more positive things

1. Actually saw this great comic from a gay guy about sex with trans guys yesterday but forgot to link it: http://comics.billroundy.com/?p=1116

2. Today I won a copy of the Heiresses of Russ 2013 anthology from Tor.com! Free lesbian SF for me!

3. Dinner involved Chinese-style BBQ pork, taiyaki, and mangosteen. (I went to Uwajimaya. Lots more things I want to eat are here now, but only so much room in tummy.)

4. Okay, everyone else, you win. The Summer Prince is really good. I forced my way 2/3 through it before stalling out for weeks and making grumpy comments to everyone who liked it, also known as "everyone". I determined to finish it a couple days ago, and it finally clicked. Then I started over again from the beginning. Shut up.

5. NINJA LOTL rests with impossible lightness on top of buildings!

happy things of the day

1. were_duck being AN UTTER BADASS AT ALL TIMES.

2. I went a little out of my way going to school because I wanted to see new things, and found grapes and a tiny ziggurat!

3. Trivial yet brilliant innovation in the lab: instead of trying to put the plastic wrap to the side of where I'm working, which always results in nuisancy crumpling, stick it to the metal part of the bench with the power of little cupcake magnets!

4. Parallels fanworks! My favorite so far is Lovely Exorcist Nanami (Utena).

5. I might get to meet with the person who wrote this scathing rebuttal of John Tierney's article about how women are just worse at science than men. Her piece strikes a very few sour notes with me, but overall? Bad ASS.

6. The smell of rock-rose bushes in the rain.