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[froodle]

*grumbles*

So last night my keyboard, having been subjected to three years of spillage and splutterings, finally gave up the ghost after I accidently emptied half a pint of boiling water over it. Yes, well, I never claimed to be Real Life Competent. Therefore today, instead of lounging in bed, playing with Thlayli and writing another thousand words of my dissertation, I had to go into town to buy a new one.

Simple, right? And I stopped off at a couple of the second-hand stores near the bus station to buy myself some books to compensate for having to give up my Day of Rest And Wanton Perving. So that wasn't too bad. Especially because I got "Five PEople You Meet in Heaven" for a pound, and Richard Adams' Shardik for 25p. Things could have gone a lot worse, considering.

Except that when I got home, half the keys on my brand new keyboard didn't work. So I had to take it back, get a refund and buy a new one.

At which point, it started to snow.

Now, don't get me wrong, I like snow. Plus I was listening to "Wandering Child" on my trusty CD player, so it kinda fit the mood. But this morning it was warm enough for me to be dreaming about doing Naughty Things with melted chocolate and Gerry Butler's sun-warmed skin, and so I was dressed appropriately. (For the weather, I mean, not for doing Naughty Things with Gerry Butler.) And by this point, I am shivering in my shitty broken boots and my toes are going numb.

So, I go to Starbucks. To get coffee. And obviously since it's above Borders, I have to go and look at the books. And obviously I have to get a couple to read while I drink my coffee and wait for the feeling to return to my fingers.

Yeah.

Stupid Cornelia Funke, why must you rock so hard? I needed that money for Highlander dvds. (TV series with Sexy Duncan and Snarkalicious Methos, obviously, not the shitty movies with Christopher "Frogface McCan'tAct" Lambert and Sean "I Ruin Everything I'm In" Connery).

Also, my Attila and Reign of Fire dvds arrived today.

Yeah, I'm so not working on my dissertation right now.

Comments

[clay-mans-maker.livejournal.com]

I can imagine you being furious about some things you stumble across... With some laws you wouldn't believe we have already reached the 21st century. :/


wasnt homosexuality still classified as a disease untill about 20 years ago?

[froodle]

30 years ago, but yeah. Transsexuality is still classed as a mental illness, which is stupid because before you can start Gender Reassignment, you have to be certified as sane by two different psychiatrists.

You should see some of the ridiculous provisions the original draft of the Gender Recognition Act contained, too. Like trans people weren't allowed to adopt on the basis children with trans parents would be at risk from abuse. Because 1: children in "normal" families never, ever get abused and 2: of course being born with what amounts to a terrible birth defect means you're a peadeophile.

[clay-mans-maker.livejournal.com]

i...the....

that's Incredibly offensive.

and, this isnt a stupid (at least in intent) question but why hasnt it been changed yet?

[froodle]

The anti-adoption clause was taken out of the GRA before it was enacted. The mental illness thing... honestly? I don't know. I mean, it's a completely illogical definition, and yet the various legal and medical bodies concerned aren't making any major moves to change it, despite medical evidence that transsexuality is caused by a hormonal defect in the foetus, and is therefore Fixed Before Birth, and obviously not the result of mental illness.

Unfortunatly, given that it's the American Psychiatric Association that started the whole Gender Dysphoria = mental illness, and considering the current political climate in the US, I don't see it changing in the near future.

[clay-mans-maker.livejournal.com]

fucking americans.