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( Gaeilge )

And every once in a while you wander into someone's response to a question that is so patronizing, so simplified, so teacher-talking-down-to-the-students that you just want to go oh honey. just how stupid do you think I am? Bonus points if they don't seem to have any information beyond the baby steps you've already mastered. There's a lot of ways to give advice, even simple beginning-steps advice that the person may already know, without coming across as patronizing. People do it on my journal all the time! *waves to awesome flist* And yet sometimes, some people just manage to push all my oh, honey buttons. And then I bang my head on the desk, bite my tongue, and rant to you guys.

But then I had Neil Gaiman on Craig Ferguson to watch this morning and they cure a lot of ills and irritations. Also, there is a haggis. And for the next five minutes all I could say was HAGGIS IN THE TARDIS.

Right. Today is a ... looks like a middling busy day at work. Which hopefully means more stuff written and maybe some actual factual filing done. Gasp. Shock. Things are proceeding on houses, but nothing terribly interesting yet.

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Ich habe Kopfschmerzen. :/ Which is timely.

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My tits are alligators your argument is invalid. Seriously, I want that. If I weren't in the middle of negotiating a Massive Life Purchase I would be all over that like Sorcerers on emotional chain-jerking. Also in wildlife news, but more along the lines of Wait, SERIOUSLY? someone was spray painting hawks. I'm not sure whether to be irked that they're spray painting hawks or impressed because they're spray painting hawks. Probably irked. A man with two hearts survived a double heart attack, and I really can't put it much more plainly than that, and finally, rest in peace, great lady.

So, I've been seeing a lot about the Black March stuff, and I actually think it's a fabulous idea, with a couple of exceptions. I will still be buying books... from used bookstores. To support my local business and maybe pass along some books so other people will buy more from that author. I will be buying books... from authors where I can buy from them direct. I will still buy music, if I see the musicians selling their CDs. Or can get them from the musician's website. Admittedly, if March goes the way I think it will I won't be buying much that isn't household stuff, but I will be avoiding the big corporations and buying local, direct, etc, as much as I can. Because as nice as it is to stick it to the money-grubbing bastards, it's also nice to support the creators I love.

More cheerful news! Cuddle meme, only not quite. Leave me a fandom and two/three/four characters and I will come up with a short piece of cuddly fiction! Because obviously I don't have enough writing to do.

And, actually, I should go do some of that, plus some of that modding thing since I am supposedly a responsible mod and adult. Stop laughing.