Thanks. Nebbermind.

If any of you have a moment, would you mind reading and commenting on this blurb about women and traditionally male-dominated sports. Thanks.

eta fixed a setting thing so comments are now possible. der. am stupid.

Our dear Billytea will be in NYC on August 28th and 29th.

Time to get festive, AUZZIE STYLE!

Hey there! Have been dark for several days and will continue to be for the next week, most likely, but am in Bangkok safely and all seems to be well. V. well, in fact. Cat Daniel arrived with absolutely no bother and is in a cattery at present - hopefully by end of week I shall have a flat, but am presently residing in swanky 5 star hotel. Yay!

Also, is my 33rd birthday today (20th August) and I have just welcomed it in by clubbing my socks off in Patpong, with various coworkers. Which is a bit of a tangent, but anyway - yes, dark, but will hopefully be back soon.

(also somewhat pissed at present, as is half past three on my natal day and am full of vodka. apologies for any infelicities in preceding post)

........

I have never been more grateful or humble. I have no words.

Thank you is not enough. I don't know who contributed, and I don't care. You are all some of the most incredible people I have ever known.

For an update: S is improving, and may be home soon, but long term, we have a number of very serious things we need to think about and make happen, if we can.

Again, thank you all. I.....

No words.

I have a job teaching middle school math and science. This may surprise those of you who remember that I wanted to teach high school math, but there you are -- school starts next week, and I really need a job.

But this way I get to use bright colors and posters and have maybe a little more childish fun with the kids, so there's that.

I am nervous as HELL and excited. Thanks everyone who's been crossing their fingers and encouraging me.

(ETA: I only just saw all the -ma. Given that it was my very first interview, and they decided not to bother with the applicants they were supposed to interview tomorrow, the -ma must have been working overtime. Thank you all SO much for your encouragement. It means a lot.)

Mostly for Bay Area locals, but feel free:

I just went looking through my closet for a little black dress, something uncrushable that can be rolled up in the suitcase and worn out to dinner, or for parties, with my Jimmy Choos. I didn't find one.

However, one thing led to another, and I now have a pile halfway to the ceiling, of clothing to give away. This pile runs the gamut from Wilson's leather trousers (ranging size 8 and up a few sizes), evening wear (and I do mean evening wear) that my boobs will never speak to again in this life, several pairs of tailored stretchy trousers that are for some reason too damned short on me these days, ranging from size 6 up, DKNY and Ralph Lauren dresses (mostly in size 10), coppery velvet in a size large, sapphire blue velvet ditto, some stuff from CP Shades, Dolce & Gabbana jeans in a 6....the list goes on.

I don't want to give this to the Goodwill; they've had piles from me before, and this is very good stuff; some of it is edging on couture. However, the thought of separating it out and listing all of it - no. Really no.

Anyone here want some? I'm waving this mostly at the Bay Area locals, mostly because I haven't got the time to pack things and shlep to the post office for at least another ten days. Also, I really don't want to be responsible for a lot of shipping charges - people tend to forget about those, and when we're talking ten different boxes to all over the country, it can add up in a hurry.

Let me know, FAST, profile addy. If you want a look, or want some, I'll put it aside. But I leave for Anaheim Thursday, and anything not pinged by then gets sent to charity.

I'm going to be mostly dark(I may get to check my email regularly, but not much more) starting tomorrow as I attend LACon.

I'm still pretty dark where B.org is concerned (y'all move too fast), but I enjoy my sightings of various buffistae on gmail chat and LJ.

I'm dropping in to say that a friend of mine is one of the main organizers of The Browncoat Ball in SF this year and would much appreciate it if y'all would attend.