my paper is finished, but i can't sleep!

I wonder if part of the reason why writing explicit Wilby Wonderful fiction feels so odd or sometimes even wrong is not only the quiet mood of the movie -- but maybe more explicitly the attitude the movie has towards sex itself. Of the three main storylines, all of them can be basically boiled down to a journey from a negatively portrayed sexuality to a nonsexual intimacy. We have the climaxes all in a row at the end: kind words and walking in tandem; hair stroking and a hug; the tenderness of cupping each other's faces -- all from the beginning points of infidelity, insincere manipulation, and dirty illicit fumblings. No wonder it feels so strange to go back to sex in our stories: it's exactly what the movie has been moving away from.

On the other hand, of course, I don't think most of us buy into the implicit message here: we all want them to have sex and intimacy, both together.

not panicking yet!

People, I am in a tizzy, and I ask your advice.

I have a paper due this afternoon. This morning, I went to print it out; it printed one page and then jammed. I fixed the jam, and it said it was continuing to print. It did nothing. Since then, that print job has been in my queue, listed as "pending." Nothing I have done in the hours since has changed this. I tried disconnecting the printer from my laptop. I tried restarting the printer. I tried restarting my computer. Attempting to cancel the print job changes the status to "Deleting - Printing", where it has now been for many hours. Trying to print the file again does nothing, as it simply goes behind this job in the queue, and this job will never finish.

Do I have any options here besides emailing the professor to see if she will take it as an email attachment?

EDITED TO ADD: CRISIS AVERTED. Sometimes doing the same thing over and over and flailing helplessly DOES work! Good to know!

(Another fun fact about Erica's Day in Academics: my linguistics professor apparently decided to just not show up for the final this afternoon. As in, the entire class sat in the empty silent classroom for over an hour before someone ran down to the linguistics department to ask them what we should do and they sent us home. The working hypothesis is that she thought the exam time was 3pm and not 1pm, but considering how many million times she reminded us during the last class to double-check the exam times on the website, it is not a particularly good excuse.)

hot damn!

( Ray is also pleased that I have survived finals week intact )

look, stuff

I bet you guys didn't even KNOW you were missing random Victorian portait photography from your icons, did you? It's a good thing I am here!

20 icons from Julia Margaret Cameron's photography, 1860s and 1870s, behind cut tag.

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