I have many thoughts on gender, and lots of them even conflict with each other. My brain is a complicated place

As is your fiancé. Oh, that's a cute word on you. Really suits you.

Are ministers also diplomats?

Not necessarily, no.

So it turns out that I was right. No, seriously, I was. The co-worker (not on my team, blessedly) who punted the support request at me with insufficient data and then tried to backseat drive me troubleshooting it, was wrong. I sat down with the person he told me not to talk to, walked through the setup screens, made sure everything was saved, and re-tested the use case.

Bingo! Everything is fine. When I told him, did he have the least bit of contrition? Zero ounces, give or take minus two. Good lord. But I will rock myself to sleep with the knowledge that I can do bits of his job and just try and work out some way to not get into tugs of war with him. For some reason his ego has gotten weird in the past month or so. Keeps trying to tell me how the systems I designed work. Incorrectly to boot. Denies he was given X information. I resend the document. Tells me he knew all that. Well, I did send you the document a year ago. It's possible you READ IT. IN MY DOCUMENT. What with me being the subject matter expert and shit...

Grr.

Another co-worker (who I do like) just came by and read my palm and told me I was stubborn and artistic.

From certain angles, maybe.

I love this comic [link] because that is just perfectly awful.

Ha! That's perfect full stop.

The co-worker (not on my team, blessedly) who punted the support request at me with insufficient data and then tried to backseat drive me troubleshooting it, was wrong.

I am SHOCKED at this turn of events.

Another co-worker (who I do like) just came by and read my palm and told me I was stubborn and artistic.

I could tell you that without even looking at your palm.

told me I was stubborn and artistic

I should never have guessed! Heh.

Hmm. Technically I am off in 8 minutes, but I have to meet my family for dinner at 6:15 only a couple of miles away. Wonder if I can find someone to meet me earlier for drinks?

I have many thoughts on gender, and lots of them even conflict with each other. My brain is a complicated place

As is your fiancé.

Boy howdy, is he ever.

Oh, that's a cute word on you. Really suits you.

Heh. I still slip and say "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" all the time. That was the status quo for 7 years; it's a hard habit to break!

I feel like the terms stack - that he is still your boyfriend and also now your fiancé.

Oh, hey, I have new Gooseberry Bluff to read. And wine to drink. I'd better get on that.

I think the results of 1006 surveys on basic scientific points are interesting, but they don't tell me enough. I'd like to know what percentage of people picked every wrong answer (and that by demographic too).

Congratulations on the new house, Dana!

The pizza pub near me has something called "white ketchup" on some of their pizzas. We finally had to ask and it is basically just Ranch.

I saw on some cooking show that ketchup was originally fish sauce. So if they wanted to put together an anchovey paste-garlic-olive oil spread and call it "old fashioned ketchup" that would probably be arguable. Ranch dressing, not so much.

It's a surreal social/political pressure that I feel when someone downplays racism, and I feel the urge to point out that no, not from where I (and others) am standing, like if I point out racism, I'll be labelled a troublemaker of some sort.

I still do it--twice today I couldn't let the "Thankfully *my* country is a racial utopia" comment go by, but...Brazil and the UK? Really?

Fine. Troublemaker it is.

But also home goer! Whoot woot!

Damn. Forgot to pee. Gotta put that on my list.

To get on my shuttle, I have to leave my desk at 5:00 (latest) and run straight down. But then I can be home in 10-20 minutes, so I usually just pee when I get home. But tonight I meant to walk home, and forgot! So I was outside, in time for the shuttle, and had to pee. So I didn't walk. La-Z.