did you have a book that showed how to do it?

you should come to NY and we can have a crafty weekend.

My popup book is going well so far,

Describe?

Make sure you get lots of sleep. And buy plenty of kleenex and cold drugs in excess, more than you'll ever need. It worked for bon's back.

My officemate comes in at 7 and so is gone by 3:30 or so. CRAZY.

must remember to ask shrift out if and/or when we meet. just cause.

That would be new and exciting! My livejournal icons get propositioned more than I do these days.

you should come to NY and we can have a crafty weekend.

I would love this so much.

did you have a book that showed how to do it?

I have a book on how to do the mechanisms, but the binding I'm still sort of unclear on. If all else fails, I'll just use a paper punch and wire wrapped in ribbon to bind it.

Describe?

It's a birthday gift. It's 12 pages (heavy black paper), the left pages are little poems I wrote for the story on this opal sort of paper, which I cut into amoeba shapes and pasted to the black. I got wee sparkly rhinestoney things and sprinkled them around the border of the poems.

Then the opposite pages have wheels, pulls, and popups that have something to do with the poem in the story.

Also a hotbed of the Klan in the twenties/thirties. (Dunno if that's still true.)

The Klan was huge in the Teens, 20s and 30s throughout the country. Oklahoma impeached their governor in 1923 because he took an anti-Klan stance, including enacting a ban against wearing masks in public. (The Klan bit is always waved around, but he was a pretty corrupt guy who spent most of his year in office spending the coffers dry.) The Klan also had a cameo appearance in the 1921 Greenwood Riot; many of the white citizenry who showed up to lynch Dick Rowland were Klan members, and the publishers of the Tulsa Tribune (whose headline that afternoon was "TO LYNCH A N----R TONIGHT") were active in the Klan.

In Colorado, the president of CU threatened to take the university private several times due to the Klan wanting to take control of the university. George Norlin is remembered as the greatest president of CU for telling the Klan off, though it was really more a political stance since the Klan controlled the Colorado Legislature and he didn't want politicians telling him how to run his school.

That sounds really neat, Allyson.

I'm avoiding a pointless meeting. Watch me avoid! I just ducked as my department head went by.

Which is why the belief is not unfounded, as opposed to correct.

I don't think it's not not unfounded -- in fact, I think it is pretty unfounded, not being based on any evidence, or such.

And God knows that in 1882, you'd be noticing that entire families had tuberculosis.

TB is a good example of how silly it is to ask whether a disorder is "genetic" or "environmental." TB is caused by a bacterium, of course, not by a genetic defect. But, as in most infectious disorders, genetic variation determines how susceptible you are to infection. TB ran right through some families and left others untouched.

The reason this matters is that genetic studies can lead us to effective treatment/prevention even when the disorder is not genetic. Something different is happening in those invulnerable people, and if we can identify the genes that differ between them and the rest of us we may be able to trace the gene products to useful drug treatments.

No offense, but I really hated living in that state. I'm glad I moved.

None taken. I never really belonged there anyway. I don't miss it. But I'm in Ohio now--not sure if that's much better.

Allyson, get some Cold Eeze lozenges stat. They're Zinc and Vitamin C. If you're coming down with a cold, they can pretty much head it off, reducing symptoms and duration.

Allyson, drink bourbon.