It's 4am, do you know where your afunas are?

pauamma kindly reminds me that it is 4am. I hadn't noticed the time -- was absorbed by going through tabs that had been left open too long, and left open only because I knew I was going to click through lots of links and open up a ton of new tabs.

The upshot, however, is that I've now gone through all the archives in the Paciello Group blog, and have over twenty new tabs open for future reading through, despite skipping past some entries (mostly the ones which were status updates for support for $accessibility_measures from $software/$library, from more than a year ago).

Also I owe people replies back in fu -- something I meant to do, but got distracted *grar apologetically*.


A thought, a thought: trying to learn about accessibility is like trying to learn a foreign language (properly). Which is not the same as saying that accessibility is a foreign language (GNNN :(), but that there is a gap between ideal practice as written in the books, and actual practice as spoken in the street.

So, if you took Japanese 101*, that does not mean you're an expert in the language. And that does not mean you can ignore what a native speaker says, because that's what's in your book (or it's not in your book at all).

But also, um, do your homework? Learn the basics, try to figure out how things fit together before asking questions (and be prepared to run into cognitive walls (but please don't dent them with your head, thanks)). Though questions are good, both for what's explicitly said in the answers, and for what's never actually said because it's obvious (but that is another topic, for another time, because I'm not able to make any sense out of anything anymore tonight)

* I pick Japanese here, only because it was the foreign lang I took in university :)


Also, it really really bothers me that we took away the :focus outline with reset.css, and have yet to put it back.


I'm feeling kind of frayed, but in a good way. Like, not fizzling or crunchy or burnt out, but sort of ballooned and stretched thin around the edges, like I forgot to put a cap on myself. Which I think means it's past four, and I really should sleep...



I WOULD LIKE TO DREAM OF PONIES TONIGHT. Or maybe fish, with ponytails. But not LUSH ponytails. Yes.

Oh, before I forget: being counted

The census taker came by earlier this week, and I managed to discreetly ask to note down my religion as "none", instead of the assumed Roman Catholic. The census taker gave me this weird look, and asked to make sure she hadn't misheard, but otherwise noted it down with no protest.

I'm still culturally catholic, but I'd like to approach religion on my own terms, not just as something I was raised with, and don't believe in.

I feel good about having a tiny official note somewhere, saying that I'm not catholic. I don't think proud is appropriate for how I feel, because it's much less in-your-face than that. But: relaxed; not misrepresenting myself; not misrepresented. Yeah :)

(My mom would be disappointed if she knew that thirteen years of catholic education just managed to drive me away from religion, but I've always known/she's always suspected. The only thing that's changed is maybe I'm contributing to statistics which says that not everyone in the Philippines is Catholic -- and I know it is possible for good catholics to not agree with everything the Church says, but that's not where I am.

Also, we have Muslims, and we have many religious minorities, but somehow everyone seems to still believe that the Philippines is still 98% Catholic. I guess one person subtracted from the list is a tiny thing, but I no longer want to be miscounted through my own apathy.)