Buffy ,'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Timelies,
6 hours of sleep last night. Not great, but an improvement at least.
Woke up this morning to find my cable modem working. I'm on the fence as to whether I should cancel the service call for this morning or not, I mean it's been down since Wednesday with no explanation from Comcast and I'm wondering if my cable modem is slowly dying. I'd like to know for sure what's wrong, but I don't know if the service guy is just going to go "Well, it's working now. See ya."
We have a new family at our school. They're here from Alaska. Maybe I should ask Juliana and Libkitty if they know them.
It's a small state sometimes. One of us just might.
ita, have a wonderful trip! So very exciting.
I won't be gone near long enough, considering -- I'll be back on the 17th.
How long is the flight?
two insensitive crew members were dismissed after they approached David Brown holding nooses, suggesting that he and Foxx were heading for a Ku Klux Klan-style lynching.Oh my word. Animals.
According to the Boston Foundation and the Citizens' Housing and Planning Association's "Housing Report Card" cost of living is the highest in the country. [link]
Hmm. I thought LA's median housing prices still beat out Boston, though. But that's just my sense of things, not backed up by facts.I haven't read the article so I'm talking out of my coffee cup more than anything else, but cost of living takes into account more than just prices. If places like SF, L.A., etc. have higher housing prices (and they likely do, although we're always nearish the top) they probably also have higher wages, and/or lower [other things] which may be included in the calculation.
It's a small state sometimes. One of us just might.
Don't we have another Alaskan here, in addition to you and libkitty, j? Oh, wait, I think we do and the Alaskan's name actually is Another Alaskan.
I don't suppose you've heard that any of your friends/neighbors/relatives have moved to the Boston area? I know the youngest boy's first name is Ian. He came to school in a dress shirt, tie, and slacks--his hair high and tight and I was wondering about hwo formal he looked (we don't have a dress code). Then I spotted a wee little diamond stud in one ear. Adorable. He's in kindergarten with Chris. They also have a first grade girl in Julia's class, and a fourth grade girl in Ben's class.
Kindergarten students only attended for an hour on the first day, with parents in tow. Ian's mother asked a question about snacks, and said that "in Alaska" (her words, not mine--and my inner-Buffista really wanted to question her whether this was true for the whole state, or just their former school, but I was good) the snacks had to be healthy, and even when she'd baked Banana Bread, it was taken away from the kids, and they weren't allowed to eat it.
When we picked up Ben and Julia at the end of the day, I asked Julia who the new girl was, and she was very excited to tell me that she was from Alaska. Then Ben said, "Hey! I have a girl from Alaska in my class, too!"
Oh dear.
I thought I had an amusing finish for my story, because it was kind of neat (if you were there) to realize, but um...I guess I don't, so...
TA DAH!!!
TA DAH!!!
This makes me think of that picture that Nilly has of us that we are all in, with Theo and a couple others, doing a TA-DAH! sort of pose.
Today is the (round numberth) birthday of my little sister, Nutty. I wasn't best pleased about it at the time, but look how lucky I am now! Happy Birthday, Nutty!
Happy Birthday, Nutty!!!
Happy sister day, flea!
This makes me think of that picture that Nilly has of us that we are all in, with Theo and a couple others, doing a TA-DAH! sort of pose.
If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance or baffle 'em with bullshit, distract distract distract.
I wasn't best pleased about it at the time
So they wouldn't take her back, huh?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NUTTY!
Happy Birthday Nutty!!!
Happy Birthday, Nutty.
Happy numberth birthday, Nutty!
I know the youngest boy's first name is Ian. He came to school in a dress shirt, tie, and slacks--his hair high and tight and I was wondering about hwo formal he looked (we don't have a dress code). Then I spotted a wee little diamond stud in one ear. Adorable.
Awww. On Emmett's first day of school, Hec and I noticed one girl among the third graders who was dressed incredibly formally: black velvet dress with white lace trim at the cuffs and collar and hem of the skirt, tights, patent leather shoes, and, instead of a backpack, a large leopard-print purse. Emmett's mom, who was a teacher's aide in most of the classes last year, said, "Oh, her, yes. She's always dressed like that. Long dresses, velvet, usually a hat." Jilli-in-training!