Day 47: The 5 Things of Eeyore

[truepenny]

I feel like crap today. Just had to say no to the Red Cross about a blood drive Friday because, honestly, I am in no shape to sustain another insult to my system. I hate that.

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My friend jaylake is undergoing liver surgery today as part of his horrible ongoing battle with cancer. On the one hand, this puts my measly discomfort in perspective; on the other hand, I hate that Jay has to go through this and has to suffer like this; and on the third hand, perspective does not fucking help. Not at the moment.

ETA: There is potentially good news about Jay's liver.

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Elsewhere on the internet, there is, of course, controversy. (That's what the internet is for, besides cat pictures and porn.) Intolerance is the wrong answer to 9/11, as it is pretty much always the wrong answer, and that's all I'm going to try to say about it today, when I know I'm not firing on all six.

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I know I should eat something, but I can't face it.

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Ace is still dragging its feet about the rights to The Virtu, and I still don't have an edit letter for The Goblin Emperor. I know this is the natural state of publishing (the wonderfulness of casacorona notwithstanding), but that doesn't mean I like it.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I try to give blood pretty regularly, and for that matter I'm a great Heinlein fan. But I have so far always avoided giving to a blood drive at an SF convention. Same argument; I don't think I need the extra stress on my system at that point. (I can usually use the excuse that I've given too recently; I don't feel bad about that.)

I don't think we can afford to tolerate intolerance. Which is not to disagree with anything you have said; but I find difficulties in precisely expressing what it is that we must and must not tolerate. Mostly it's coercion of others.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I felt that semantic trap closing around me, but I couldn't see a way out.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Some wise person on a Slacktivist comment thread once came up with a formulation that I have found useful for this: (Paraphrasing) "Tolerance is an active principal - tolerance isn't a 'Kick Me' sign, or a 'Kick Whoever You Want' sign, it's a 'No Kicking' sign."

I haven't found a good way to express this non-metaphoricaly, but it seems to be a good place to start.

-Nameseeker

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Eat, eat, you're thin! (channeling my grandmother.) Tea and buttered toast, if the weather there is anything like the weather here. (50 and cloudy and damp)

[inizitu.livejournal.com]

*sends non-creepy internet hugs, and virtual cupcakes*

I hope things begin to suck less.

If I could make a nice snuggly Eeyore show up at your door, I would

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

because, damn it, there really ARE days when it's appropriate to stand out in the thistle field with snow piling up on your back saying "Why?" and "Wherefore?". So there.

On something of a tangent, I did find myself thinking of dear Eeyore when I saw this Savage Chickens (http://www.savagechickens.com/2010/09/hypothalamus.html)... It's just a bit of silliness.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

*glares at Ace*

*glares harder*

continued well wishes as you keep walking (in your walking boot!) on the slow road of recovery.

Looking forward to reading The Goblin Emperor

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

I'm looking forward to reading The Goblin Emperor.

Re: blood donation, I sympathize. I can't donate because when I try, the blood doesn't flow out fast enough before it clots, and it doesn't fill the plastic bag (perhaps due to low blood pressure and small veins?) Anyway, after donating half a bag every few years, I've given up. I would like to donate, it's such a worthy cause.

Hope you feel better soon.

[(Anonymous)]

Ace is just being silly.

What is this Goblin Emperor thing, is it another book to look forward to?

Zafar

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

The Goblin Emperor is my next book, being published under my new pseudonym, Katherine Addison. It will be published by Tor next year, I think sometime in the summer.

[soho-iced.livejournal.com]

Plus if you're tired and haven't been eating you might get all the way to the blood thing and be sent home because your iron is too low - I know I've had a couple of close shaves despite being an enthusiastic meat eater.