Nothing in Particular

Well, it appears a lot of my previous health-bitching may have been PMS, though my digestive system is still filing protests.

Anyway, yesterday was a good day. I was running late, so I went out for lunch, and the dessert was enough to keep me from eating a snack at coffee break time. I did some copy-editing on a report that is nominally internal, but that a couple of professors who expressed interest in the project might see. Then hit on a major error in some of the theory that I'll be fixing today, but it makes me feel better, since now the theory and the models give similar answers.

When I got home, sadly I couldn't make chili for dinner, since I discovered that the big pot I couldn't find was hiding in my fridge with month-old soup*, so got to be soaked in bleach before I used it again. So I'll make that tonight. I also got some writing done before I passed out early, and now I feel wide awake, even before I had my tea.

* Well, at least three-weeks old soup, since it was before I left for DPS, so it was made in September sometime.

It's amazing about mood. I mean, thinking back, if I had been in a crappy mood, the bad things (like the soup, or finding that error) would have outweighed the good things (a nice lunch, finally getting sensible answers, writing 1000 words). Hopefully the mood will maintain -- some of it might be the weather. It's doing the Ithaca fall thing where it's nice and sunny and the leaves are all pretty colors, and you know in a couple of days it'll dump rain (possibly snow, or 'wintery mix') on your head.

Signs that I, Becca Stareyes, hate myself...

Reading comment threads on:
-- Same-sex marriage on any political site (in this case, 538.com)*
-- Anything relating to feminism/civil rights, unless on a dedicated site
-- PunditKitchen (ICanHazCheezburger's site for news/poltics image macros)
-- Anything relating to vaccination/evolution/chemotheraphy***/the moon landing/Obama's birth/9-11/the Kennedy Assassination...

You know what? I should just stop reading blogs, except for the ones with pictures of puppies and kittens and humorous pastries.

* No, seriously, Willfully-Ignorant One, same-sex marriage will not cause humanity to die out because, believe it or not, gay people have children too. Frankly, even if every gay/bisexual person decided to not reproduce (unlikely -- in fact I'd say that same-sex marriage would be prone to make gay folks more likely to reproduce, because it would protect parental rights of the non-biological parent), there just aren't enough of us to bring the population down to replacement**. After folk have told you this twenty times, while insinuating that you are closeted for assuming that same-sex marriage will cause enough people to have same-sex relationships to alter the birthrate that much, do not move the goalposts to the 'if same-sex marriage is legal, churches will be forced to perform them'. Yes, and I can kick down the door of the local synagogue with any guy from work, and demand they marry us, regardless of not being Jewish (in either ancestry or religion) or ever having been in a synagogue before.

** Current world birth rate is about 2.5 kids per pair of humans. 2.1 kpp is replacement (because it needs to account for people who die in childhood). Gay folks make up somewhere between 2 and 10% of the population -- let's assume 10%. If every gay person stopped reproducing because of same-sex marriage, the birth rate goes down to 2.25. Face it, most human beings are below 3 on the Kinsey scale -- they prefer the opposite sex.

*** Yes, there are folks who seem to believe that cancer can be cured by diet, vitamins, positive thinking and shoving coffee up their rear ends (warning, Wikipedia link), and that chemo is what kills cancer patients.