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[butterfly]

I've been up all night.

Watching Stargate music vids and reading Stargate fic. I've still only seen three episodes, but I know all about Abyss. And Meridian. And those should probably be reversed.

I am very much in love with the beauty of Daniel and Jack and Daniel&Jack. Daniel in the Abyss stuff? In that off-white sweater? Gah. Very hot, that guy.

I'm very much looking forward to getting to know these people.

On the subject of non-Stargate things, I'm leaving today around three-ish to go to my mom's so that we can all go to Klamath Falls for my brother's graduation. I am so damn proud of him. He did a five-year program in four years and he has a job with Intel in California and he's my brother. I just have this aching sense of wonder about it. My brother and he grew up so smart and determined. He's such a wonderful guy and he's my brother. I only have the one, you know.

So, I'm leaving today and won't be back until Sunday. I will miss you all muchly. I'm bringing along a notebook and plan to write out some story things -- I actually have all of Diamondback planned out, I'm just iffy about certain things. And then I've something else I'm working, but that's too tentative to mention. Only I just did. But obliquely.

I just... had something of a not-good night, so I spent the rest of the night making myself feel better via fandom. And it works so much better than other things. Too bad I can't take fandom to work with me.

Anyway, I'm off to stay awake and to buy my brother a graduation present (I actually have something in mind, but haven't actually purchased it yet, for I procrastinate mightily), then I'll be leaving.

Edit: In utterly random news, I've found my old tap shoes. The ones that stopped fitting ages ago but that I couldn't bear to toss or give away.

They fit now. I was very surprised.

Brief aside: Was displeased by the claim in one of the essays in BtVS and Philosophy that grief was a purely human emotion (well, there was the 'probably' disclaimer, but the author appeared to believe that it was correct). They obviously know nothing about elephants, who clearly grieve and quite deeply. And that wasn't even an important part about the essay, but it bothered me (obviously, or I wouldn't be chattering on about it).

I spent the better part of five years obsessed with the idea of becoming a zoologist, so I know whereof I speak.

Comments

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, feet are funny things - Mine grew by 2+ sizes - 5 and a half to 8 - after I reached 30!
And yeah, people make such sweeping and annoying speciesist generalisations its gobsmacking sometimes. I'm pretty sure most if not all primates grieve for loss of infants or loved ones, and what about dogs? Parrots? Its rather worrying. It makes you doubt whether anything a person says has any value when they come out with such a load of crap.

Congratulations to and on your brother.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Feet are odd, indeed.

Thanks. Now my brother'll be in town for the next couple of weeks, which I predict will be interesting.