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Somethign to pass around - a Vancouver polyamory group is looking for folks to step forward and be "intervenors". Basically, they want folks to go on record as living in poly households. They want folks who have more than one partner that they live with.

Polyamory in the News: Canadian legal action: a call for polys to testify

I should be in bed.

I am waiting for the "nooooooo!" scene in Revenge of the Sith to come up on Spike before bed.

Yesterday, I worked for 16 hours. I was not on-call, but got called anyway. Today, there were many meetings, and caffeine. If this continues, I will have to force my manager to promote me and give me another raise to compensate me for being effectively on-call all the freaking time.. Also, I should quit. Anyway.

Today was the 2nd week in a row of having Body combat class at the gym, with only one other attendee besides the instructor and myself. It's good for me to have someone else push me, especially when work keeps ruining workout nights. I hit the happy endorphin place today.

We've got a chest freezer now, and keep buying cheap local produce to freeze for the winter. My Evil Corporate Masters have boxes of peppers on for $8 right now. I bought two. I should stop buying stuff soon.

Apparently, I am in a good mood, and reading Lj and FB keeps giving me squishy compersion feelings. Y'all are so cute!

Did I mention I that I should be in bed?

I finally watched the documentary the CBC aired a little while ago on polyamory. Make by a UK crew, and using two US poly families, I think they did a decent job, considering that they only had an hour. They focussed mostly on heterosexual, long-term committed relationships, and glossed over a lot - but they only had an hour. Neither of the two families they shadowed quite matched what I usually see among poly folk I know, though the first was pretty close. The second family was.. well, a "dominant" man with a wife, and two live-in girlfriends, one of whom was clearly not poly by nature, but lived there anyway.

As presented, a poly life really doesn't seem like it is worth the trouble at the best of times, and the second family gave me the wiggins a few times. The film left out any sense of a polyamorous community - both examples of new people being brought into the relationships are of monoamorous people being uncomfortable with the situation.

One blogger presents some of the less-favourable reactions from the UK media.

I have the thing on VHS, should anyone want to borrow it.