Interesting. I'm watching something about maintenance (oops-- Extreme Maintenance) of national parks. It's really cool, but it'd be better without the Courageous Music.

Good heaven, Beej. The cops just took the word of a child? Didn't even bother asking for your mom?

I was alone (per usual) at 11pm. No mom in the picture, living alone with my violent, alcoholic, convicted pedophile of a father.

Yup. Ain't that America?

Or at least America in 1967. Things have improved in some quarters.

I'm pretty suspicious these days of the idealized American Individualism, since it seems often to go along with the idea that the Individual in question is more important than other, you know, people.

Amen Emily!

Personal freedom is my most cherished value. And yet? I wonder what happened to honor and recognizing that supporting the whole DOES support me. For catsake, game theory even supports working together.

Extreme Maintenance

changing a lightbulb while it's hot?

Bwah!

Today Chicago PBS is having lots of dog tv: right now - Nature on puppy development, then an hour of canine evolution and finally an hour about pugs!

I've already watched about an 90 minutes of dog tv on ESPN2 and an hour on animal behavior on Animal Planet.

Nice Sunday.

(X-post with Natter, cause I started it here:) So far, the Extreme Maintenance has included setting fires in the Grand Canyon, the two-month seven-day-a-week, ten-hours-a-day process to clear the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier National Park, and now hunting an alligator, um... somewhere. I missed what park.

God I love dog tv.

Whenever I am at a friend's house...who has a tv, I'm all over Animal Planet.

I'm the sappiest of sapersteins when it comes to "That's My Baby."

But last week? I watched a 'game' show called 'Who Gets The Dog?' on AP. It was like "The Swan" for pathetic/wrongness. Pimp a dog to three families, set them up to fail in training exercises they have no instruction for, then deny two families and watch their kids cry. Lovely.

Oh! They're not so much hunting it as inventorying a nest to check hatchling rates while warding off the mother alligator. (It's on the Travel Channel. Probably the Everglades?)

ETA: Alligators first, now crocodiles. Nifty! Very different kind of nest.

Oh my goodness. Baby crocodiles make incredibly cute noises.

::imagining little wee voices say, "eat you! I'mma EAT you! numnumnumnumnum."::

going back to bed on a Sunday ...mmm what a good idea .

so far I have had two cookies and a tiny cup of tea. I need food but not sure what. Matt is going out to liook at tree stumps.

should I 1) go to the cafe and have them make me food. possible followed by some bead shopping.

or

2) find some yummy food in the house and watch tv.

note: at 3ish I do have to do something