Heather, bringing it home in Natter:
I love where I'm from. I love my culture. I love my accent. I love having a down to earth, beer in the back of the truck, above ground pool by the trailer with self-installed add-ons, watching football on Saturday while shelling peas family and upbringing.
You know what I don't love? The thought of my grandmother not being able to afford her medication for her hip or not being able to get to the hospital in Shreveport should something bad happen. I don't love the thought of my cousin not having a choice because she made a mistake when she was in a bad place. I don't love my dad's school having temporary buildings and not enough desks for students, and I don't love my step-dad having to lay off bus drivers because public transportation isn't as much as a priority as attracting businesses with tax breaks. I don't love that people may not be able to get to the jobs those businesses bring in, or if they do, they have to decide between that and decent housing.
Most of all, and I can't stress this enough, I don't love, in fact I can't stand, one might even say I hate being told how I or anyone else feels based on where I live.
ita, in
Natter:
My mother is crying right now, and she doesn't know why. But it's because her first-born daughter can't dress up as a girl for Halloween without hitting the malls.
Gudanov:
E doesn't seem to be bothered much by her cast, but is looking foward to having taken off in a week. L is still adorable, cute, and always getting in trouble. L's new favorite hobby is annoying his big sister.
brenda m:
Pretty brave, when she's got a cast right there to bop him with. Or possibly E's big-sistering style is different than mine was.
Calli:
When my nephew was around four, my sister handed him an apple. He yelled, "Nooooooo!" and ran from the room. They'd covered The Fall in his Sunday school class that morning. Apparently it took a while to explain the difference between A fruit and The fruit to him.
brenda m.
Thought of you when I saw this headline, MM:
U.N.: Robot use to surge sevenfold by 2007
I think they're on to you.
Miracleman
U.N.: Robot use to surge sevenfold by 2007
I saw that, too. But it turns out their talking about automation in manufacturing and whatnot.
You have to go to a different website to see the headline: "Evil Genius Mastermind Increases Undead, Robot Armies Tenfold by 2005. Global Domination Imminent. Neener."
JohnSweden
You have to go to a different website to see the headline: "Evil Genius Mastermind Increases Undead, Robot Armies Tenfold by 2005. Global Domination Imminent. Neener."
Ah. CNN.
connie beat me to the CNN part.
Ah, well. C'est la Wolf Blitzer.
lori
in
Natter
on Internet fame:
If it weren't for these Mars rovers, my entire vanity Google would consist of reprints of Dogs In Elk. As it is, Dogs in Elk accounts for 90%.
Matt the Bruins Fan
responding to a recent news event:
Well, I'm relieved to hear the officer wasn't harmed while electrocuting septagenarians in a nursing home. I can sleep peacefully tonight knowing that Officer McZappy is making the world safe from roving geriatric gangs.
Liese:
Ha. Look at me with the protesting and running, and the people doing my arguing for me, even when I wasn't. Yay Buffistas.
Emily:
I deduced that the Red Sox must have won when the screaming and honking began directly outside my bedroom window at about midnight. What the fuck is wrong with people, anyway? Houses mean people trying to sleep, assholes.
