How I sprained my ankle

I'm walking today, sort of. I can stand, and hobble slowly around the house. Doesn't sound like much, but it's an enormous improvement! I just made myself a cup of coffee. Ahhhh...

( The tale of woe )

ETA: Just had a call from the doc. There may be a miniscule bit of bone flaked off. As I'm healing OK that's probably not going to matter - even if it did, he says there's not much they could do about it anyway!

Kate's Fannish Gender, part 3

I'm still curious about where the terms "fanboy" and "fangirl" originated. Here's the earliest posting I could find on Google Groups to use use the word "fanboy" (as well as "fangirl" as a synonym). I'm especially interested in the reclaiming of "fangirl" (or perhaps its adoption in a self-mocking / self-denigrating way).

I linked to some definitions in a comment - here are some more from the rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks FAQ (an obsessive, completist collector), urbandictionary.com, and an anime / gamer glossary. (I also spotted several sites online equating otaku with fanboy.)

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A tiny spider just ran out of my ear.

Laughing like a drain

Gakked from cherrypep: http://lostfrog.org