She was at Starbucks today and someone offered her a domestic abuse hotline or assistance card.

NOBODY EVER DID THAT TO ME. I took it disproportionately personally.

When does she find out the test results?

Perkins and ND, best and quickest resolutions to you both.

Perkins and Drew: all best possible outcomes to you both.

Oh, yeah, I still hate people.

And I really hate the word heteronormativity.

I need to let go of some stuff.

And I really hate the word heteronormativity.

Conversely, I have a fondness for the word heteroskedasticity. It played a role in landing me my Philly gig.

I need to let go of some stuff.

Oh, my list of petty crap I hate that tons and tons of people do is long and amusing. [NOTE: this is not the whole list, just a representative sampling of my petty bullshit.]

• Saying/writing "anywho" (or "anyhoo" -- name your variation, and I loathe it).

• Referring to kids as "kiddos."

• Our intern's laugh. (Seriously -- it sounds like the fakest, most insipid, forced, dinner-party, gotta-laugh-to-be-polite laugh in the world. It's barely a step away from her just saying "ha ha ha." But in a high pitched voice.)

• The way the dalmatian MUST lean and rub against me if I'm near her. I'm so tired of her fur all over my clothes.

Ahahahahaha!!! While I was typing all that, I heard a weird noise like a cross between a hiss and a hork, and the black kitty just shot out from behind the open front door (she was between the door and the wall). I'm a little afraid to see what's back there that made her go from 0 to 60 in 0.5 seconds.

Oh, my list of petty crap I hate that tons and tons of people do is long and amusing. [NOTE: this is not the whole list, just a representative sampling of my petty bullshit.]

There's a gaming skew in my peeves. People who use rouge instead of rogue (seriously?), and for BSG, confusing Morale and Moral.

(My sharing my hatred of "anywho" with The Boy has led to him using it as much as possible, to see how long it takes me to go insane. Evil.)

Could I have more privilege to resent the presence of "hetero" in heteronormativity? I think it makes it sound like it's about heterosexuality, and it's not.

So, I need to let it go.

Also, I suspect I have learnt I may have been being naive about gender politics again.

I think it makes it sound like it's about heterosexuality, and it's not.

Wait, what? I thought it was. Or, at least, a social enforcement of heterosexuality as the ideal.

Or, at least, a social enforcement of heterosexuality as the ideal.

It's also an enforcement/endorsement of traditional gender roles, which has nothing to do with my heterosexuality, thank you very much.