The Report

Birthday - Walter Koenig (TV - Star Trek)
Battle of San Jacinto Day (Nicaragua)
Chusok (Korea)
Moon Festival (China)

I’ve spent the entire week pretty much incommunicado from everyone, so’s I can sleep at weird hours play moar Spoar* get some projects done and go to work. I have yet to figure out how to arrange my schedule around this damn inconvenience that is a job.

But the good news is, I finally managed to edit “The Squid, the Serpent, and the Scot” so that it goes in proper sequence after “Not Yet Born.” It wasn’t actually all that hard, but I’ve been putting it off. The good news is I managed to slide in some important worldbuilding exposition about how doctors function in, you know, SPACE. Bonus!

 

( Exposition! )

For the record, the catalyst for Stumbani’s interest in macrosymbiosis? A story in itself. It involves one of my favorite ubiquitous characters** and a blatant ripoff of a chestburster. They named it Walter.

Now I’m on to the new Doctors! story, which features a scene with a shoplifter. Exciting! But, you know, it’s a shoplifter! in! SPACE!!, which we all know automatically raises the coolness factor by 100.

Also, I’m working on some more doll clothes, and the debut album for Super Sekrit Doll Project FTW, doing some reading, and watching妹 frantically pack for college. I feel so productive.

How’s your weekend?


*Fun with Spore: 妹: Well, what are your plans for tonight?
AMELIA: The same thing I do every night, 妹: try to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
妹: Enjoy your game.

**One trio of characters shows up in all the varied stories in my head. They either have a whole lot of parallel universe doppelgängers, or they’re dimension-hoppers. I have never figured out which it is.

Hypocrisy in Motion

Welcome, folks, to Amelia's Political Blog.  It's all part of my fascination with sociology, I swear.

This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
September 13, 2008

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for an easy-to-understand example of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you, or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, who likes to “kick ass” if people mess with you, and who likes to “shoot shit,” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action. ...

It goes on ...

Tip o' the blog to kittikattie .