Here. Read Obama's speech. It soothes on this day, the coronation of King George.

Heal-ma to Allyson's ear.

YaY! for Gus coming home.

And I heart Cindy's son's teacher, too. It was StE's third grade teacher that killed his love for reading, and it never did come all the way back. I still hold a grudge.

And speaking of the Rapture, it's a relief, in a way, to have one's conspiracy theories and paranoia confirmed.

Timelies,

Yay to Gus coming back home.

WTF? Desperate Alias? Alias Housewives? Stepford Alias?

It made me think of the X-Files episode "Arcadia".

Re: VM guest star, while it will be cool to see her again and I still think she's lovely, she doesn't really look like a late teens/early 20s anymore. Unless she's supposed to be 10 years older than Logan or something.

I saw a flag at half mast on the way to work this morning, is something going on or does someone just really dislike Bush?

Around here, anyway, flags have been at half-mast since the tsunami.

When a friend of mine was about 16, she would sometimes take her one year old brother out - she got a lot of dirty looks from people who assumed he was her son.

Apparently my aunt used to get dirty looks when she took me out as a baby, as she was 13 at the time.

I am very obviously my father's son. About the only one in my family people tend to express disbelief over my being related to is my brother, which is funny since we have similar height and coloring (though I'm a bit taller and broader shouldered) and almost identical hair. (Though he styles his different and tends to dye it assorted colors.)

I have run my errands for work, and I did them efficiently and with ease. Today is really not sucking for me.

I now only need 2 things from outside the building for the event. 1 is being delivered (wraps) and the other (ice) needs to wait to avoid meltage.

I am going to go plate the cheese and grapes, wrap them and put them in the fridge. Also, get the flowers in water.

Today is really not sucking for me.

Glad to hear that!

but when you factor in that I clearly remember playing peekaboo with them and putting on stuffed animal plays when they were toddlers, it's a bit creepy.

Oh dear, this reminded me of a friend's kid sister. I hadn't seen her in quite a while, and the next time we ran into each other (at a gather of computer nerds her folks were attending), she had become an attractive and curvy 18. Which any person could see, but then she started crushing on me, which skeeved me the hell out because I knew her when she was EIGHT YEARS OLD.

It was very difficult explaining to her that it wasn't something she should take personally, but there was no way at all I was ever going to be able to think of her that way.

Just to follow on the Bill Moyer article before:

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An interesting collection of polls about religion with the source of each poll noted.

So I managed to catch the swearing-in ceremony this morning and I found myself just a little surprised. Or maybe disappointed, I don't know. I was half expecting to hear Sideshow Bob's acceptance speech.

So I managed to catch the swearing-in ceremony this morning and I found myself just a little surprised. Or maybe disappointed, I don't know. I was half expecting to hear Sideshow Bob's acceptance speech.

Instead, you got a speech from the love child of Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders.

Thanks for linking that Moyers speech. Chilling.

eta: As far as the inaug goes, I'm maintaining strict radio silence.