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admin post! intro and policy
Apr. 15th, 2009 04:23 pmThis post has been backdated in a Virgoan organizational fit.
Me:
I'm a barely cisgendered youngish lady uncomfortable using the word "girl" for a responsible adult pushing thirty yet also terribly uncomfortable with the word "woman" for myself. I am, in fact, pushing thirty. I am married to a lovely and wonderful person I refer to here as "Pod". (I find our opposite genders incidental; I didn't stop being bisexual when I got out of college.) I'm a software engineer by trade. I work for a space agency contractor, writing research-enabling software for astronomers and traveling whenever they will let me. I've also worked in Office Space and for a video game developer. I like the astronomers best, because, well, space.
I write about heteronormative privilege and assumptions on occasion, especially when I find myself the unwanted and incidental beneficiary. I also write about feminism in terms of "the radical notion that women are people". I'm a second-generation American and kind of proud of it in a progressive activist free-speech Unamerican kind of way that doesn't change the fact I want to spend years living outside the country. I rarely listen to the radio, care naught for celebrity culture, and don't own a working television. As my bio states, I'm also an environmentalist nutjob tree-hugging pagan gardener, a hobbyist photographer mildly obsessed with the decay of manmade structures, and still a bit goth after all these years.
I use big words. For most of my public school education, I was repeatedly admonished for using big words on the premise that I must have been doing it to show off. My vocabulary is still recovering. My writing is practice. And when big words fail me, I resort to cursing like a sailor.
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Policy:
Subscribe to my ramblings or unsubscribe from them if you want; don't feel you have to ask or apologize. I will be happily surprised to see you and not offended if you choose to leave. I currently have no locked posts or filters here; I tend to use those for updates to a specific set of people I have befriended offline, and all of them are on a different blogging site. I have no access list policy. I have no idea what to do with the thing. This will eventually change, and I'll deal with it then.
If you mostly talk about fandom or media, even if we're friends offline and/or I think you are an awesome and wonderful shiny person based on our conversations online, I am probably not going to subscribe to your journal. This doesn't mean I won't sneak by and read your posts now and then; I do like to keep up with folks. I'm just overbooked on my automated daily reading as it is, and my interaction with fandom is best described as occasional binge-reading.
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er. That got a bit long-winded, but I think it's the basics. Ask me anything else you might want to know, and I'll try to answer.
Me:
I'm a barely cisgendered youngish lady uncomfortable using the word "girl" for a responsible adult pushing thirty yet also terribly uncomfortable with the word "woman" for myself. I am, in fact, pushing thirty. I am married to a lovely and wonderful person I refer to here as "Pod". (I find our opposite genders incidental; I didn't stop being bisexual when I got out of college.) I'm a software engineer by trade. I work for a space agency contractor, writing research-enabling software for astronomers and traveling whenever they will let me. I've also worked in Office Space and for a video game developer. I like the astronomers best, because, well, space.
I write about heteronormative privilege and assumptions on occasion, especially when I find myself the unwanted and incidental beneficiary. I also write about feminism in terms of "the radical notion that women are people". I'm a second-generation American and kind of proud of it in a progressive activist free-speech Unamerican kind of way that doesn't change the fact I want to spend years living outside the country. I rarely listen to the radio, care naught for celebrity culture, and don't own a working television. As my bio states, I'm also an environmentalist nutjob tree-hugging pagan gardener, a hobbyist photographer mildly obsessed with the decay of manmade structures, and still a bit goth after all these years.
I use big words. For most of my public school education, I was repeatedly admonished for using big words on the premise that I must have been doing it to show off. My vocabulary is still recovering. My writing is practice. And when big words fail me, I resort to cursing like a sailor.
*
Policy:
Subscribe to my ramblings or unsubscribe from them if you want; don't feel you have to ask or apologize. I will be happily surprised to see you and not offended if you choose to leave. I currently have no locked posts or filters here; I tend to use those for updates to a specific set of people I have befriended offline, and all of them are on a different blogging site. I have no access list policy. I have no idea what to do with the thing. This will eventually change, and I'll deal with it then.
If you mostly talk about fandom or media, even if we're friends offline and/or I think you are an awesome and wonderful shiny person based on our conversations online, I am probably not going to subscribe to your journal. This doesn't mean I won't sneak by and read your posts now and then; I do like to keep up with folks. I'm just overbooked on my automated daily reading as it is, and my interaction with fandom is best described as occasional binge-reading.
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er. That got a bit long-winded, but I think it's the basics. Ask me anything else you might want to know, and I'll try to answer.