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So my parents, in their infinite wisdom, named me Joanna and my sister Josephine, (for the record my parents are/were named Jenny and John - they swear blind the alliteration of our names wasn't deliberate) and we have mostly gone through life being known as Jo and Josie. Every now and then there would be confusion when one of my sisters friends would take it upon themselves to shorten her name further and phone up and ask for Jo.

Only now a newspaper has confused the two names and I read the article knowing it's about my sister, but I had this small creeping feeling it's about me. I know it's purely because I know the Jo they are referring to is my sister - I don't normally have this problem reading about Jo's (in case it sounds as if I'm seriously egotistical ;-)) - but it was a very weird feeling.

If anyone's interested in seeing how my kids are growing, I've stuck a batch of photos up at flickr - here.

My friend isn't actually mentioned in this article, but her mother and father in law are, as is her husband.

RTD goes to Hollywood - Awesome webcomic on how RTD's move to Hollywood could go.

This post is in support of PHSE being taught in schools. Warning: Triggery for rape and gang rape.

Does anyone else read the 99? I'm up to issue ten atm moment, (waiting for next month to buy some more), and I'm really enjoying it.

And finally I am being secretly judge-y about anyone/blog/article that asks 'where were you during the moon landing?' without the slightest nod to the fact that a significant part of their audience hadn't actually been born then.

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Fuck.

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Firstly please tell me that someone has written Captain James Kirk(reboot)/Captain Jack Harkness. Because if no one has my faith in fandom has been destroyed.

Secondly I know when The Day After Tomorrow first came out there was a smattering of fanfic for it (albeit mostly crossovers placing other fandoms within the events of the film), but does anyone know of any fic dealing with the aftermath? What did America do with most of it's citizens refugees in Mexico? Long term do they find ways to live and making livings in the snow bound areas of their land? I want to know how the world has changed with the northern hemisphere reduced to snowfields? Please tell me someone wrote this.

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Jay Kenneth Griffiths. Born at 33wk +2 gestation, 3lb 1oz. Born screaming, so his lungs are in pretty good shape. (In fact they're talking about taking him off oxygen tomorrow). Unfortunately my sister is still pretty poorly, (pre-eclampsia is not fun) and thirty hours later is still in recovery. She is steadily improving though, she's just got to take it very easy.

She started off in the Bath RUH, where she's been since last week on bed rest. Only Bath didn't have the necessary NICU cot for the baby, so she was told she could end up anywhere in the south west. Cornwall, Swindon, Cardiff. Anywhere. Where did she end up? My local hospital, Abergavenny. ;-)

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I got married at 22. I have four children. I dropped out of A-Levels and didn't go to university. For the last eleven years I have gone by my husband's surname. I am a Stay At Home Mother.

None of this makes me any less of a feminist. None of this makes me any less of a person.

Anyone who thinks differently can go fuck themselves.

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Just off into Brecon to finally see Star Trek.

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I have a lithiumdoll! And a doccy! Or rather they have me because I am in Cornwall.

I gave lithiumdoll Kenneth William's eye, and there was Hugh Jackman's primal self. (And alcohol. But that's a given isn't it?) And I scared mostlyarmed with my wierd fanny fanfic. And doccy will be bearing my children. Did I mention the alcohol?

(I got nostalgic for X-men fandom around the time the first movie came out).

Now we're off to the Eden Project.

Byeeeeeeeee!

Doug has set up a SmugMug account and is planning to put his photos up for sale, only we're not sure how much he should charge for them.

Would you guys mind looking at the photo's in his gallery, and then answering the poll below. (If you could answer as if you liked them and wanted to buy a photo, that would be great. ;-) )

(All sizes are in inches)

[Poll #1386168]

So I have committed communities. Three of them. earworm, dreamfic and breastfeeding.

(Yep, that's a community for Dreamwidth fanfiction). ;-)

List of Communities on the Dreamwidth wiki

dw_community_promo is worth friending to keep track of new communities.

I want to totally re-write my bio on my profile, but everything I try to write sounds pretentious or humourless. The sad thing is I think if I had been reading it in someone else's page, I would have thought it fine.

Will have to have another bash at it tomorrow.

Have been pretty amazed at how quickly Amazon Rank fail has spread over my Reading Circle and Friends List. On my FL I had six posts in a row on it, including a post in a Torchwood comm.

*Well it wasn't like I spent all day in front of the computer, it's just I wrote the text of the post this morning, decided I needed a Hardison** icon, and only managed to finish over twelve hours later.

** OK Parker stole invite codes, Hardison submitted bug fixes and Eliot joined omnomnom *cough* *cough*