and it is starting to frustrate me. We need to completely empty the fridge and clean it top to bottom and then start disciplining ourselves to work on eating out the freezer.

I want to start a worm composter – but see earlier paragraph about state of the house. Have to fix that first – so I can get to the place that has the containers that I am going to turn into a worm composter. Also to make the space for the composter to live.  Extra motivation – lets see if it helps.

S.J. Tucker in concert here next week! Whoo!!! and then at Duckcon whee!!   -  I saw her at Wiscon (first time seeing her live) and she was great even though she was under the weather. I am really hoping I can get her at the house for a concert

We will probably be at Duckcon during the day on Saturday. We have a hotel room nearbye to crash at so I expect we’ll be there into the late evening at the least. I haven’t ever really been to Duck before, so I am looking forward to it . . .

The “un-tea” made me remember how much I liked hosting stuff.  I am hoping I can find the time to put some craft days back in the schedule and ease myself back into the hosting routine.

Getting ready to go to Wiscon for my first time. As usual feeling trepidations and shy. I wish I felt more comfortable around people I don’t know. Thank Stephanie that I am going with a friend. Hope she doesn’t mind me clinging like a limpet . . .

Meds are bringing some improvement – but it seems to come in bursts – which is a bit frustrating. And gee mom – of course meds will make up for a lifetime of bad habits and responses. Now that I am medicated, i will become susie homemaker and always have the house clean . . .NOT!! *sigh*

Working on streamlining some life stuff, I will probably trim some folks from LJ. For the most part it isn’t personal, and I suspect that most folks won’t notice or care, but if you do, drop me a line and we can chat about it. If I have time to do some reconnaissance and archiving off old communities that I used to be involved in, I might trim off quite a bit of the more media fannish side and start clean there – and maybe move that bit mostly over to Dreamwith.

Working on getting myself back into guitar playing, starting by “researching” a new playlist. SOSOSO sick of most of the songs I have been playing that I mostly just stopped playing. Some of the ones I want to learn are going to be quite a stretch both vocally and on guitar – and that should be pretty cool.

Garden appears to be moving along – if a bit late. I am trying to learn the plan’s tolerances (cold, heat, wet, dry), and remind myself that i won’t succeed at everything the first year. So far it appears that i’ll have lettuce, onions/leeks, spinach, and maybe carrots and beets. Broccoli looks good so far and so do strawberries. I should have seeds coming up for a bunch of things *VERY SOON NOW* (hint hint). When i come back from WisCon, there will have to be plant supports for tomatoes, beans, peas, and cucumbers. And hopefully it won’t be too late to start squash – cause it just isn’t going to happen until then.

Tried to make a doctor appt today – not that I demand instant service, but it would be nice if when they took your name and number they actually called you back. Was much easier to make a hair cutting appt.

Speaking of which – finally found a hair guy I like, after the last guy got promoted away from me. So of course, this guy is moving on . . . now I must start auditioning stylists again. The way my hair looks you’d never know that I am really picky about who cuts it. Is it too much to have a few vanities, my shoes, my toenail polish and my hair cutting person . . .

Us – lim

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