This and that.

The last days, while finishing that damn catalogue from hell, I started looking for something to read inbetween, because I craved fanfiction. As we recently saw a ST:TNG episode with cardassians, I happened to look for fanfic involving cardassians and indeed found some. There are especially quite some ff about Garak/Bashir, a pairing I do indeed enjoy, as I especially like Garak (from the few eps of DS9 I saw him in). What I found funny was that yesterday evening, when Thomas and I were watching four more eps of ST:TNG, there was also an ep with Bashir, as the Enterprise was visiting DS9 :D Funny! Also, this one ep he was in made me want to look for Data/Bashir, as it was also quite obvious, imho. But not today, no time today ... still need to finish the corrections of the catalogue. If there is time left afterwards I'll make more tomato jam or my taxes. And I have to prepare stuff for a family gathering (Thomas family) tonight.

The catalogue was really draining, but I slowly feel like I again have time for other stuff. It's really nice. And I really, really need to start inviting people to my birthday party, which will be in exactly three weeks, meep! The big 30 ... scary!

Also, something to be really happy and excited about: cos is going to visit me end of september, 2 and 2 days, as it seems ... I'm SOOOOO happy and so much looking forward to that! *bounce*! And a week before that I'll be in Sweden/Stockholm for 6 days with Thomas, also something I can't wait for! We are visiting friends, but we will also have two, three days for our own and I'm looking forward to that!

Two of my cousins are going to marry this/next year ... one of them is also having a baby (we'll, his soon-to-be-wife will have it). That's so ... strange! So grown up. See, I'm the oldest of the five grandchildren my grandparents have. One of the two who marry is even the youngest one of us five. And as I have no siblings, they are a pretty close part of my family for me, even if I only see them like once or twice a year. And it's not like we have much in common, but still.
I think I shocked my grandmother a bit with telling her that if I'm ever going to marry, it won't be in church and that my child is not going to be baptised. Poor her :-/ But then, she's not really christian, well, she is, but not in the 'going to church every sunday' kind of way, not even in the talking about god or praying kind of way, it's just, as she put it ... 'But it's done that way!' (it's = wedding in church, being baptised, ...). Oh well. Let's wait if I'm getting married at some point in the first place ;)

Also, I really miss zorn who is on a fantasy festival since 9 days ... but she's coming back tomorrow, so, yay! AND calliste will visit tomorrow and next week rattenmaus will be here and I'm so happy to see them again, too! So many lovely people! YAY!

Last but not least, a rare quiz, but with very fitting results:

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Gender-Liberal

You scored 100% Gender-Abolitionist, 100% Sexually Liberal, and 40 % Socialist

You are the Gender-Liberal. This means that you share qualities with both Liberal Feminists and Gender Abolitionists. Like the Liberal Feminist, you feel political change needs to be done on a small-scale level through legislative change, not necessarily through a massive destruction of class society through the adoption of an extremist socialist stance. You are also very concerned with sexual liberation, and feel that women should be free to do what they please sexually without criticism, just as men should be free to do. However, you differ from the Liberal Feminist culturally, because you see gender as a social construction that needs to be destroyed. Like the Gender Abolitionist, you realize that gender is often perceived as one's identity, when it should only be perceived as a small, insignificant part of that person. We shouldn't be able to say "This person IS a woman". Rather one should say something more akin to "This person HAS the physical traits of a woman". This way, we wouldn't be assuming someone's physical traits are a part of their identity, and we couldn't use this difference to oppress them or categorize them. In short, you advocate extreme cultural change through the destruction of gender roles, but politically you are less extreme, instead focusing on individual or legislative change as opposed to a massive change of ideology.

The other feminist types:
The Housewife, The Marxist, The Liberal, The Liberal Extremist, The Gender Abolitionist, The Radical, The Gender-Liberal, The Revisionist

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