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I got some writing done, both for the novel and for a short story. Played games, finally saw Matrix Reloaded and trying to decide if I really, really want Krispy Kreme.

The short story is the hardest bit, I supposed because the character I am writing as at once more educated and more plain spoken than I am. She also less angsty than I am. Really.

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Dear person on a mailing list I am on,

As much as I think things like September 11th are bad, when I read phrases like "liberal media" and how horrible it is that Dan Rather said some nebulous bad thing about Bush, I delete. I do remember. I remember hearing journalists tortured for saying the wrong thing in dictatorships.

I won't get into a rant about using tragedy to shut up people (oh, sorry, misusing freedom of speech). I won't get into a rant about anything like the USA Patriot Act being worst than anything Dan Rather, Wolf Blitzer, or I would say. I'm too nice for that. If there is something about this country I am proud of, is that I have a better chance of being a cranky cynic and surviving than in a lot of places. Believe me, it is a patriotism more sincere than some.

(I do want to travel, though. I do want to see other places.)

Meanwhile, I will enjoy the afterglow of a laughter-inducing game of the Late Late Show where I played a femme fatale-typed actress named Batsheva, who somehow got the part of a tough space gangster set to testify. I'll probably play more games soon.