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In the "Uh....." category: the Two Towers Protest. (Note that it refers to a petition at PetitionOnline, and that the maintainers of PetitionOnline felt the need to add a comment pointing out that the title of the movie came from 1954 and that the two towers don't much resemble the WTC ... if the title had been The Twin Towers there'd be more of a point.) So, is this serious, a too-subtle-for-its-own-good parody, or a psychology/sociology experiment?

Christianity Today says "Don't Let Your Kids Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer (But you can tape it and watch after they go to bed)", an article that makes several points in common with the Theologian of the Year article in The Door that I mentioned in a previous post.

Because it was mentioned recently by sometimes_nate, I re-took the Gender Test on theSpark.com. It told me I am "definitely a woman" with 86% confidence. ISTR getting a very similar answer the last time I took it, though it could take me a while to dig through the last several years of archived email to check. This led to my noticing a mismatch between how I talk about my gender identity and how I feel about it (described in the comments to Nate's post).

I'm wondering whether it's possible to archive all the comments I've made on LiveJournal, and posts I've made to shared journals, as well as all the posts to my own journal. I'm kind of partial to the idea of being able to keep my own archive of the things I've written for others to see.

I never made it to the doctor on Friday (nor to the December birthdays party I'd planned to attend) because of a headache bad enough that I didn't want to be on the highway. When I called my HMO's appointment line to explain and reschedule, the appointment nurse decided I needed to talk to a triage nurse, and the triage nurse (after putting me on hold to talk to a doctor) started sounding really concerned and asked wether there was anyone who could drive me to the Urgent Care center. I figured that Urgent Care wouldn't do much more than treat immediate symptoms (and I already have drugs that help, though they're probably not the optimal ones for this) and tell me to schedule a follow-up appointment with my primary doctor ... and two of those $15 appointment copayments add up to a lot fewer packages of Ramen noodles, y'know? So after I promised to get a ride to Urgent Care if I got worse or failed to get better, they gave me an appointment for, uh, about ten hours from now (gee, I should go back to bed).

I've been meaning to get the headaches looked at for a while -- they correlate very strongly with descriptions I've gotten of migraines, and I figured that's what they are, which means there are drugs that can help a lot (assuming those drugs aren't on my body's rather long "do something strange with that drug" list). But the triage nurse was starting to really spook me. Well, I'll finally be doing something about them, anyhow. (That's overdue. They've been getting more frequent.)