The Past Week via Twitter: 2010-03-14
by V.E. on March 14th, 2010
filed under twitter
- this could be interesting: http://www.formspring.me/eveamedeus ask away. #
- RT @estherium RT @sh4ngl1ng: "We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for." – Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach #
- way to be totally U.S.-centric, right? http://bit.ly/bRwxxz it's sad that most people in the U.S. think this way. #
- @mefloraine according to that, it's all of Africa that doesn't exist. at least Canada is *in* the picture, even if it is "uninhabited"… #
- trying out something new with Twitter and my online journal. #
- RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Who will save us? http://bit.ly/9yGNFv #
- at any given moment, I have three or four journal entries in progress. http://duncanheights.com/blog #
- #WIP right now: CANAAN ep.4, Princess Tutu, International Women's Day, and others. #anime #women #writing #
- @Zekor only if you eventually finish them, baka. in reply to Zekor #
- @Zekor that does not count as "eventually"… "eventually" means "within the next year" in reply to Zekor #
- @Zekor I meant for you, not for me. in reply to Zekor #
- Diplocon #anime #convention is April 9th and 10th!!!! http://edisk.fandm.edu/Diplocon/ #
- this is what I want for my birthday. seriously. RT @yaoicon Big news! Dates, location, GoH and pre-reg info up on the site! http://www.yaoicon.com #
- everything worthwhile leaves bruises. #
- Forbidden Planet (1956) review: http://bit.ly/cb6j1s you ever seen it? #
- Ask and ye shall receive http://formspring.me/eveamedeus #
- yay! my Twitter experiment worked. thanks, @maymaym! #
- @corybrin what happened? you okay? in reply to corybrin #
- @Dredgly @Zekor I thought the same thing she thought. in reply to Dredgly #
- @justicewrites I haven't received a diploma order form yet, either. >_> in reply to justicewrites #
- there's got to be a better way than just reading twitter conversations backwards. #
- CANAAN ep.4 http://bit.ly/ac9zVT screencap heavy fyi #anime #
- @ktone52 It totally IS cool. in reply to ktone52 #
- RT @TheEllenShow Same-sex marriage was legalized this morning in Washington DC – hopefully other parts of the country will follow… #
- @Dredgly [sending you vibes] <3 what are you studying for? in reply to Dredgly #
- damn. I just realized how hungry I am. #
- rereading some of my entries from 2001 and 2002 just makes me cringe. I had *no idea* what I was doing. #
- did I write a review of Ouran Koukou Host Club?? I have this urge to watch it again. I should really buy it. #anime #
- @blackbluesock what's this about Endless Waltz? I loved that movie, too. in reply to blackbluesock #
- Oh. My. GOD. there's a BLEACH musical. I'm so serious. http://bit.ly/9HzRNc #anime #
- Shaenon Garrity says, "I mean, seriously. Bleach?" http://tinyurl.com/yejgj6z #
- screw it. I'm giving up on my site HTML/style for now. it's just going to have to stay the way it is. I should really just take a class. #
- hello, people. how's life? #
- How would you describe your life so far in a six-word sentence?: "I've wasted a lot of time." #
- In six words, how would you describe what you *want* for your life?: "Leap and the net will appear." #
- omg. I think I'm out of Gundam Wing and Vampire Knight fics to read. /dies #anime #
- oh good. I found some VK fiction. haha. and I thought there was none left. silly me, doubting the internets. #anime #
- @Dredgly yeah, I had to think about it for like… well, a long time. lol in reply to Dredgly #
- #FF today is Follow Friday again! I'm going to go with @WGItweets because they rock the colorguard (winterguard!) world. #
- having one hand with long fingernails and the other without is… somewhat disconcerting. #
- Prostitution is the world's oldest profession, and I, dear Madam, am a professional. #
- soon to be hanging out with Dave. hopefully. we'll see. #
- still tired after last night, even though I slept 12 hours. I'm so not a social butterfly. #
- "That's not funny… that's… not…" #
- Strange, the things that make me feel. #
- Wow. I totally completely missed the Oscars. So, who won? #
- Not feeling too good. #
- God, I feel horrible. #
- Better than earlier today. #
- I wrote about #IWD for the #BlogForIWD campaign this year http://bit.ly/9cJAW3 #
- @estherium but what about us? in reply to estherium #
- http://godzillahaiku.tumblr.com/ that is all. #
- I'm not sure if I'm hungry or sick to my stomach. #
- @Zekor if by "emo" you mean "emawesome"… in reply to Zekor #
- had an okay day, I guess. skipped class… we'll see about tomorrow. #
- why does no one ask me questions? http://www.formspring.me/eveamedeus #
- "twelve plus one" and "eleven plus two" use the same letters and are both 13 letters long. >_> #
- It's the last day on Earth in my dreams. It's the end of the world and you've come back to me. #
- This game of Tetris is kicking my ass. http://firstpersontetris.com/?tetris #
- aaaaargh why am I still uuuuuup? #
- @TheYaoiReview OMG YAY. It's about time! ^_^ happy me today. in reply to TheYaoiReview #
- Noo I have no internets. T_T #
- haha yes. I once again have internets. took long enough. #
- got to level 5 in crazy Tetris with both parentals watching me before I totally bombed. #
- so much for a normal sleep schedule. #
- @TheYaoiReview I CONCUR. in reply to TheYaoiReview #
- Happy Pi Day. Today is also White Day (chocolate!) and Einstein's birthday. #
- @blackbluesock WHAT? noooo what happened? in reply to blackbluesock #
NetQuote
by V.E. on March 14th, 2010
filed under ppp
If you’re in the market for any kind of insurance, make sure you check out NetQuote for auto, health, home, business, and even life insurance. For example, if you live in the Midwest and want Oklahoma insurance, you’d just fill out the brief form requiring your zip code, the type of insurance, and whether or not you have that insurance already. 
Then, hit the “Get Quotes” button and wah-lah! There you have it. I put in “73142″ and picked “Health Insurance” for the purposes of testing. I added my sex, birth date, height, weight, and other information—including a couple “pre-existing conditions”—and got all the way to the last step before I had to stop. The last step is to add your personal information so that insurance companies can actually contact you with offers. Since I don’t actually live in Oklahoma City, I can’t put in any (correct, true) information from there, but all in all, the process was relatively pain-free.
Your Fears Erased Here Daily
by V.E. on March 12th, 2010
filed under favorite
Awesome. I want one of these. Too bad it’s so difficult for me to even name to my fears.
Way to make me cry
by V.E. on March 10th, 2010
filed under favorite, personal, writing
In the mail today:
Dear V—,
You need to drop everything and focus on your manuscript. Get some excerpts in the mail to mags. It is more than important: critical. You must manage your own career. You are a writer; don’t forget. And a fine one.
Best,
M
“Set the Fire to the Third Bar” lyrics
by V.E. on March 10th, 2010
SONG: Set the Fire to the Third Bar
BY: Snow Patrol, featuring Martha Wainwright
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from ‘A’ to where you’d be
It’s only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I’d find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I’ve found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me
I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
After I have travelled so far
We’d set the fire to the third bar
We’d share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can’t keep in
I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms
I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms
International Women’s Day
by V.E. on March 8th, 2010
filed under fyi, personal, politics
Today is International Women’s Day, as March 8th has been every year since 1975. This year’s theme is: “Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all”, something about which I’m not sure what to write. Women still don’t have equal rights or equal opportunities, even in supposedly great nations such as the United States and other first-world countries like Japan, Germany, England, Spain, Italy, and France. 
And yes, I’m being specifically Eurocentric because it’s European and North American countries that have made the most progress—as far as I can see, at least—in women’s rights, much less other countries that still have honor killings and female genital mutilation of all things.
I’m somewhat conflicted about having an International Women’s Day (IWD) at all. If IWD is on March 8th, what does that make all the other days of the year, by default? Yeah, I thought so.
A couple of weeks ago, I was in my night class, “Women, the Earth, and the Divine”, when we were asked to come up with a personal and then group definition of “feminism”. According to Wikipedia, feminism is
a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women. Feminism involves political, cultural and sociological theories, as well as philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference. It is also a movement that advocates gender equality for women and campaigns for women’s rights and interests.
While that’s accurate, I decided to go for something simpler. I wrote, Feminism is the radical idea that women are human. It’s not an original idea (Cheris Kramarae said it first), but it seemed to me the simplest way I could say something that’s so apparently controversial that calling someone a “feminist” is (or, at least, can be) like calling them a bitch or worse—insulting. Feminists are not man-haters, for example.
Anyway, my group liked the definition so much that they decided to forgo theirs completely and use mine as the group definition. I was flattered but anxious about that because the teacher didn’t seem like the kind of woman who would really understand the sentiment (or appreciate my sense of humor, for that matter). I was right; she didn’t. When she got to my group’s definition, she read it aloud and then sat there, appalled, for a good half minute before saying something like, ” Well, that’s completely insulting.” I ducked my head, flushing, even though she didn’t know who’s definition it had originally been. What a bad idea that had had been, right?
Well, she brushed over it after the class finished laughing, we moved on to other groups’ definitions, and the moment passed. But I think it would have been prudent for her to have actually addressed what she thought was insulting. I mean, my definition is true. Feminism is the radical idea that women are human. For centuries, women (and children) have been recognized only as a part of a man—daughter to a father, wife to a husband, or mother to a son. It’s been the man who’s been important, and the woman has been an extension of him.
The day women stop being considered in terms of men and start being considered in terms of their own merits is the day feminism will have served its purpose. Until then, though, we’ll just have to keep working toward equity.
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Also, on an unrelated note: today is B—’s birthday. I find it to be completely ironic that he and IWD share a day; he’s certainly done his part to maintain the white male privilege status quo.
On another unrelated note: today is also A—’s brithday. Since she wrote me that note a while ago about not wanting to be my friend anymore, she’s sent me numerous Facebook invites, etc., which I find to be totally faux pas. Are you my friend, or not? Just pick one and let’s be done with it. (I’m leaning toward not, though I guess etiquette is complicated when I’m Facebook friends with someone who isn’t really a real friend.)
Contents of a Mermaid’s Purse
by V.E. on March 3rd, 2010
filed under recap/review, writing
Review up over at the Feminist Review. Please read and comment.
