sun, sky, sleep.

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At the cottage. We have a little bit of internet, which is nice. I had some tiresome news, which was less nice. More tilting at the windmills of Swedish university bureaucracy, woot.

But I sat on the cliffs in the sun today and unraveled a couple of the really knotty thesis knots, and I played tennis and I cuddled with my cat, and I wrote about 800 words of a story, edited a friend's medical school statement that she sent me last week, and I got somewhere with the translation I'm working on (and will be paid for!). All in all, I can deal with the tiresome.

Also, my favorite meme is going around again.

Gacked from torakowalski:

Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures.

PS: ♥

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*hugs* I hope the news wasn't too bad? :/ Because I know that's kind of the last thing you need right now. ♥

Um. Okay, top five female characters to write (fannish, original, girls in RL or not), top five poems right now, and top five feminist writers/thinkers/theorists (if that isn't three separate lists).

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Oooh, those are all very good. I'm going to start with the first one!

Top Five Female Characters To Write

1. Veronica Mars
   
2. Z Berg
   
3. Laena Monroe
   
4. Lyn-Z Ballato
   
5. Barbara Gordon

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This one is a difficult list, because there are a LOT of them. But. Here is a list that mixes genres pretty heavily.

Top Five Feminists
1. Virginia Woolf, because she's funny and intellectual and still goddamn relevant
2. Evelyn Fox Keller, brilliant feminist science historian
3. Anne Carson, poet and translator
4. Jane Austen
5. Mary Woolstonecraft

And then a whole bunch of others. &feminists;

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...

Okay, that does it. As soon as I get my loan, I'm going to pay off my library fines and get out the uni's copy of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Fuck any of the reading I actually have to do, I've been thinking about reading this for a long time, and you just clinched it.

&Jane Austen; indeed. But I will be checking out the others too. Just, y'know. After Woolstonecraft.

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She is well worth it, she really is.