I have to say, the first time I got licked electronically, I was a little startled.

Oh, me too. Esp. since it was someone I didn't know (Nos'). I don't get a lot of it anyway, since I don't reciprocate. Although I do throw around a fair amount of *wants to eat X's spicy brains* and that sort of thing. It seems less stalkery, somehow.

I've been having trouble with LJ for the last few days. Which probably is the cosmos telling me to stop reading it and get back to work, dammit.

So in two weeks my brother's girlfriend, whom none of the family has met, is coming to SF for a month (or more) to study English. She's Chinese. My sister is incredibly stressed by this, especially since I get the distinct impression my brother never actually *asked* if it would be okay for his girlfriend to live here for six weeks. While he stays in Beijing, because he's working. Did I mention we've never met her?

Argh. This is going to be... interesting. I hope we're able to communicate.

Excellent, Nilly! The class sound absolutely great. Kuhn is a pretty dry read, but his philosophies are endlessly fascinating. I think I originally read him in an epistemology class, in which he mostly killed the very idea of a hierarchy of knowledge. Rorty has taken Kuhn's philosophy (which boils down to saying that even the scientific method is not an objective tool) as proof that pragmatic relativism (which Rorty calls "anti-essentialism") is the appropriate stance towards views of the world. Things are not true because truth exists in a God's-eye view of the world; things are true because they are generally accepted to be true by this or that consensual authority.

How is your wife doing, by the way?

She's great. And by "great," I mean she's healthy and carrying around a big ol' baby in her belly. We're only 6 weeks out from the due date! Jeez, I feel like I'm never going to get everything ready in time. But we took a class on the Bradley method of natural birthing, and we feel fairly confident that we can handle whatever we face.

She's using the immersion approach, huh? Good luck. To me, that sounds neat, but my family is all about unexpected guests we've never met before but are friends of some relative, but if you aren't used to it, I imagine it could be rather uncomfortable. Or if you are me and the idea of houseguests has you hiding under the couch. I'm the odd one in the family.

So we started our annual survey and are getting in results already. They make me laugh. Especially when many of the "complaints" can be characterized as user error. Hahaha! You suck, we're so cool. Luckily, they can't read my mind and think me a whole lot nicer than I really am.

She's using the immersion approach, huh? Good luck.

Well, she's been studying English for a while, it's just she's never left China. She must be nervous: I certainly would be. It'll just be weird, because my sister's family is busy-busy-busy and highly verbal. I don't know how much time they'll have for her.

As it is, she'll have to take public transportation into the city for her classes, and won't that be fun the first few times.

A four song streaming concert of the Magnetic Fields:

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All those damp pixels are kind of funky...

And it leaves streaks on the monitor.

I don't get a lot of it anyway, since I don't reciprocate.

Yeah, I don't get it terribly often, but it keeps happening, despite the fact that people seem to expect me to be a six foot tall terror in black leather, and I don't pepper my online conversation with hugs and pounces and smoochies.

But personal space bubbles don't really exist on the Internets.

There ought to be a personal space bubble emoticon!

As it is, she'll have to take public transportation into the city for her classes, and won't that be fun the first few times.

The first time I ever took public transportation (a bus) by myself, I was pretty nervous. I was a Junior in college.

Yes, I've been known to suffer from excessive anxiety.

Livejournal to sell?

as long as they don't muck things up, a sale doesn't bother me, but I have bad memories of the sidewalk/citysearch merger and several others.

people changing my interface makes me grumpy.

oh. I forgot lunch.

people changing my interface makes me grumpy.

Actually, LJ already did that, and I'm still grumpy about it.