I just realized I never posted anything yesterday! :( Sorry! I go and announce a schedule, and then I don't even stick to it. As soon as I'm done writing this I'll post Toil & Trouble 15. And I'll go ahead and post again on the 25th, so as to make up for screwing up my schedule like that.

Can you believe, that I totally forgot it was time to post something? By the time I got home yesterday I was totally washed out, and I still had to walk the dog and make dinner. After that I was really wiped out!

I rode out yesterday to do my weekly shop at the supermarket, and being a sad tart I did my usual trawl through the cheapo DVDs. I came across one called "Freebird", which is a British biker flick. People go to the Black Mountains ('Cold Feet' visits the Black Mountain, a different place)where Welsh is spoken by two boys, one of whom is clearly a Gog (North Walian) and the other clearly either speaks Welsh as a second language or has worked hard at learning his lines, but sounds like a Sais.

Here's something I ran across today in my daily surfing. Seems like someone has leaked some plot notes from the proposed Alien: Prequel movie in the works. In the Spoilers are details that sound like the script writers have been reading TG fiction. Here's the link with the Spoiler warning. Personally I'm guessing this isn't the real thing, but amusing at least to me.

http://blastr.com/2010/10/major-spoilers-ridley-sco.php

Hugs!

Grover

This is pure gold, imho.

It's either useful or humorous (or maybe both), depending on your needs at the moment.

The Female Stereotype Flowchart [link].

I could stare at it for hours... giggling.

You may vaguely recall a story I wrote a while ago called "The Genie". Somehow I got this crazy idea in my head of recording myself reading it...

...so at 5:30pm today, trying to ignore the fact the temperature was dropping from 8 °C to 3 °C (hence the thick coat!), I sat at the edge of a local monument and did the deed.

The updated story chapter can be found here: Chapter 3

I received a response from Margaret Cohen, the therapist in LR that I contacted last week. She was very friendly, and gave me the name of another therapist that might be a little closer (I'll have to check after I post this :-))

I'd be lying to say I'm not petrified to take this next step. It took every ounce of strength I could muster just to contact Margaret, but she says Mary is a terrific therapist, and like I said, she came across as very friendly, so I'm going to gather my nerve and write to her.

I had a real de-ja-vu moment today while travelling home by train.

A passenger a few seats away was talking on a mobile, in doing so mentimed a friend by the name of Gaby and that got my attention.

The next bit of wierdness was that this Gaby wanted to know where to get some Matchbox toy cars.

By this time I was half expecting the next topic to be about cycling !

Since yesterday, my stories have received 117 total hits on them. While I'm pleased by the number of hits, it's very unusual to get that many hits on old works in one day, and I wonder if there isn't someone out there doing this on purpose? Numbers are fine and all, and I thank anyone who has taken the time to read my stories, but false increases are just that...false increases. Since there are no additional comments to accompany these increased numbers, I have to assume that they are false.

Study: Anti-transgender bullying alarmingly high

by Hannah Clay Wareham
Bay Windows
Sunday Oct 17, 2010

More than half of transgender or gender non-conforming people who experienced
bullying or harassment have attempted suicide, according to a recently released
study.

The National Transgender Discrimination Survey, conducted by the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality,
revealed that 41 percent of respondents had attempted suicide, compared to a
national estimated rate of 1.6 percent.

The extremely large picture associated with some of my comments as part of my signature line following some stories is not of me and I did not post it. I am sorry for any inconvenience the pic causes readers, but someone else in some way I don't understand must have gotten into my account and changed the link. I have now eliminated any pic link from my BC account and have changed my screen name, e-mail address, and password.
Jezzi Belle Stewart

Last night, I had a odd dream.

I had gotten a job as a security guard, and someone i knew from my real life job gave me a lift to a bus stop.

The bus turned out to not stop there, but I figured I could walk to somewhere where I could make a connection.

I then found myself cutting through a small shopping center, and my daughter appeared, and I had to cut her looking around short in order to try and catch a bus.