Tonight, the high school I live near held its graduation ceremony, outdoors and complete with loudspeakers. So, even though it was warm enough to have windows & screen doors open, I had the house shut up so I didn’t have to listen to endless trite commencement addresses. Don’t the people who give speeches at graduation ceremonies realize that the teenagers suffering through those speeches won’t recall any of it for more than 15 seconds?! All those kids care about is getting that diploma and hoping their parents won’t make them get a summer job so they can party until college and/or other entrances into the Real World.

I decided to update my guide to polyamory, tidying up broken links and streamlining some of my writing, plus adding a couple of links (and an excerpt) from one of the best essays on polyamory I’ve ever seen, Poly People I Can Do Without. Absolutely priceless. (That essay spotlights 90% of the reasons I’m not cheerfully eager to embrace the poly community.)

Wonderfully wicked quote for the day: “You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”–Jessica Mitford

Oh, only eleven days until my birthday! But only three days until I get my next tattoo and a new kitten, so guess which day I’m probably gonna like better?

My long holiday weekend was fairly quiet, with Anxiety off at a medieval-recreation thing and Geoffrey playing a lot of Evercrack. Quiet makes me very happy. Here’s what I did all weekend:

• talked & laughed a lot with Jenn
• fussed over & watered my vegetable plants (which are getting huge!)
• got my house tidied up nicely
• smiled every time I recalled just exactly why my thighs were so achy
• watched a lot of the History Channel and Law & Order while crocheting
• watched a few atrocious SciFi Channel movies while cuddling with Geoffrey
• watched Brokeback Mountain (which was much better than I’d expected) while Geoffrey was busy killing stuff on Evercrack
• crocheted a lot & started yet another new project, which looks pretty nifty already
• chuckled every time I noticed the weather was chilly & damp, and thanked heavens I wasn’t foolish enough to be out camping in that!
• tried to think up names for the new baby (kitten, not infant!) before we get her
• talked & laughed a lot with Lyse

This has probably been the best Memorial Day weekend I’ve had in a decade, if not longer. No fuq’ing relationship drama, no idiotic SCA drama, no nasty drama of any kind. Just friends & laughter & love & contentedness — which I freaking well earned. Yay for getting what I deserve!