Yay! I'm chez louiselux, it's sunny and warm, and tomorrow we're going to SqueeFest! Yay!

OMG, so hot 'n sticky. I want to leap into a big bath of talc and emerge like a faintly-perfumed ghost.

Today I am wearing: a long scarlet linen skirt, a bright orange v-necked t-shirt, white fake Birkenstocks with orange flowers, fake ivory necklace and bangles, silver and garnet ring. My fingernails and toenails are painted bright orange.

How about you?

It's very hot and humid. No sunshine. My eyeshadow has melted from my eyelids in a non-pleasing fashion. Damn you, Juuuuuuuly!

( And then I inadvertently looked at a LoLcat while drinking tea. Alas, poor monitor )

Church vote opens door to female bishops, Riazat Butt (Guardian)

Cry of faith: high emotions over vote on women bishops, Peter Walker (Guardian newsblog)

Church of England votes to ordain women bishops, Ruth Gledhill (Times, with Sky News clip)

Ruth Gledhill's liveblogging of the synod debate

Some Nagi-centric Schwarz!kinder drabbles, from Akira's babyhood to four years old. In which he displays an unfortunate vocabulary around children.


( Five Times Nagi Felt He'd Beaten Adversity, and One Time Kikuno Beat Him )

Fraser Lewry is cooking his way through the alphabet (carnivorously), most recently with Snail Porridge.

Ew. Eww. Ew ew ew.

God, porridge. *fails ethnicity roll*


ETA: this post on Jammie Dodgers filled me first with nostalgia, then creeping, porridge-like dread. Why update such wondrous treasures of the past?

Also, Creme Eggs have got smaller. *brandishes zimmer frame*

Three sets of five drabbles written for stagesoflove. All are Weiss Kreuz, all are Nagi/Mamoru.

( Five Ways to Say, 'I Miss you' )

( Five Ways to Say Sorry )

( Five Emotions )

For the WK fans: Eszett receives official recognition *snickers*

Via brisingamen: Explaining science fiction to women, Megan McArdle.

Via bookslut Global Warming, Female Utopias and Gender Roles - Interview with Sarah Hall I liked The Carhullan Army (aka, Daughters of the North), even if the publishers and the author pretend it's not genre fiction. Perhaps Ms McArdle could use it to explaaaaain.

One thing about The Carhullan Army though ( spoiler )

Heinz has dropped a mayonnaise ad after complaints were made about the same-sex kiss in it. It's a rather nice ad, I think. Still not buying mayonnaise, though. *shudders*


The ad, no article.

Via languagelog (which site will often not load for me, but hurray for its RSS-feed):

( Don't click if the boss is reading over your shoulder )

I've been playing around with Wordle. It's awfully addictive and pretty. Here is what it does to Mr Fenn's text of Bracy and Gedge's climactic moment on the mountain:



( more wordling )

Orientalism at 30 (the Guardian) - a series of articles to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Said's book. Note that these articles are in the "Comment is Free" section, so save your sanity and avoid the comments.

Here's a little vampire story to brighten your Monday!

Vampire Domestication, by Peter Watts (pdf) and as an illustrated talk.

Roadworks on one of the major roads going through the city centre during the morning rush hour? EPIC FAIL.

Deciding to drink a really giant cup of coffee, feeling your pulse speed up after the first few gulps and thinking, Ehhh, I'll drink the rest anyway. How jittery can I get? Possibly also epic fail, but at least it'll be fast moving as well as epic. *drinks more coffee*

So, Doctor Who. All other narrative and political questions aside, ( in next week's episode . . . )

Hmm. An impressive number of typos there to be edited away. I guess How jittery can I get? will eventually have an answer. *drinks more of giant coffee*

I'm in hell! Work hell! Please to be leaving amusing comments/comment fic/jokes/strangenesses so that I may get through my day of being prodded with pitchforks? *bats eyelashes*

Happy birthday, viridian5!

A Victorian!Schwarz snippet for you.

( Rome )

Happy birthday, lady_ganesh! May cakes rain down!


A quartet of Nagi-centric Schwarz!kinder drabbles for you.

( Job, Satisfaction )