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livThis week has been marked by lots of people trying to have emotional public ceremonies to say goodbye to me and wish me luck in my future. This is because it's generally assumed that I'm moving back to the UK in the next few weeks, but I keep telling people I don't have anything lined up and nothing is certain. I mean, I probably will move, but I'm not psychologically ready to say goodbye yet.
I've been working on a grant application due next week, progress is not as fast as it could be, but I'm plodding along, and had a useful discussion about it with my boss. I've been procrastinating from it by writing lots of simple Dreamwidth patches, though. I'm particularly proud of this one, because it fixes a bug that was really annoying me (page summary only showing the name of the person who posted if the entry was in a community) and required stretching my coding ability to get the logic right.
Monday and Thursday I had committee meetings, which were useful in spite of the not quite relevant goodbye speeches. Friday night I went to shul for a Progressive service, which for once I wasn't leading. More goodbye speeches, but a very nice atmosphere at both the service and the meal afterwards. SA wanted to leave early-ish, so I joined her and we ended up wandering around town a bit because we didn't want to stop chatting.
And then today I went to a BBQ at her parents' place. The BBQ ended up turning into an indoor meal since the weather looked slightly dubious, but it was really nice. I have met most of SA's friends, and get on well with them, both the Jewish and the non-Jewish crowd. A frightening proportion of them have toddlers named Samuel, though! Someone brought home-brewed plum wine, and it was ever so jolly and convivial. I managed to catch up with Joanna, whom for various reasons I hadn't seen since before Pesach. We got into an involved discussion of technical biology stuff, pausing to explain things in layman's terms to other people who happened to be in the conversation at that point. It was really great bouncing ideas off eachother, both on the professional level and on the teaching level.
Anyway I got a shock towards the end of the afternoon, because it turned out the party had been arranged in my honour, in order to say goodbye and wish me well in my future and express regret at my leaving Sweden. I was very touched, but a little caught off balance!
Meanwhile, some great links about the controversy with the new edition of the DSM, the mental health bible for the US healthcare system, and how it deals with sexuality.
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juliaserano expresses concern about the paraphilia category.
auntysarah gives a snarky summary
siderea has a much more positive take. Be sure to check out the comments where she directly addresses the worries expressed by the trans community, and gives some really good explanation of how the US mental health system works.
I've been working on a grant application due next week, progress is not as fast as it could be, but I'm plodding along, and had a useful discussion about it with my boss. I've been procrastinating from it by writing lots of simple Dreamwidth patches, though. I'm particularly proud of this one, because it fixes a bug that was really annoying me (page summary only showing the name of the person who posted if the entry was in a community) and required stretching my coding ability to get the logic right.
Monday and Thursday I had committee meetings, which were useful in spite of the not quite relevant goodbye speeches. Friday night I went to shul for a Progressive service, which for once I wasn't leading. More goodbye speeches, but a very nice atmosphere at both the service and the meal afterwards. SA wanted to leave early-ish, so I joined her and we ended up wandering around town a bit because we didn't want to stop chatting.
And then today I went to a BBQ at her parents' place. The BBQ ended up turning into an indoor meal since the weather looked slightly dubious, but it was really nice. I have met most of SA's friends, and get on well with them, both the Jewish and the non-Jewish crowd. A frightening proportion of them have toddlers named Samuel, though! Someone brought home-brewed plum wine, and it was ever so jolly and convivial. I managed to catch up with Joanna, whom for various reasons I hadn't seen since before Pesach. We got into an involved discussion of technical biology stuff, pausing to explain things in layman's terms to other people who happened to be in the conversation at that point. It was really great bouncing ideas off eachother, both on the professional level and on the teaching level.
Anyway I got a shock towards the end of the afternoon, because it turned out the party had been arranged in my honour, in order to say goodbye and wish me well in my future and express regret at my leaving Sweden. I was very touched, but a little caught off balance!
Meanwhile, some great links about the controversy with the new edition of the DSM, the mental health bible for the US healthcare system, and how it deals with sexuality.
juliaserano expresses concern about the paraphilia category.auntysarah gives a snarky summarysiderea has a much more positive take. Be sure to check out the comments where she directly addresses the worries expressed by the trans community, and gives some really good explanation of how the US mental health system works.
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Date: 2009-05-10 11:29 pm (UTC)HAY I NOTICED THAT and I thought "yay, someone's fixed that, how nice" and it was you!! wow!
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Date: 2009-05-12 09:40 am (UTC)