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February 12th, 2008

February 12th, 2008
12:02 pm [Link]	Random Updates From A Weasel 1) I wrote yesterday about Gini's amazing sweetness. And yet she topped herself. See, at around 7:30 at night, I wandered into her room. "It's finished," I said. I was exhausted. What was supposed to be a routine server upgrade had, with a saddening predictability, turned into a fiasco that had taken fourteen straight hours to untangle. (Most of which wasn't under my control.) But I'd been through this before: One particularly awful night about eighteen months ago, a server transfer had taken a thirty-six hour shift to get through, which was one of the loneliest experiences in my life. To this day, I remember being up at four in the morning, feeling alone and isolated and stressed, watching Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" repeatedly in an attempt to feel like somebody else in the world was alive. Gini, however, looked a little worried when I told her I was done. "Really?" she asked. "'Cause I have a lot of work left to do." "Well, I was thinking about going to bed soon," I said. "I kind of wanted you to come with me." "I know," she said guility. "But I thought it would take longer. So I was going to stay up with you for as long as it took so you wouldn't have to work through the night alone again." She might not be anyone else's valentine. But she's mine. And I couldn't love her more. 2) With regards to my eyebrow piercing, once again roniliquidity has seen through me with a depressing regularity: "I've never seen an eyebrow piercing look good on a guy that wasn't working the fragile androgynous thing. I don't see this being a good look for you." And she's right. I realize that I associate eyebrow piercings with good-looking, waifish guys who have the sorts of lithe bodies and clean-cheeked faces that I personally envy. And somehow I had come to believe that by putting one of them on my face, I would somehow transform my fat-balloon head into something different. But I wouldn't. She's right. Not a good look. Dammit. 3) That said, I still like eyebrow piercings a lot. And the question of what else I could pierce without looking ludicrous is a matter of taste. (And despite the message of someone from my postbox, a penis piercing is right out. Little Elvis is not getting pierced. 4) Preliminary reviews of the book, at least to those slim folks I've given it to, appear to be good. Now I have to clean up the first three chapters and get a proposal ready. Weirdly enough, I've written a romance, which seems abnormal but actually it came out sweeter than I'd hoped. But there's also a lot of really horrific sex essays, too. We'll see whether bonerici is right. (25 shouts of denial | tell me I'm full of it)
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02:02 pm [Link]	Presented Without Comment West Models. Work-safe. Kinda. (Okay, according to people who work, it's not, so don't click at work.) Also legal. Barely. In that actually barely legal sense. Okay, one comment: Ewwww. Okay, one other comment: I found sample photos from this while Stumbling. Apparently, someone likes it enough to mark it "I Like it!" enough so that the picture in question (which was someone even younger than the sample pics) would come up in my trawl. Which is a little disturbing. As is the thought that somewhere, Moms are lining up their daughters to be photgraphed for this. As stated, nothing illegal about it, but the crowd it's trawling for is obviously lusting for illicit activity, placing it in that gray zone. All right, I guess there are a lot of comments. (88 shouts of denial | tell me I'm full of it)
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02:11 pm [Link]	Also.... Want. (Eric and yuki_onna may want to pay particular attention to this piece of household adornment.) (13 shouts of denial | tell me I'm full of it)