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Urgh.
It is 0430 and I am not asleep.
This after a weekend of not sleeping, and a last night which did eventually include sleep, but not a heck of a lot of it.
Not helpful.

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*blinks*

... nope, teh fic still warns for 'suicidal ideology'
... did they fic Marxism dead?

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Still awake.
Having thoughts that seem like Big Philosphy, but I suspect need reading when I haven't been awake around the clock before I can judge them even coherent.
Is quite annoying.

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I am awake.
I got to sleep after 0800 and woke up at 1145.
I shall sleep again later.

1200 seemed like a perfectly reasonable time to schedule the business of the day when I did it.

So I got up and put the dishwasher on. And I'm waiting for food delivery.
I went shopping yesterday but almost none of it was for me.

I have hiccups. I do not find this amusing. Though I probably would in other circumstances, for I hic rather a lot up at the front and it's sort of funny.

*hic*
*bounce*
*hic*
*bounce*
*sigh*

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My food is here and my hiccups have stopped. Yaay!

Also I could send stuff back when I found I already had last week's.
More ways Tesco delivering is handy. Twould be annoying to have carried it all home and find that. But Tesco don't mind.

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cleaner has been and gone
and house is really clean this time
yaay!

now I can go sleep if I want to.

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I'm reading more Serrano books by Elizabeth Moon and they are *shiny*.
They're full of women. Lots of different women. With distinct personalities. And different roles. And social networks. With other women. And their different perspectives come together to make things happen. And even the women who... I was going to say 'were rescued from' but it's more a case of 'got themselves out from with a bit of help from appropriate drivers'... the women from the most godawful oppressive patriarchal background are still women who Get Things Done. And there's ways the collaborate in their oppression - enforcing standards of behaviour on each other - and ways they rebel against it - enforcing standards on their men, drawing a line they won't be led past. And there's all sorts of other social structures around too. Different structures of power relations, between women and men, between different family names, between military and civilian, religious and secular... all sorts, and how they impact on each other. It's *awesome*.

Yes, I been starving for female characters. These books are banquets.

And then there's the treatment of disability. I started out with the book about the autistic character, which I loved. Did it right. But it's the way that there just are characters with disabilities scattered throughout the stories, and characters moving in and out of states others perceive as disabled, and people who are struggling to get things done while others treat them like idiots just because their voice isn't working... It's like, despite the spaceships and all, this is more of a world I recognise than I've read, well, possibly ever.

Bujold is another writer with plenty of good stuff in there.

But I'm really loving these books now. Specially since I've noticed them so late there's a ton to read :-)


Oh, and also? Space battles! Politics! Interstellar wars! Saving the day by being the only one there to see what needs doing and getting it done!

I love these books.