on my tivo! not just out there!

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Talked to my brother. Went well. We're on the same page. That being WhatEVER. I got a good laugh at my SIL thinking I was rude because I wrote in an email that I'd tell her to her face to get over it. Which I would. And have. She just reads it as Drama, where it is more...whatever. Mild. And let's not even touch the whole she was reading someone else's email. I don't get people.

In other people acting badly news, the kids next door's mother has made a reappearance in recent weeks. She's...unstable. Of seven kids she's had, only one wasn't a drug baby (N wasn't, S was, but luckily it was softer stuff, so he doesn't have issues in that sense.) But anyway, she's been...bribing them, basically. Buying them stuff, taking them places. More than likely after their SS/welfare check. Anyway, there was some chafing over rules and the kids being teenagers with mom issues, moved out to live with mom. The boy has been back several times because he misses his great-grandmother and aunt AND because mom prefers N so is basically ignoring S. But there's a court date now. I'm kinda beside myself. Teared up when Miss Laine told me. These are, at the core, good KIDS. They are bright, but they need limits. Mom can't do that. The situation is fucked. Miss Louise is probably too frail healthwise to effectively enforce rules right now. But they are so close to breaking the pattern and now, at this crucial point.... God, I hope they have a good social worker.

I've told Miss Laine to tell them to visit me. And I've got some research to do. I've watched them grow up, damnit. I don't want to see them fall.

I mean, god. Even after they'd moved in with mom, they came over here with Miss Louise everyday to visit Devi, my unsocial cat. S turns into a total little boy over Mister Kitty.

AHHHHHRG.

The stupidity needs to stop already.

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you forgot the two basic tenents of my manifesto:

1. people are stupid.

2. the diversity of humanity is astonishing

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TiVo is giving me yesterday's Colbert Reporr, which had Brian Greene on it. My god, the man is such a complete superstring-y hottie.

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Emotions kinda ignore manifestos. They are stupid like that.

People I like need to be notstupid. I mean, I kind of expect mixedup teenagers to be stupid, but....I wish it didn't put them at such risk.

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on my tivo! not just out there!

I repeat my Whee! and raise it a Yay!

1. people are stupid.

Repeating this gets me through a lot of days.

My god, the man is such a complete superstring-y hottie.

He so is. I like it when my tv finds him and watches. He's hot even before you add the smart, adding the smart ... even better.

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He's hot even before you add the smart, adding the smart ... even better.

So very true. I'm vaguely embarrassed to say that I even sent him gushy squeeish fangirrl mail once.

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I had a double dose of PhD hotness on my tv last night--both Brian Greene on CR, and on the Science Channel, Paul Sereno, paleoarcheologist and the dinosaur world's answer to Indiana Jones ('cause, damn, does he make a wifebeater and slouchy hat look hotter than the Saharan landscape he's walking through on those documentaries!).

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MRI ~ma for ita. I hope I'm not too late for it.

It's nice to be back to buffistas after being dark for Dad. However, they're banging on the walls here, and that's not helping my headache at all, so I think I must leave.

I think that Dark for Dad would make a good title for something or other.

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Check out Dark for Dad's new album, They're Banging on the Walls so I Think I Must Leave.

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