'Safe'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana, I'd pay good money to watch you knock over a herd of nuns.
shrift, I had no idea that practically every girl at my grammar and middle schools was your temp receptionist!
I was always about adventures and computers and science, and most of the other girls thought I was weird.
Well Lord knows I can go to Catholic mass and still recite just about all the responses/movements without even having to think about them, so not that far off.
Yeah, I can go through Mass on autopilot, too. I still reflexively cross myself before and after saying grace at my friend's house, even though they're Lutherans and Dave kids me every time I do with "You Papist!"
Ooh. I just discovered that the woman who wrote "The Physics of the Buffyverse" and who does the Cocktail Party Physics blog is gonna be in Chicago tonight, doing a reading at Women and Children First (a feminist bookstore). Hmmm - it's within walking distance of my apartment....
A reading of The Physics of Buffyverse ?
Yes. I guess she's on a book tour now for it.
In her new book she demonstrates how Joss Whedon and other writers of the show have drawn on specific concepts in quantum mechanics, relativity, and string theory to develop innovative plots for episodes. There are teleporting demons, temporal folds, time loops, and dimensional portals similar in concept to the hypothetical wormholes proposed by real-world physicists. In short, the Buffyverse offers a unique lens through which to view the precepts of science with fresh eyes. Science nerds and Buffy fans, unite!
I dunno - the science-y parts of Buffy and Angel were not really why I watched the show....
So it looks like pouring rain will be almost perfectly timed with my departure.
And the umbrella's at home on the couch.
Chicago tonight, doing a reading at Women and Children First (a feminist bookstore)
Is that on the 5000 area of Clark? 'Cause I swear I walked past it last night on the way to dinner.
Yes. I walk through Andersonville fairly often so I see it all the time too.
5233 N Clark St., actually.
I think it's north of Wrigley but south of Andersonville. . . ish (or is it in Andersonville. . .hmmm. . . I haven't been in Chicago in forever.)
That sounds about right, shrift--it's in Andersonville on Clark, I think right down the street from the Swedish Bakery, one of my favorite places in town (my boss always gets me limpa bread and/or butter cookies from there for my birthday, which is coming up next week--can't wait!).
ETA: Andersonville X-post!