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Well, here this goes again. I had a huge freaking post, but now I'm going to have to revise it since I accidentally navigated away and wasn't able to bring up the saved draft. FML.

This weekend was about as awesome as awesome could be. Take the most fun weekend you can imagine and multiply it by like, 500 and you MIGHT be close. kol came to visit, and we went to see Angie, tatterpixie, and thez in PA. SO MUCH GOOD FOOD. I wish we could have stayed their longer. All I know is that I will never see soft serve ice cream the same way again. Angie, your house is freaking incredible, and there is just such a great energy there. I can't wait till impersona comes to visit and I get to go back. I will probably show up every couple of months anyway with a bottle of wine and beg entry with big sad puppy eyes.

Just as awesome as PA was, the drive up and back with Kol was amazing. She had some kick ass songs that she played, and on many occasions had me erupting in giggles. YOU KNOW THE SONG, DUDE.

This weekend was awesome for getting my writing groove going again. I've got a shitton of tags to work on and stories to finish, but my mentality right now is BRING IT ON!

• Everyone's a Critic (Peter)
• Ich Will (Lynn)
• Go Go Fortress Rangers! (Peter)
• Two-Wheeled Land Shark Attack (Peter)
• Lunch and what happened after (Lynn)
  
• The Daemon Game: Troll Edition (Lynn)
• Red and Blue and the Big Blue Sea (Lynn)
• Acme Products are Crap (Lynn)
• Baked Goods (Peter)
• Itsy Bitsy Tighty Whitey Blowout Bonanza (Peter)
• Love on the Tip of a Sword (Lynn)
• Noir 2 (unnamed) (Lynn)
• Peter/Alice fluff (unnamed BUT ADORABLE) (Peter)

Italics = not my turn, but I'll take a look to be sure. So much to do, but YAY AWESOME.

Also awesome = crazy ideas for AU/CANON stories that came out of this weekend (Note, these are only ideas and really are meant to make people giggle. However - if anyone WANTS to make them official...):

• Kill Bill Mara - Lynn is the Bride, and Mara has stolen her Reed. :) MAJOR HOOK: DEON IN A SEXY NURSE OUTFIT!
•  Pat (the kitten from the bus story) should totally be a kleptomaniac kitty with a bra and underwear fetish. Mara and Lynn's skivvies go missing and end up in Dusty's room. Oh, look, Tasha suddenly shows up and finds them! Hehehehehe.
• Peter goes to Tasha for some badassery training, but Deon (and maybe Reed?) are trolling out of sight and making him lose his balance.
• While Reed is healing Lynn's broken leg, Lynn gets pissed at Mara for hovering and kicks her out of her room. MARA RAGE SMASH!
• Deon takes Peter to the bar (MAYBE THE FUBAR) to meet girls, but Peter just ends up getting trashed and silly.
• Val and Lynn take down a wig daemon at Loni's mom's boutique. So much for Val's fantasy about a blonde Lynn.
• I want to do a story with Raquel and Lynn, too, and am brainstorming ideas. They don't have much of an overlap, though. IS INTERESTING.

Okay. I think that's what I remember from what I had for this section. I also need to learn more about Marchlands and work on getting into Angie's game. I was seriously inspired by how knowledgeable everyone is about religious and other cultural differences over the weekend. It was such an open and welcome environment - I didn't feel bad for asking for things to be explained to me, but it totes made me realize that I need to be better read. So I will work on that! :)

Speaking of being better read, I'm going to post a bunch of links and some points from my Information and Human Rights class. These links are also kind of related to library science in general, but with more of a technical/digital spin to them. I haven't read all of these articles, but I plan to.

This is an interesting comment that came from last night's class during the discussion of the UN Universal Charter of Human Rights. I shared it with Kol, Sage, and Ingrid, but it's worth repeating. There are contradictions within this charter, i.e. the right to education, but also that parents have rights to decide what their children should do. For example, what about families that don't believe that their daughters should be educated? Is this a violation of human rights (in that education is being denied) or a victory for human rights (in that the importance of family and society decisions are recognized). It's an interesting thought, and when you expand it beyond that particular example, it becomes much more difficult to argue one point over the other.

I love hypotheticals like this. :)

Other interesting links I've come across in the past couple of days:
Should Overdrive sell itself to America's public libraries? I need to do more reading about this issue before I can really make an informed comment for or against this. I think it's a fascinating idea, and it'd be great to see public libraries own their digital content outright. Prices for renewing e-books subscriptions have gone up almost 700% for some libraries (will find this citation if asked for it), which is just plain ridiculous. Related: Crowdfunded e-books. Also: Digital Public Library of America

We Need Copyright 2.0 - Interesting oped about expanding copyrights. Also related to above series of links.

Articles I'm meaning to read:
Is Google Evil?
Twitter Censorship Causes Backlash
Privacy, Technology, and the Law - I'm totally going to mention this one in my next Human Rights class.
Apple's iPad and the Human Costs for Chinese Workers - This was mentioned in class, and it just makes me so freaking upset that these are the working conditions over there. And the worst part? It only decreases the value of iPads and iPhones by $50. Not to knock specifically on Apple. If this is the cost of our technology, I don't want to pay it. There needs to be something done. And anyway, with this considered, can we really be surprised that manufacturing jobs have been moved overseas? This is what happens when you cut out all regulation, GOP leaders.

Okay. I think I've posted quite enough for now. I should get to work or something.

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