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[sofiaviolet]

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Today's lulz: letter from Glamour magazine attempting to get Mr. [Sofia Blackthorne] to subscribe. My legal first name is technically unisex (I was named after my great-grandfather), though in English-speaking cultures, Dominique pretty much female (although I wonder, given the number of times people have attempted to call me Dominic to my very cis-female face - can they not pronounce -que endings or something?).

Also, Ellie is eating all my Green & Blacks milk chocolate. :\

Links

• scottpilgrimslash: comment-fic-athon


• via holyschist: [Activist Modus Operandi] Methods of Communication


• tim: How To Fail Out Of Grad School Without Really Trying

  There's a saying that you should never take advice from the survivors, and I felt that way reading this list of reasons Ph.D students fail. If I interpret this article as advice, it's good advice. But if I interpret it as a compendium of reasons why students fail, it doesn't really capture my experience or that of other people I know who left grad school. One reason why is that the author attributes failure only to individual students, ignoring the important role that unsupportive faculty members and indifferent institutions can play in encouraging failure. As Barbara Lovitts shows in her book _Leaving the Ivory Tower_, there are disciplinary and institutional patterns to grad student attrition, suggesting structural reasons for why Ph.D students fail that cannot be reduced to random individual variations in character.

• via #dreamwidth: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names


• via rydra_wong: I love the smell of dreamwidth in the morning.

  Every day that you're online, scout around dreamwidth. Find one person you don't normally comment to and comment on an entry. Pick a community that looks cool or that you're a member of and don't normally post to/comment on, and leave a post/comment. Post something of substance in your journal. Start a conversation. Engage. Enrich the community.

Plans

Need to redo the purple on my hair this weekend, or maybe sooner if I feel like it. It's starting to fade significantly near the roots. Also need to go to the post office, since those bastards have stopped leaving international parcels on the porch. Also should install software updates and restart my computer, especially since it might fix the problems that exist between Adium and Facebook chat. Also also should order some tights for extended skirt-wearing season.

Comments

[gianna]

Haha my CVS card says I'm a Mr. too for some reason. I mean, Courtney can technically be a guy's name, but I've never personally known a male Courtney... >>

[sofiaviolet]

Heh. The weirdest misgendering I've experienced was over the phone, but I think that was the customer service rep reading their script a little too closely.

I really can't figure out why Glamour has Mr. in their system for me, since I'm pretty sure that they got my name/address from another magazine I do subscribe to, and I'm pretty sure that magazine has me as Ms. or Miss in their records.

[redsnake05]

My bank has been sending letters to Mrs Red Snake since I was eighteen. I still have not completely convinced them that I am actually unmarried. I think I would prefer Mr, some days. Also, I hope you get your chocolate back in time to enjoy it, not just look at the wrapper sadly.

[sofiaviolet]

*eyeroll* My mother has told me of the lengths she had to go to in order to avoid various institutions changing her name after she got married (which, IIRC, included refusing to deposit her paycheck until her employer issued a new one with her actual name on it).