{"id":2013,"date":"2004-05-10T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T07:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/05\/10\/2013.html"},"modified":"2004-05-10T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T07:12:16","slug":"gcf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/05\/10\/gcf\/","title":{"rendered":"GCF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Windows, there's a type of error called a General Protection Fault, also known as GPF. I personally sometimes experience a different type of error: the GCF, or General Coping Failure. Today's GCF had the usual symptom: a desire to curl up into a ball and hide, and let someone else do all the coping for a while. Being a grownup has many advantages, but with great power comes great responsibility, as they say, and sometimes it's easier to let someone else be the grownup.<\/p>\n

Anyway, eventually the combination of sunshine, food, Kam, and a couple episodes of Alias<\/cite> resulted in a more or less full recovery.<\/p>\n

The sunshine, sadly, had the side effect of sunburning both my legs. You'd think I would know better by now. I'm applying lots of aloe vera gel.<\/p>\n

While I was sitting in the sun, I read the rest of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis<\/a>, which is quite good, though pretty depressing. Definitely recommended.<\/p>\n

Unrelatedly: thanks to those who've pointed out the various recent links to the SH<\/cite> \"Stories We See Too Often<\/a>\" page. I gather it appeared in Making Light the other day, then BoingBoing, and now Neil Gaiman's blog. I'm always pleased when people like that page, but also a little embarrassed, 'cause I feel like I should make clearer that it's not meant to be a canonical list of Bad Stories, just a list of stories we see a lot of. And authors have started paying attention to it, so we see a lot less of most of those stories than we used to, so in a sense it's a sort of self-negating list.<\/p>\n

We do occasionally get stories with cover letters that say \"I know this plot is on your stories-we-see-too-often list, but this version of it isn't the same as the ones you see all the time.\" Sometimes that turns out to be true; sometimes it doesn't.<\/p>\n

This paragraph would be where I would put a pithy summing-up and conclusion, both witty and profound, if only I had such a thing. Instead, it'll just be where I say good night and head off to bed. Tomorrow, they tell me, is another day; I hope they're right.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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