Call the UVA library reference desk and ask if they have guest internet access. Many public institutions do.

Also, in "the east coast's weather, 6-8 hours earlier" news, we have a storm front coming through right now but it's a lot less violent than Friday's; more your run of the mill summer evening thunderstorm.

I'm doing research for my sister who's writing a letter to the editor (it's that time in the ! family once again...) responding to some major "gay penises touch gay butts and that ruins everything" posturing in an article in a major Jamaican newspaper: [link]

While looking up numbers for "not all gay men have anal sex" I came across a weird site: [link] . It's remarkably heteronormative for an M2M site--it posits that catching makes you a pussy (for varying degrees of literal), and therefore all gay Men (it's a thing) should not just engage in frottage, but it seems that intercrural is tainted, and the only thing that will let you retain your glorious manliness is phallus to phallus sex.

Anal penetration, which at present is extolled by the mainstream gay male community, is by contrast inherently unequal, unnatural, and effeminizing, and is a vector for a host of physical ills, including some which are among the most terrifying known to humankind.

That's pretty--special.

Now I have to find her reports of the mental health of kids with two gay fathers. The first results I'm finding are all about lesbian parenting and the world not ending.

Must go deeper.

Must go deeper.

I see what you did there.

I just found this site 2houses which is a web tool designed to facilitate co-parenting with different households. It has tools like a shared calendar, and medical information store for the kid(s) in question.

It's not written by someone good with English--their contact page is so error-ridden that I emailed them about it. A more OCD person than my amazingly well-adjusted self might have gone further than the first error in the first sentence and suggested they have another look.

I got speculoos at Trader Joe's today! Um, what am I supposed to do with it, again? I also got fresh figs and prosciutto. I do know what to do with them.

Dagnabbit -- the cat is on to me, and has begun to eat the treat around the pill. Would a pill pocket actually help with that? I've been smushing them pretty well around the tiny half-pill. I cannot deal with getting his mouth open.

Pill pockets work a charm on one of my cats but not the other, it all depends on how much they like the pill pockets.

I have the TJ's speculoos, too, flea, and I'm not sure what to do with it. I tried spreading it on crackers and eating it, and that was good, but now I'm out of crackers. So that's an option, I guess.

When I had to pill my cat it was awful, and my cat hated me. The only way I could do it was wrapping her in a towel, prying her mouth open, and holding her mouth closed and up until I was sure it was swallowed.

She was so mad at me, she would literally look at me, turn her back, and lay down.