Catching Ducks

By popular request: my new couch!

Today I dusted my apartment and cleaned my sinks/counters for no reason at all. I think this is the first time in my life that I have cleaned just for me, rather than for company coming over.

Does this mean I'm officially a grown-up?

In an effort to make myself post more regularly, I'm starting a new feature: The Quote of the Week.

This week's quote comes from a weird and annoyingly confusing book that occasionally had some awesome bits. From The Female Man by Joanna Russ:


I tried once, you know, went to a dance
all dressed up, but I felt like such a fool.
Everyone kept making encouraging
remarks about my looks as if they were
afraid I'd cross back over the line again;
I was trying, you know, I was proving
their way of life was right, and they were
terrified I'd stop.

When I got my new camera, I was finally forced to figure out how to update my computer. I had been trying to do so for quite some time, but I never got the update to work. The new camera, however, required that I get the update. So, I fiddled and searched and tried this and that and finally! it worked.

For the next week, I was quite pleased to discover that all of my computer's issues (freezing up, refusing to start, etc.) had gone away. Hooray! I thought. The update fixed all that.

But today my computer freaked when I turned it on. But not the old way of freaking. This was a little different. But still, I had to turn it on the slow way to make it work. Drat. :(

Isn't he cute?

I've seen it twice, and will be first in line to buy it when it comes out on DVD. It's a wonderful, beautful film. Mom, Dad, Soto: You should go see it! It's good!

Ok, so Dad & Soto, you straight boys are uncomfortable with the guy/guy kissing. What about you, Mom? A lot of straight women enjoy that stuff. No, you think it's icky, too.

So set aside the fact that the story is about two men being in love. It's a well-acted, well-written, beautifully shot movie. It's moving and emotionally powerful. I have co-workers who went to see it with their (straight) boyfriends and brothers-in-law, and they thought it was good.

No, huh?

It really is good! When I buy the DVD, you can borrow it, or come over to my place and watch it with me, or I'll come to you and we can watch it......... sigh.

So you're going to miss seeing one of the best movies of the year, and one my new favorite movies, all because you're uncomfortable with the idea of watching to men fall in love.

I guess it's lucky that I'm the one who turned out to be queer, and not Soto...