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Well, I'm back at school again. Right now I'm checking grades, schedule, and flist.

I passed everything, although my GPA took a bit of a hit. Luckily, my first year ended with a high GPA, so as long as I am more careful this semester, it should be okay.

My room is in the process of being set up again. I reorganized some things, and we'll see how long that lasts. I've also figured out where everything but the tv can go if I get a roommate. If I do get one, I'll probably head down to the dollar store and grab a cheap table or some such thing.

The ear doesn't hurt, aside from a few mild twinges, so yay for that.

And I finished my knitting toy on the car ride. It is pretty and soft.

Lunch with the geeky guy and Dad went well. We went out for chinese and they talked to each other. I even let Dad tell the Bishop Tutu story. And Dad managed to figure out how to save Legend to my music files, so I have Steve McDonald to listen to. Glee.

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This post was actually inspired from something that aelora posted in her latest Fembot article. She had listed her opinions on the ten most attractive women in sci-fi. Reading the comments, many guys seemed to disagree.

So I started wondering, what do I find most attractive in my own gender? What makes a woman beautiful to me? Not in a sexual way, but just as in, I see that woman as beautiful.

To me, the one defining trait I kept coming back to was grace, both phyisical and emotional. Physical, as in the woman in question is comfortable with the space she occupies, is comfortable with the way she moves, and moves well within her environment. Emotionally, I see grace as being able to accept what happens, deal with it, and move on appropriately. A woman can be very graceful emotionally when she's crying, because she is dealing with that emotion properly for her. If you watch Atlantis at all, you can see both examples of grace in action. Teyla is very physically graceful, and also has some emotional grace in her. I find her character to be very beautiful. And Elizabeth Weir has a lot of emotional grace, more so than almost any other character I can think of on tv. Again, I consider her as a character beautiful.

So my question to you, my flist, is what do you find beautiful in your own gender? Or for those of you who are attracted to either gender and want to consider it that way, what do you find beautiful in the gender you are least sexually attracted to in general. My focus here is on the platonic side of things.