plans and consultations
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sfred: English/Welsh folks (it's a devolved matter for Scotland/NI) may be interested in the consultation about allowing opposite-sex people to convert an existing marriage to a civil partnership, and ending the right for same-sex people to convert the other way (the former on the grounds that people might have gotten married who would have preferred a CP were it available, and the latter on the grounds that a) anyone who got CPed & would have preferred a marriage has had plenty of opportunity to switch now, and the trans issue no longer applies if you can continue with a CP after changing gender). Consultation ends 20 Aug, and took me 5-10 min to fill in, time mostly taken with reading all the stuff they've written before each question as the questions themselves are all yes/no/don't know with no text boxes.
Tomorrow I am off to Worldcon! I have not packed yet, and I am out visiting friends with L this afternoon and watching Stranger Things withdogrando tonight. But I do have a list and I put a wash on this morning which is now drying in the sunshine (glad today isn't yesterday...) so I'm sure it will all be fine.
This week I have mostly been recovering from holiday; trying to get some work done between holiday 1 and holiday 2 (to the extent that Worldcon counts as 'holiday'; it will be lovely but also very very full-on); and writing fic withlaurashapiro (collaboration on writing being mostly a new thing for me[0]) which is proving to be lots of fun.
Realised last week that L has started biting his fingernails, which I fear is a habit he has picked up from me, whoops. We have made a Pact that we are both going to remind each other not to if we see each other doing it. I'd really rather he avoided solidifying it as a habit if possible because these things are way harder to ditch than they are to acquire :/
[0] I did co-write that Purple Prose chapter with Grant, but that was a very different sort of writing.
sfred: English/Welsh folks (it's a devolved matter for Scotland/NI) may be interested in the consultation about allowing opposite-sex people to convert an existing marriage to a civil partnership, and ending the right for same-sex people to convert the other way (the former on the grounds that people might have gotten married who would have preferred a CP were it available, and the latter on the grounds that a) anyone who got CPed & would have preferred a marriage has had plenty of opportunity to switch now, and the trans issue no longer applies if you can continue with a CP after changing gender). Consultation ends 20 Aug, and took me 5-10 min to fill in, time mostly taken with reading all the stuff they've written before each question as the questions themselves are all yes/no/don't know with no text boxes. Tomorrow I am off to Worldcon! I have not packed yet, and I am out visiting friends with L this afternoon and watching Stranger Things with
dogrando tonight. But I do have a list and I put a wash on this morning which is now drying in the sunshine (glad today isn't yesterday...) so I'm sure it will all be fine.This week I have mostly been recovering from holiday; trying to get some work done between holiday 1 and holiday 2 (to the extent that Worldcon counts as 'holiday'; it will be lovely but also very very full-on); and writing fic with
laurashapiro (collaboration on writing being mostly a new thing for me[0]) which is proving to be lots of fun.Realised last week that L has started biting his fingernails, which I fear is a habit he has picked up from me, whoops. We have made a Pact that we are both going to remind each other not to if we see each other doing it. I'd really rather he avoided solidifying it as a habit if possible because these things are way harder to ditch than they are to acquire :/
[0] I did co-write that Purple Prose chapter with Grant, but that was a very different sort of writing.