I am gonna need a fashion recap. didn;t see nearly enough. off to tvguide channel.

It's Alright to Cry I think is my fave. Maybe because I've never been an easy crier.

Suburban New Jersey, 1970s, and Ann was practically the only kid I knew whose mom worked.

Suburban NJ 1980s, not many kids I knew had mothers who worked outside the home. Kindergarten was half-day, and most kids were dropped off and picked up by their mothers. (My mom worked some days, but not every day. Three days a week, I went to kindergarten program at the synagogue, and my mom and the moms of three of the other kids alternated days for carpooling and giving us all lunch.)

Oh, yes, the tigers. Ladies first!

The song about the boy who loved his doll rocks too.

William's Doll! Love that one. I love it all, actually, although the Grandma one kind of freaked me out as a kid because she was so creepy.

And, sadly, a lot of the messages are just as timely today.

Absoutely. FTBYAM and Really Rosie were my all-time favorite albums as a kid. Ah, albums.

Yay! Now I'm listening to It's All Right To Cry!

I am back from teaching and from Full Force

with Cult Jam?

Nay. With RAW Power, verily.

This Free To Be Whomever stuff sails merrily over my head. A bigger push when I was young was to get people (esp men) to use birth control. People were too free as it was.

Interrupting for Jane Eyre talk:

Did Jane really have amnesia when the St. Johns Riverses took her in? Why am I not remembering this?

And God, St. John is just as sanctimonious as ever, isn't he?

I only look askance because I was not raised on it.

Oh, great. another shooting in my hood. THIS is why I do not watch the news. tv off and I'm to bed.

Let me interrupt with a (serious) plea for help copied from my lj.

(It's a locked post, and I want to keep it that way or I'd just link. But it occurs to me that there are people around here I probably don't have friended - if you want to friend me and v.v., I'm brendalu. Just let me know, because I never notice changes/additions on my own.)

Anyhoo:

Crap! I have to come up with "five things you don't know about me" for work - to be distributed to our team and to a whole bunch of other people. (It's not because I'm new - I just happened to come on board right when this idea was bubbling up.)

Help? I'm stumped. If I leave out fannish/online stuff, then...what?

I've got a couple, not terribly good ones. So, what do you think? What have I told you that made you think, "huh, that was unexpected/cool/interesting" - um, in the good way.

Here's what I've got so far:

- Dual citizen (I'ma refrain from calling that my get-out-of-hell-free-card in this context).
- I was invited to dinner by Pierre Trudeau. (CBC radio once had a contest for the person you'd most want to have dinner with - Trudeau hands-down. So that's kind of neat.)
- I've recently discovered an inexplicable passion for country music.*

What else? Better ideas? I'm not sure that being chased by Quebec riot police or living on a commune are quite right for this audience.

*Money line from the song playing right now -

And I'm sorry, baby, about the time I accidentally shot your dog when I was hunting and I told you he'd run a--/ Wait, I told you about that, right?

Scooter Jennings, (You Can't See the Tears Behind My) Aviators