Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

A footnote to the 2005-03-16 installment of Schlock Mercenary by Howard Tayler:

Note also that the correct term for 'a missile to be deployed against "anti-missile missiles"' is not "anti anti-missile missile." It's "anti anti-missile-missile missile." You're always supposed to have one more "missile" than "anti," because otherwise nothing will blow up. Granted, this information comes from civilian linguists, rather than from military sources. Military sources would almost certainly be using acronyms instead.

Didn't sleep well but did sleep some. Not feeling completely awake now. Dreamt that HCB was in a "battle of the bands" and I was upset/stressed because when I went to get dressed in my kilt my white socks were muddy. (Later, dream-inconsistency rewrote it so that they were just grey where the shoes would hide.) Also, for about half the dream (not consecutive), I was (pick your term...) GF, WBW[*], cisgendered female. And I drove a much bigger car than I currently do (size of the Catalina I drove two decades ago, but more Ford-looking than Pontiac, a darker colour, and more run-down). I'd gotten there hours before the rest of the band and was being chatted up by a nice bloke, which didn't seem unusual until I woke up -- I'm not sure, but I think that part was a minor rewrite of part of a sitcom I half-slept through in the past few days. Venue was large, grey/brown warehouse-looking space, and "stage" was one tine corner of the concrete floor. The parking lot was much more pleasant (but too small for that size hall, which I didn't notice until I started writing).

Stomach upset, throat slightly sore (really hating this allergy season, and we probably haven't gotten to the worst of it yet), still tired; not sure whether to roll over or go eat. Dream details already fading (I think there was at least one more aspect I'd planned to mention when I started writing) but world still looking a little surreal. Do have gig tonight but my garb is clean and it's a dance, not a battle-of-the-bands.

Anyone know the LD50 of loratadine? (More appropriately, LD01 or better yet TDLO, since 50% is crappy odds...) I want my sinuses, throat, and lungs back from the trees currently using them as orgy sites.

[*] "GF": "genetic fmale" (occasionally "GW" for "genetic woman"), though usually used in contexts where "born, raised as, and identifies as" are the aspects really meant, not actual chromosome tests. Was used in TV/TS chat channels and mailing lists when I spent more time in those places (might still be), where it was also sometimes used for "girlfiend". "WBW": "woman born woman", similar idea, but more often used in anti-trans contexts where a group wants to exclude MTF individuals from a women-only space. "GF" suggests (but does not explicitly denote) being cisgendered; AFAICT, "WBW" says less about gender identity than about current and natal anatomy, but I don't imagine all that many guys at the far-male end of the FTM spectrum try to get in in the first place ... do they?

And if you haven't followed a definition link from a previous entry, figured it out from context here, or learned the term elsewhere, "cisgendered" is the opposite of "transgendered".