hate

I just dropped a plate with my whole pizza warm out of the oven on it, breaking the plate (a limited resource of whih we now have only SIX) AND smashing my pizza all over the floor. It is 300% too cold, wet, windy, and haily to even think about leaving the house. I'm hungry. I want my pizza back!

I'm so near tears over this it's ridiculous. Pizza :( :( :(

ETA: OH, OH, ALSO: HI, PERIOD.

This day is officially DEAD to me. Ugh. Oh, and now I HAVE to leave the house. WONDERFUL.

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Some items of interest:

1. I enjoyed St. Trinian's, but did anyone else feel it had a serious lack of lesbianism? Hmm.

2. This post about race, ethnicity, and Psych (via the People of Colour in SF carnival, although what Psych is doing in a post about SF... ;)) was illuminating in several ways - like Alexis Bledel is Hispanic and speaks Spanish fluently! I feel terribly embarassed I did not know that. Anyway, I was interested by a number of people of mixed race commenting that they often experience conversations with people who are intent on pinning down their ethnicity/race, and how troubling these conversations are.( tiny bit of navel-gazing )

3. Also of interest today: This post about the Rape & Revenge storyline in fantasy/sf (comics fans will be aware of similar discussion in that media.) If you're not familiar with the notion of R&R, read that post, but briefly, and R&R storyline is the all-too-common backstory for women in SF&F: they experience a rape, which motivates them to Do Good (or occasionally Bad). (IMO, R&R storylines are the women's version of Women in Refrigerators syndrome: I find it interesting that violence against women is seen to be the best motivator for both women and men, but normally doesn't motivate them to, for example, work a Rape Crisis hotline or address the issue of violence against women; rather, it seems to motivate them to go out and investigate crimes against men - theft and murder, for example.)

Pursuant to that, anyone want to talk about Keladry of Mindelan as a sexual assault story success?( There are a few things that make Kel different from R&R stories )