Kitanzi's Colloquium

The guy who sits next to me at work is a real history buff, and puts up a dozen or so "On this day..." type bits every day for everyone's education and entertainment. I'm going to start putting up "History of the future" in the same vein, just cause I think it'd be fun, but I'm going to need to come up with a LOT of stuff if I want to keep it going.

So, just for shits and giggles, throw the History of the Future at me. "August 8th, 2010: Nessie comes out of the loch, demanding her share of the tourist profits." "Time capsule from 1910 is opened, reveals mummified fairies who were apparently trapped while trying to steal the contents." "Starlet sets new record for high altitude childbirth, delivering in the middle of a skydive with the help of a specialized team of midwives."

I'm sure folks can do much better than that. Anything you like, silly or serious. It doesn't have to be consistent with anyone else's idea of things, doesn't even have to be worksafe if you want to have fun with it (I'll just edit things around to fit what I need, but you all go nuts!) I WOULD like to not tie in with current politics in any button pushing or agenda pushing fashion, but otherwise.... whatcha got?

Really, I should take time to post about the good stuff in my life lately, and there's been plenty. Some I have, like the wedding, and some I haven't, like the Aphelion microcon and our second trip to the ren faire.

Right now, though, I'm stuck with endless, endless printing, copy, and coallation for this idiot project here at work. Naturally, my mind isn't very engaged in this and tends to drift. For some reason, today it's insisting on dwelling on every stupid or painful thing I've ever done, none of it to any useful purpose.

So, if you have any good memories of me or anything cheerful to tell me about in your life, or anything at all that makes you smile - share?

Which is to say my pants are utterly bankrupt, but we're home. Got home and to bed a bit past one am this morning, in fact, and we're both up bright and early for work today. Gaaaaaah.

Consonance was a great con, though, and I'm glad we went. The family visit went quite well, too, so I am actually more enthusiastic about the whole thing than my fatigue addled expression would make anyone believe. If I missed anything I should know about since last Wednesday - anything exciting, anything happy, anything that would make me wake up enough to open my eyes wide and yell YOU DID WHAT? - let me know, ok?

My friend joyeuse13 is looking for people to answer an interesting linguistics poll she's doing. Apparently most of her responders so far have been American - can I ask any of my non-American friends to help her out? (And any American ones who'd be interested, for that matter - the bigger the sample size the better, she's just hoping for some diversity as well.)

http://joyeuse13.livejournal.com/307199.html

There's been some news lately about a (very little) backlash against super skinny models, and I say amen, I'm all for that. I never have understood why curves have become a horror and a dirty word in fashion and advertising. Obviously your mileage may and does vary, otherwise all the bony models wouldn't be making money. I don't get it, but then I'm hardly their demographic anyhow and wouldn't be even if I lost 100 lbs - I don't do glamour, even though I appreciate it.

I'm curious about the general attitude, though. I know the people likely to be reading this are not very representative of the "mainstream", but I'm still curious. Which of these women would you call more attractive, and why?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=416341&in_page_id=1879

Edit: You may want to also read the article. The woman in the bottom photo was told by the top woman (and many other "experienced" people) as part of some TV reality wanna-be-a-model show that she was too fat for fashion. Insanity.
For more information, a rather interesting interview, and another model style photo of the woman in the bottom photo check this out:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=420299&in_page_id=1879&in_a_source=

(Thanks and credit to mosellegreen!)

I had an interesting discussion with a friend earlier today about the boundaries between public and private, and the non-obvious line where venting and asking friends for help and support shades into talking about someone else's business, perhaps even more so online. When does your need for support run into someone else's wish for privacy? I've had this come up in my life often enough that I've put a lot of thought into it, but I thought this would also be a good place to ask other people's experiences - please feel free to add anything you like in comments.

[Poll #830069]

Starting tomorrow, for about six weeks I will be working 7 am to 7 pm Monday through Friday, and 8-5 on Saturday. (Crisis at work, long story, no choice.) As may be obvious, that doesn't leave me a whole lot of time for other stuff, and I probably won't even try keeping up on LJ. Not that I've been terribly active lately anyways, but if anyone has anything they think I should see or would even really be sorry I missed, please have pity and point me at it!

Otherwise, see you all when I get back....

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want—good or bad—BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

Why not... however, I should also say I dunno how much LJ I will be reading in the next week or two, or if I'll be keeping up much at all. My surgery is rescheduled for a week from yesterday, and I'm doing about 2 hours overtime every night to try and cover the missed time - still temp, still no sick pay. As a result, by the time I get home I'm in a fair bit of pain and not really sitting at the computer much, and may or may not catch up in the morning. If I miss something you wanted me to know, please have pity and just tell me?

It's a very short work week, only three days long, and you just know no one's getting much done if they can help it. Well, a couple of my coworkers were trading amusing stories from childhood, and I stopped to listen when one mentioned that she was/is hyperactive. It caught my attention, since my ex F's kids were all diagnosed ADHD or ADD long before I ever met any of them. It was an interesting conversation, with her stories from the kid's perspective and mine from the (stepish) parent's perspective. We agreed that the condition tended to go along with high intelligence, and was often overdiagnosed but still a genuine problem. Then she casually mentioned she was pretty sure that I was ADD or ADHD as well, and the other coworker nodded vigorously, both of them listing what made them think so.

It's something I've considered before. I do have some of the indicators, but then I have some indicators for other things as well, and in my opinion, in *my* case, it doesn't matter. Sure, I twitch a lot and I get bored easily, am easily frustrated, and I multitask like hell, etc etc etc. In the end, though, these are things that I cope pretty well with and mostly turn to my own good advantage, so I'm not concerned with whether a diagnosis fits me, because I'm not looking to be treated for it, if it even is so.

It was an interesting conversation, not in the least because it highlighted to me how not-new an idea this is to me, and how little I'm actualy concerned about it. From what I gather, there's a spectrum of behavior which is part of what makes diagnosis of ADD and ADHD difficult *as a condition*. I'm curious (in a hopefully flame resistant fashion) what experiences you all have had with this, in whatever context? Please do keep in mind that I'm not even vaguely interested in arguing whether ADD and ADHD exist, valid and invalid courses of treatment in general, possible abuses of the diagnosis, or any of the hot trigger issues that abound with this. I just find this kind of interesting, especially since two rather casual acquaintances apparently think they see this in me as well.

I really need some more of one of the Lush shampoos (http://www.lush.com/ if you don't know what I'm talking about, it's some great stuff) but their shipping prices are a bit extreme. Anyone live near a Lush store who might be able to buy me a large bottle of Daddyo (I can pay back with check or Paypal) and ship it by any fashion for less than $12, do you think? Please?