Well, folks, tomorrow is the day I'm having the gallbladder yanked, so I don't know when I'll be back here. In the meantime, you should go read Philobiblon's excellent review of the The Gender Politics of ICT, which collects the papers from the 6th International Women Into Computing Conference. I found that post on the second Carnival of Feminists, which you should also go look at. If you are interested in what the Carnival of Feminists is, go here.
Also, visit InkyCircus to find out how to get your Darwin Fingerpuppet, and learn about the holiest darn natural history museum in the U.S.!
And finally, don't forget to visit Manolo's Shoe Blog for some happiness. Ah, the boots for the Monday. If you are feeling strong, tour the Gallery of The Horrors.
Or maybe just read a good book. Easter Island is a most awesome novel. Jennifer Vanderbes has written a novel that every woman who ever worked in a science lab sometime in the last 100 years will love. It deals with what science can be like and why women might choose it, when joy is allowed to exist and given free reign in the doing of science; how science is peverted and damaged, how lives are injured and sometimes literally destroyed, when the role of joy and passion in science is denied and supressed. I feel like Jennifer Vanderbes has been listening in on every conversation I've ever had about science/engineering and feminism over the last 24 years, and then she went off and wrote me a novel about it all, one that wraps it all up in a meditative package that connects me to my foremothers and to indigenous peoples, that manages to teach me something new about botany, and that makes an argument for the rights of the disabled, all at the same time. And it's just a damned good read anyway. It is sooooo good.
So, off to the hospital then, and see you all again soon!
6:15:01 PM 
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