love.

hey...

the foursquare that has our only *written* collaboration ]to date[ is now in the world. it has other cool ladies, too. Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney; Sharon Harris et al.; o. hunt & Cover valentine by Krista Stout .

we leave for a visit to NC & Tony Tost Thursday! we are excited! &... ???

i've decided to make myself a t-shirt that says

a self-complicating assertion of convoluted cosmologic.

thank you.

new news

our concerns regarding North Carolina & Duke have been taken on & up & tossed away. we have received MANY emails of support & welcome from Duke PhD's, Durham/Raleigh residents, & Poets. we feel really good about going there & everything we've been hearing. we are especially excited because Tony Tost is attending Duke & has already offered us a great deal of his [& his wife's] hospitality. [& Chris Vitiello is in Durham, too.

so. we are about 95% sure that we will be moving to Durham, NC in June. [maggie has already asked me five million times if i've sent off job applications & arranged interviews with Duke & UNC MBA programs.]. & also we have made arrangements to see some houses while we are there next week.

of course, if there is some discrimination against small, blind, cross-dressing, Percy Poodles... then it is all history. the whole plan. no PhD is worth losing Mr. Poods.

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in other news, i am happy to see that suzanne stein has joined the blogging world as a blogger over there with stephanie young. there was a little movie featuring the two but i see that maybe it has been removed or my computer is lying to me? hmn...

in any case... welcome s. i hope it isn't the only way we get to see you before we leave.

we are both

in A Journal of the Arts, Issue Three: Queering Language

along with some other amazing, awesome, & queer [& not queer] queers.

the trouble with North Carolina

yeah... it seems really great. beautiful, cheap, Durham is Democratic & liberal in the majority....

but.

but.

we have no rights in North Carolina.

i was just looking into the laws there...

i didn't expect to find Domestic Partnership laws for us Homos there... [& i was not surprised]

but we aren't protected from discrimination at all. AT ALL.

housing, employment... it isn't even a hate crime to beat us up or kill us.

WHAT'S UP NORTH CAROLINA?

so. yeah. that just doesn't make me happy at all.

i expected SOME protection.

o, but they have an LGBT Film Festival & a Parade.

wow.

this is disappointing. very.

& frightening.

is ANYBODY out there reading this? is it dangerous to be gay in Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh?

because it seems risky.

i wasn't expecting anything like here in SF.
but... NO RIGHTS?

WTF???

maggie, me & the PhD

So far Maggie has had a phone interview w/ Northwestern, been waitlisted at UPitt & has

gotten into Duke. & Duke is offering a pretty sweet deal.

YAY MAGGIE!

we are flying out there March 1- 4th to check it out... see if the Poods & i can live there for 5 or 6 years....

wow.

it seems like we are on our way out of the Bay Area... unless Berkeley gives her a SUPER DEAL...