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I took a bunch of communications courses in college, and many times, there are differences between the way women and men communicate. Not always, and not always significant, but there are different patterns to word use etc.

So I was amused by this:

My journal says I'm 54% masculine.

What does your LJ writing style say about your gender?

LJ Gender Tool by hutta

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Weathered the storm last ngiht at rdhdsnippet and scherzoid's house. Much nicer to be with friends than alone. Took the kitties with me, and that was a loud and growly mess. Beta, who is usually so easygoing seemed freaked out by the other cats, and Oblivion, who isn't bothered by anything was absolutely freaking out last night. Coming home was an adventure. Rt. 1 south of the Beltway was (might still be) closed, so I came up Fairfax County Parkway...where almost all of the lights were out. Old Town is flooded.

Power came back just before 1 AM...woke me up, too because I'd apparently forgotten to turn off some of the lights after it went out last night. So what's a girl to do, but get up, catch up on livejournal and e-mail...you know the usual stuff. (And you can't beat coming home to an e-mail from someone wonderful that contains the subject line "Hey Goodlookin")

Still under a boil water order...not sure if things are actually contaminated, or if it's just a precaution, but I'll wait until they lift it to do dishes etc. (This wasn't exactly unexpected, and is the reason I ran the dishwasher the night before the storm.)

The silence in the building was amazing...it was nice to sit outside and look at the sky. I have beautiful sleeping cats. I made it through the storm unscathed, with two days off of work. And friends who are wonderful.

Yenta! [1]

( follow the cut tag to find out what my mother has done now... )

I'm obligated to at the very least e-mail this guy. Which is uncomfortable...I'm sure I can find something to write, but still.

[1] For those of you not familiar with the term yenta...it can mean a few different things, but among the uses for it are matchmaker. It also means a woman who gossips, but that's not quite as nice.

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Thanks guys, but I still think I have to write a "Sorry, my Mom is an idiot and I'm not interested," e-mail to this guy.

It was manipulative of her to do it in the first place, and when I spoke to her on the phone, she was very apologetic. If I'd been living at home, she'd have done something equally manipulative that wasn't quite so easy for me to get out of. This is mostly harmless, it takes little or no effort to write that kind of an e-mail. It would be embarassing to her if I didn't, and possibly really rude and hurtful to him.

There's an old Lea DeLaria bit about how her parents keep inviting men over for dinner, pretending to ignore the fact that she's a lesbian, because if they invite enough men over, she'll eventually find the right one. This kind of reminds me of that...

So, fj

You need to stop showing up in my dreams.


Every few months, you make an appearnce in my dreams. Night before last was the most recent one. We were driving in a car, you, me, another woman, and another guy.

The dream was about you, introducting me to an attractive man, with brown hair, who I made out with, and really liked, and we got along well and so on and so on...and then later when we wanted to make out again, he decided his penis was sore. So we did other things.

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Movie..

I think I need a movie.

(Which is a good change from the need to bake brownies which I successfully defeated earlier today, since I'm the only one home and brownies on Monday when I took them to work wouldn't be that good...)