You've every cause to doubt me

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So . . . despite getting up for it at six-thirty this morning, we still don't have a bed. We have part of it upstairs. After several phones calls to the delivery service and the company we ordered it from, we are waiting for the rest. And hoping. And very tired. If we slept a combined total of three hours last night, I'd be surprised. I have said I'll be at home, awake, and near my phone until this situation is sorted out, however, so I think that's the rest of my day.

Some other things make a post.

1. Auditions! Upcoming! The Post-Meridian Radio Players are holding theirs next Monday and Tuesday for Tomes of Terror: Nevermore and Theatre@First at the beginning of September for The Trojan Women. Do you like Edgar Allan Poe? Do you like Euripides? I am afraid I cannot offer a crossover, but you could audition for both shows and it would almost count. Seriously, sign up now. Theater in Somerville this fall is going to be great.

2. Can I get someone with a liberal Christian perspective on this issue? (Called to my attention by shirei_shibolim, who wanted to double-check the Latin for "argument by shrimp." I believe we settled on argumentum a squillis.)

3. Robot Hugs says intelligent things about harassment. Also about scheduling and identity, but I kind of want to see the harassment one reblogged everywhere as a PSA. Also, because it never gets old: Cativan.

4. It wasn't on the dollar rack, but the Harvard Book Store has now furnished me with a used copy of M. John Harrison's Viriconium (2005), the omnibus. I faintly feel ashlyme was responsible.

5. Thanks to the AV Club, I am intrigued by the pilot of Outlander. Cunnilingus in a castle.

There had better be a bed and some sleep soon. I am tired of making lists.

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disrespectful of Jews (and Muslims!)

(True! I wonder if that would have been flagged for the author of the article if the popular pseudo-argument had been "God hates pork.")

and for the additional reason that people who use the argument by shrimp are often smugly self-righteous and don't actually have a good hermeneutic position of their own.

I am not entirely surprised to hear that. I was surprised to read it was a Christian tactic; it reminded me of Richard Dawkins on his eternal quest to prove that all religion is a bunch of inconsistent gibberish. Disprove one part of it, the whole thing falls apart, right?

why we believe we are exempt from Jewish dietary laws (it was basically a sop to Gentiles who were struggling to conform to Jewish culture and went hand in hand with that whole "no you don't have circumcise your adult men" thing).

Which I did not know, because I have very patchy knowledge of the history of early Christianity and the ways in which it differentiated itself from Judaism, and is one of the reasons I wanted a Christian perspective. Thank you!

There's a lot more I could say about American Christendom and the Law but that would take more than the seven minutes I have left, and would probably be a tangent.

GOOD GOD DO NOT BE LATE TO THE SEVEN-HOUR MEETING OF DOOOOOOM I AM SO SORRY.

I hope you get some rest soon.

Thank you. I hope the meeting is not as interminable as it could be!

*hugs*

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It has actually been going well and might not even warrant the extra ooos in dooooom. Two more hours. . .