2011-01-06

Why was I not watching Nikita when it first aired? *is three episodes in and adoring it* Bechdel passing left, right, and center! ACTION SHOWS/MOVIES WITH GENDER PARITY WORK, YO.

My accounting software thinks I made a profit in December, because the hundreds of dollars I spent on beads and charms counts as assets, not expenses, until I actually make something with the beads in question, and income is revenue minus expenses, no consideration of assets. I actually am making a profit in January, though I'm still nowhere near bringing in as much money as I've spent. Big sale this morning! \o/

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Poll #5549

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Should I make another Mary Winchester charm bracelet?

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yes
3 (50.0%)

no
0 (0.0%)

only if it's doable without spending fifty dollars on charms
3 (50.0%)

see comments
0 (0.0%)

Do you think I'm hurting my sales by:

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having unabashedly political items for sale (A-for-atheist earrings, leather queer Pride flag earrings, lotsa butterfly earrings with the note that butterflies symbolize transfolk, etc)
0 (0.0%)

saying on the shop front page that part of the money is going to a charity customers may not like (Global Health Council, to treat neglected tropical diseases)
0 (0.0%)

not talking enough on DW/FB/Twitter about my Etsy shop
5 (83.3%)

not talking enough in meatspace about my Etsy shop
2 (33.3%)

something else, see comments
0 (0.0%)

none of the above
1 (16.7%)

Ticky!

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Pilot
2 (40.0%)

In My Time of Dying
1 (20.0%)

Magnificent Seven
0 (0.0%)

Lazarus Rising
2 (40.0%)

Sympathy for the Devil
1 (20.0%)

Exile on Main St.
0 (0.0%)

Kill Jill
0 (0.0%)

I like the hobbit tradition of giving presents on one's birthday. Mine's on the thirteenth. As I'll remind you whenever I go to bed on the twelfth (so circa 10pm EST), there will be a coupon for five percent off your purchase.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/sunbowgems

So I figured I'd have to read the entirety of each of the books I'm supposed to have for my Black American Lit course, and I figured I'd start with the earliest chronologically, The Classic Slave Narratives. Specifically I read the first two in the compilation, The Life of Olaudah Equiano and The History of Mary Prince. So which am I supposed to have read come next Thursday? Part of the third in the compilation. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Did I mention, slave narratives? Including, in Equiano's case, the Middle Passage? Including, in both Equiano's and Prince's books, descriptions of appalling violence? And now I find out I didn't actually have to read those at all.

2011-01-06

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Take Me For What I Am: Steady

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