Yes you are.

Beware the polar bears.

If a polar bear eats me HE will explode.

BOOM! Shake, shake, shake the room?

I have to pack. I leave for Chicago tomorrow. And I have to be at work an hour earlier than usual. Which I think means I really need to leave even earlier so I can stop at Starbucks...

Tomorrow, I get trained in ETHICS! Apparently it's actually vaguely interesting, if a little bizarre in spots. Or so my coworkers told me ("what if you took ten pencils from the company to give to children who had none for school?" WTF?)

Is there something in the water? I just got the "they're conspiring against Christmas rant" from my mother, who neither listens to talk radio nor goes on the internet.

It is a well organized thing. And while I agree that the right in America is more anti-woman, anti-gay, and anti-muslim, etc. than anti-semitic - this particular attempt to stir up a new culture war IS primarily anti-semitic. The "War on Christmas" is not a new trope, going as I said back at least to Nazi supporter Henry Ford back in the 20's. And while it is no news that a number of right wingers are anti-semites, that is not usually their primary concern. This particular stirring of the pot is aimed specifically at Jews - with liberals, secularists, Muslims etc. being the secondary target. Because of support for Israel, the extreme right in this country has kept its anti-semitism under control for quite some time. Don't know why they decided to foreground that particular hatred of theirs now; but if you look at the particular phraseology and and code words being used, I think it is pretty clear that is what they are doing.

I hate being awake. Being awake means being hurty. I've been awake since 4 am. But the good news is that I only have four days left in this work week.

had a conversation with a volunteer at the library today - about all this. I didn't really mean to get into a personal conversation about religion - but it turns out that she is a lot like me in her beliefs. She has a friend that wants to get her invovled in a major xmas day do - and she doesn't want to . I think those that are killing christmas, are those of us that want to say home lolling under the tree eating, openning presents and watching movies. how dare we chose lesiurely and slowpaced.

Good morning Windsparrow. Sorry you are awake. I am awake just because. there aren't even hamsters. In a few minutes I will try bed or tv.

merekats!

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{{{WindSparrow}}}

{{{beth}}}

I hope you both get some more sleep.

I am going to try coffee this morning. That may be a mistake, but I'm gonna try it anyway.

Overnight my cousin sent pictures of their new baby. Oh, is he ever a cutie! But, my favorite pictures were of my cousin in her tiara at the hospital, holding the baby right after delivery. And my second favorite is of the baby at four weeks in a Superman costume! His bedroom has clouds painted on the wall, and he looks like he's flying through the clouds. It's ADORABLE! I wish I could copy the picture and show it. So. Damn. Cute!