want a grayhound! Also, Lily is boo-tiful, and JZ rocks.

I got this email from Tom who got it from his niece in Ireland.

Can you give this next bit to Nora? Hi Nora. Thanks for my books. Like you said in my birthday card last year, books are my best friends. Are you gonna read the new Harry Potter book? I'll talk again soon. Bye.

I hope she likes the books for real and isn't just being polite.

Isn't JZ just a talented shirt customizer type person?

I thought "Boo" was a fairly common Southern nick...something you call your shorties. (laughing at probable sound of white-girl me saying "shorties")

I had heard, and this may be urban legend, that the African American practice of giving children royal titles as names came out of resistance to the convention that white people called black people by their first names whereas black people called white people by their titles. i.e. -- if a grown man had to call a ten year old girl "Miss Something" she at least had to call him Prince.

::staring piercingly at my Harry Potter HBP pre-order from B&N, willing it to speed up time just for today::

This has been my experience of the many greyhound rescues in the 'hood. Most are v.v. laid back...like "we can't GET him off the couch", except for the days they go out to the local track for reunion runs. They are also clean and quite elegant.

Yeah, I used to know a guy with greyhounds who would moan about the fact that you're basically racing one of the fastest animals in existence for the good spot on the couch.

If I wasn't deader than a doornail from teh CUTE, I'd post that JZ and the bleach pen are the OTP, and it's impossible for Lilybean to get any more adorable. Though she's got that air that all W&H associates have.... No PDAs for her, Plei.

I'm heading to the pub in a few hours, there to wait for the book shops to open at midnight.

We did it for the last book too. Hanging out in a queue with a bunch of ten year olds is a lot more fun when you're drunk.

Tee hee. This!

It is wonderful that we have Congressional Cemetery for our dogs. Gotta tell you, it's a real treat. And on the days when our greyhound buds are around it's a case of watchful anticipation. Mostly, they walk right. next. to. their. people., but on the days they decide to run? Bea-u-ty.

We also have a Whippet bud named Zoom. He's always up for a sprint, that one.

eta: I was obviously responding to Brenda.

etaa: Jars, I've found the frivolity hi-lar-ious under any conditions. Still? Drunk or sober, I'll be hung over from all night reading tomorrow!

Lilybean is so amazingly beautiful: [link]

Well, corgis are herding dogs -- they like to keep busy.

Heh. My mom's pit bull is actually a pit/corgi mix. And he does try to herd the humans. So basically, with that mix, you get a dog that tries to herd you, who will KEEL YOU DAID if you don't comply.