Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Pix - Sep 18, 2007 11:45:49 am PDT #6016 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

I'm not just her mother, I'm her role model. That's cool.

That's very cool, especially given that you're teaching her a love of reading.

I love the James Herriot series like I can't even tell you. I think they were my most-read books when I was young.


lisah - Sep 18, 2007 11:47:00 am PDT #6017 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I love the James Herriot series like I can't even tell you. I think they were my most-read books when I was young.

I loved them too! hmm... I wonder if my 9-year old big reader niece who currently wants to be a vet has read them yet.


Daisy Jane - Sep 18, 2007 11:47:27 am PDT #6018 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Am v. annoyed by the goddamn motherfucking republicans who voted against giving me representation. I mean, fine, unconstitutional, whatever--let's see one of you start the ball rolling on amending the constitution, eh? OR on giving DC a little bit more self-government, and not trying to rule us just cause you happen to flit in and out of here feeling important?? GRRRRRR.

Not a Republican, but I'm sorry meara and other DCistas, that sucketh. No taxation without representation, huh? Also sorry the Maryland court decided you don't have the same rights as me.

People suck today.


meara - Sep 18, 2007 11:51:37 am PDT #6019 of 10001

Yeah, not really surprised about Maryland. But the taxation without representation thing...damn, people, that's what the founders FOUGHT for, and you piss it away for us?

And you know the R's just care cause D.C.'s Democratic anyways. Fuckers.

This bill was going to add a seat to Utah too, so it's not like the "delicate" balance of the House was going to change! Sigh.

57 votes--enough to pass, but not enough to bust a filibuster.

Is it anything like the old anti-smoking commercials, "Like father, like son?"

Basically. His son swears when he spills a drink in the car, then says he learned it by watching his dad. Later he prays before bed, and says the same thing, blah blah blah.


Daisy Jane - Sep 18, 2007 11:54:06 am PDT #6020 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Also: Felt like this should not be in a post about people sucking

That is very cool Susan. According to mom that's the same way I a) started reading to myself in bed and b) saying I didn't want my "thin books" I apparently wanted to make up stories with the adult books with the words I could make out.


Laga - Sep 18, 2007 11:54:22 am PDT #6021 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Maryland can go ahead and suck me right now. It's bad enough they ruled that same sex couples don't have the right to marry. They also claim that sexuality is not immutable and therefore not comparable to race or gender.


Daisy Jane - Sep 18, 2007 11:56:04 am PDT #6022 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Basically. His son swears when he spills a drink in the car, then says he learned it by watching his dad. Later he prays before bed, and says the same thing, blah blah blah.

Yeah, not nearly as heartwarming a father and son country song as "A Boy Named Sue."


erikaj - Sep 18, 2007 11:56:35 am PDT #6023 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Oh, and the racial implications are kind of gross, if you think of it. Open-minded guy like Trent Lott, how dare I? (I wish I could send Omar to take care of him.)


Susan W. - Sep 18, 2007 11:59:37 am PDT #6024 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

That's very cool, especially given that you're teaching her a love of reading.

Well, it does make me more aware of what else I might be modeling for her, for good or ill, without realizing it!

Tangenting off to taking a book on the bus...lately I've been subtly nosy about trying to see what my fellow bus riders bring along to while away their commute time. Last week I sat next to a woman reading War and Peace and was duly impressed. There's one guy who gets on at the stop after mine on the way home who diligently improves his marketable skills by always reading software how-tos and the like. The week where it seemed like half the bus was immersed in Harry Potter was fun.

What surprises me a bit that only 1/4 to 1/3 of bus riders on an average day are doing anything to occupy themselves, be it book, iPod, paper, conversation with friend, or whatever. Granted, it's a shortish commute (15-25 minutes from my park & ride to my stop, on an express that basically takes people from two park & rides and drops them off at a cluster of hospitals), but I can't imagine just sitting and staring out the window at exactly the same things I stared at yesterday, day in and day out. Too many books and too little time!


tommyrot - Sep 18, 2007 12:04:42 pm PDT #6025 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I can't read on a city bus or CTA train without getting nauseous. More comfy trains like Metra or Amtrak it's not a problem.