Good story, dcp.

Hi Nilly! As always, your sincerity and devotion shines through. I can truly say that you have never wronged me, and in fact I can only aspire to be like you.

Nilly, you are forgiven for being so darn cute.

Nilly, I love your Yom Kippur posts so very much. I can honestly and easily say you have never done one thing to offend me. How was your Rosh Hashanah?

Ha HA! I found a topic for my paper that EVERYONE's been on about. Now I just have to pick two groups. Have you people heard of the American Center for Law and Justice? I have, but I don't know if they're actually well-known. What about Concerned Women for America?

Go spaghetti. Choose spaghetti. Yeah, I've heard of the ACLJ. I don't know how well heard of they are, though. I think maybe I've heard of CWA from links here, but not otherwise.

I am wearing the best dress ever. I'm not sure precisely what it looks like (though over half the people I spoke with volunteered their like of it), but it feels pretty and glamourous and la! If I could stride better in those heels ... but the quasi striding I did had the dress trailing me in the air (it's very light) in the funnest of ways. And I spilled a cosmo down it, and you totally couldn't tell.

You mean, it's beautiful and well behaved, too? I love clothes like that. Pretty pretty. It's very wrong that you didn't get pictures.

Yup. It was just such fun to wear. Shame about the need for delicate heels.

The dress is so lovely, I think you should go on a quest for delicate shoes that are more comfortable. I think you can get delicate shoes with less heel. It'll probably happen by accident, when you're looking for something else, though.

I had enough fun tonight that I think we should do a post Day of the Dead, Day of the Dead party. Not the 29 or the 30 but Nov. 5

That's Guy Fawkes Day, though. [link]

Remember, remember the fifth of November.
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot.

Better than this [link]?

Oh, so that's the dress the Serenity viewers have been talking about. Wow. GT is a marvel, isn't she?

Oh, she looks marvellous here too.

I want to start seeing pictures where she doesn't look marvellous. I don't believe they exist.

Ugh, trying to psyche myself up for yoga meant a half-hour of napping this morning, but at least the ibuprofen has started to kick in.

Conversely, once I get yoga-ing, I'll feel much better. It's just the run-up that really really sucks.

Nilly, you've never caused me any offence, inadvertantly or otherwise. If there's anybody here on the board that I've offended in the past year (or past years) without apology or comprehension that I've done so, I hope they'll contact me privately or publicly to let me know so I can attempt to atone, or failing that, at least understand where a difference arises.

I realize once again that I completely lack the ability to write anything concise

And we are grateful.

If there's anybody here on the board that I've offended in the past year (or past years) without apology or comprehension that I've done so, I hope they'll contact me privately or publicly to let me know so I can attempt to atone, or failing that, at least understand where a difference arises.

What the lovely Theodosia said too.

Sweet jesus, 18,000 people are dead from the earthquake in Pakistan. That's just horrifying.

I can honestly say I don't think I've been offended by a single person here this year. It's been a good year.

I can honestly say I don't think I've been offended by a single person here this year

My god, woman, it's like you just don't try.

On the other hand, no amount of trying has gotten me offended by Nilly. Hon, you must have a very simple Yom Kippur. You deserve it, by grace of your niceness.

Nilly's annual Yom Kippur post! Hard to belive it's been a year.

Nilly, every year your cyber addressing of an ancient ritual makes me see religion as a living thing. Thank you.

one of the things the researchers said was that they are trying to determine why some people were resistant and some weren't...and that if you are alive today, you are most likely resistant because your progenitors survived.

That doesn't make sense to me. If a hundred people had it for every person who died its not that my ancestors couldn't GET it, it's that they survived the infection for whatever hugely variable reason.

it's that they survived the infection for whatever hugely variable reason

Well, maybe their research was into those reasons, and they narrowed down the variables.

Well, maybe their research was into those reasons, and they narrowed down the variables.

But even if they did the variables would still be... variable.

Say my great-grandmother survived and her sister died because her sister's lungs were still recovering from an illness the previous year. If this year my sister and I catch an avian flu and we could end up living and dying for the same reasons. Or maybe I like carrots and she hates them and the vitamin A in our systems tips the balance. Or a million other environmental factors that we'd have no way of knowing our individual ancestors experienced.