Notes to People

Foleyartist: I would like your address and phone number. Where can I find it?

People back at Bryn Mawr for the semester: May I have your four-digit phone extensions, please?

Rush-That-Speaks: Are all your emails down? They keep bouncing back to me. Please email Gary; he needs you to write a recommendation for Carola and just generally wants to know you're alive, I think.

Earis: glad to know you're back from Greece! I kept thinking of you and Kitten during the Olympics and am glad you of all people I know got to see it.

Raki and Mouse: I miss you both badly; I have been a horrible correspondent. Please forgive me.

(no subject)

I am tired and crampy and so will not put anything cute in the subject line tonight.

The coolest tattoo I have ever seen has both all intrinsic meaning and none: it was an ad wherein one of the bison from the french Lascaux (?) cave was on the woman's left shoulderblade. Absolutely amazing and beautiful. I would get it, except, well, I can't for long and complicated philosophical reasons that have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with culture.

This evening I have successfully applied for one job in Cambridge and looked at lots of apartment listings.

Wayman, you like designing games. Would you help me design a card game with body parts?

Rush-that-Speaks, I didn't know you were going to publish your journal.

I kept forgetting to write this thought, but Rush-that-Speaks' and Syona Keleste's journal entries about the Alien Contact panel at Worldcon have made me think about it again, so I am posting it here:

I think the easiest way to explain the mindset of someone who is Otherkin is the fact that you are constantly getting culture shock from an alien culture. However, everyone else assumes you're a native so you can't act like a tourist, who has the perogative of ignorance or immunity and is therefore able to laugh in wonder--or speak out in dismay--at the differences. Sometimes you forget, even, that you're a tourist in that culture, but then something jogs your memory. And, like visiting a foriegn land where the people have a different mindset, it's very tiring but you get to see a lot that the people who live there all the time might not notice.

That's it.
And the fact that you sometimes get very frustrated because you lost your passport on your way here and can't get home.