So the new guy on Law & Order, Cyrus Lupo, played by Jeremy Sisto, is a hottie, like a young Tom Berenger. & He can act.
Anyone think it’s a coincidence that Detective Green was ushered out the week of Earth Day?
Quote of the Day
“I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.” – Amy Poehler
Don’t Speak
Today is the Day of Silence, a day when students don’t speak in order to address issues of harassment and bullying in schools. It is not neccessarily specific to the protection of LGBT students, except that of course LGBT and gender variant students tend to be the target of most of the harassment.
From NCTE:
At NCTE, we believe passionately in the rights of all children and young people to go to school and be free from bullying and harassment. Learning needs to take place in an environment where children are safe — physically as well as emotionally — and can express their identities as they grow and develop. Transgender children and teens deserve these rights as much as every other student in our schools.
This year’s Day of Silence is dedicated to Lawrence King.
GLSEN is the organization who started this event, and you can find out more about it at their website.
The Lesbian Hotel
Does anyone else ever see the Doubletree Hotels logo and think it looks like a lesbian symbol? I do. So much so that every time I pass one I think, “and there’s the lesbian hotel.”
It’s not, of course. Not as far as I know, anyway. But still, just one little cross-stroke, & it could be.
Neil Gaiman Fan Club
Reason #428 why I love Neil Gaiman.
Despite his self-doubt, he’s given me two of the best pieces of writing advice I’ve ever gotten:
- Finish what you start.
- You can only get up to make more tea.
After that, it’s just a bitter fight to turn your brain off so that you can not think well enough to write.
Law & Order Gawk
My little plan today was to take 6 bags of clothes over to the Salvation Army since the one near us was gentrified out about a year or so ago; Betty volunteered to come with me, & then said coquettishly, “I thought maybe we could stop at the Old Navy.”
We never made it to Old Navy. We went to Victoria’s Secret, where I was promptly given the dyke sign to carry around when a salesperson came up to me to ask if I needed any help, and I just pointed to Betty and said, “I’m just waiting for her.” Afterwards, Daffy’s for a quick minute, since the place gives us both headaches. I walked quickly by the Cold Stone Creamery, since it’s a weakness of mine and I’m trying to lose weight, and then Target, since I have a firm belief that the only good summer clothes are cheap – nearly disposable. At least for bras and t-shirts I like, since I tend to sweat through them over a season. (TMI, maybe, but hey, you try finding cotton bras to support D cups in 90 degree heat & 90% humidity without sweating through them, & get back to me.)
We bought nearly nothing but we were starving by the time I’d try to pick out Hanes hipsters in the right size – $8 for 6! – and decided to walk to the Wendy’s in Fulton Mall. It was a hike, but we had lunch, & then we walked home, all the way down 4th Avenue (about 1.6 miles), decided to grab the all-important accordion files I needed for us, & for a client, on the way home.
& There was Kathryn Erbe! In Staples on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn! Kind of the least likely place I would have expected to see anyone, but it was her, & I didn’t gawk. The only odd thing was feeling safer with Eames in the house, which is of course desperately goofy since she’s an actor, not an actual NYPD detective.
We did make it home. I’d say we did a little more than 3 miles of walking, which means that my flat foot gave in & now I’m gimping with pain. But unfortunately there’s going to be a bit more pain before I get some of this weight off, which I have to do.
PFLAG
There was a very recent kerfuffle about a local PFLAG chapter voting for Safe Schools legislation that was not gender identity inclusive. A few people emailed a few people from PFLAG National and they made sure that the local would not support gender identity exclusive language in the bill, and reassured me that PFLAG will only support legislation that is trans inclusive. National will be working with the local to write inclusive language for an upcoming Op-Ed.
PFLAG rocks.
For those of you who don’t know, they also have a special transgender division, called TNET.
(Thanks to Ethan St. Pierre and Diana for bringing my attention to it.)
NYC: Trans Partners Meeting
Today, in New York, at the Center. For more info.
Gore Galore
Anyone else tired of the drama? We’ve been watching Pennsylvania primary returns, & they exhaust me. But I can’t stop watching, either, just like that night Gore won the Presidency.
Divergent Lives
My lives have diverged, some days in ways I can’t even measure.
Recently, at my 20th HS reunion, people wanted to know if they should call me Helen. Worse yet, I met up with an old friend who was in town for Comic Con and he wanted to know what to introduce me as.
But the worst is when it comes to work: on the one hand I’m a published author who has lectured at quite a lot of U.S. colleges and universities, who was recently nominated as one of the Top Ten female bloggers, and who has teaching experience at the college level.
On the other hand, I’m a freelance admin and bookkeeper who has also tutored and edited for the past couple of years.
When I look at my one resume (my author CV, to be accurate), I’m convinced the the temp people are going to want to know why on earth I need a temp job. But the other looks a little thin for someone who is approaching 40, & really looks like I haven’t been doing much for the past couple of years, which I haven’t, because I’ve been busy promoting a book and teaching, of course.
It’s a funny life. But I still need a job.