Yeah, it's pretty much Sow (to rhyme with cow) - in. In Irish the last syllable of words tends to get deadened a bit, so it sounds a bit like sow-un too. Yeah, a cross between sow-in and sow-un.
To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.
Anya ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[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.
Jars - Oct 31, 2007 5:47:02 am PDT #1764 of 10002
Sparky1 - Oct 31, 2007 5:47:27 am PDT #1765 of 10002
Librarian Warlord
Happy Anniversary House of Reason!
Happy Birthday, Daniel!
It's house buying day and I have to go to the bank.
d - Oct 31, 2007 6:04:37 am PDT #1766 of 10002
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Happy House Buying Day, Sparky!
Pix - Oct 31, 2007 6:18:44 am PDT #1767 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Jilli, I just directed my favorite little baby-goth to your website. If her mom finds out, I am so dead. Her mom is afraid that she's emo and dangerously dark, but this girl is truly awesome and healthy and well-adjusted. (She asked today if I thought thay she could get away with wearing a petticoat under her school uniform. I said no, but I couldn't help giggling sympathetically.)
hippocampus - Oct 31, 2007 6:22:42 am PDT #1768 of 10002
not your mom's socks.
I'd also want to try to make her read the bleeding books before setting out to burn them
me too. I am struggling with my SMASH! reflex.
She's a teenager, right?
nope. She's 25. Has amazing skills with kids, is an EMT, part time.
Especially since this is someone Iris actually likes and is happy with, which ought to be worth its weight in gold. Sending an email like that in the first place, let alone cc'ing people she doesn't know that well and whose beliefs she can't begin to guess at, speaks poorly for (at least some aspects of) her judgment.
truth. but the first thing that hit my brain upon reading was - You Will Step Away From My Child NOW. Even though she has not spoken like this to us at any time, and, as Iris is a complete parrot, we have pretty good reason to expect that she's not (yet) trying to 'save' anyone here. Besides, if she hasn't taken a look at my bookshelves yet (then she's nothing like me)... and if she has, she hasn't tried to burn any of my books because I would sense it immediately. There's been one other case where she's forwarded an email, about cellphones and driving, and in that case, she was completely factually off base. It seems as if she's just passing on what she gets. With. No. Filter.
She's babysitting one evening a month for us - so I have some time to think about it and figure out a way to have a face-to-face conversation about, you know, freedom. and, um. Mindfulness. Not to mention .... (ok, yah - here I go, with the losing of a babysitter)
amych - Oct 31, 2007 6:27:29 am PDT #1769 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
If her mom finds out, I am so dead.
If her mom finds out, she should read the website herself! She'd find considerable comfort there for the I'm-worried-that-my-child-is-too-emo syndrome!
Also, yay babygoth and yay you for being that teacher we all needed (and were sometimes lucky enough to have) in High School!
amych - Oct 31, 2007 6:28:08 am PDT #1770 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
serial: oh my god I've committed exclamation points
Trudy Booth - Oct 31, 2007 6:28:39 am PDT #1771 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
She probably got it as a forward, skimmed it briefly, and went "yeah!" and forwarded it without a whole lot of thought. (I have found this to be the history of most mass-forwards).
A polite note along the lines of "I was pretty offended by X, Y, Z, in that email" might let her see the light and you keep the sitter.
(Though I'd be tempted to "reply all" and blast her.)
Stephanie - Oct 31, 2007 6:42:41 am PDT #1772 of 10002
Trust my rage
I'm less sympathetic now that I know she's 25. My only thought then would be that if you do decide to say something to her about it, I might say somehting along the lines of "even if this was what you really feel, it's presumptive to assume that everyone you know feels the same, it upset me to receive that email, and it's not good business if you want to keep your clients."
hippocampus - Oct 31, 2007 6:44:20 am PDT #1773 of 10002
not your mom's socks.
(Though I'd be tempted to "reply all" and blast her.)
Hah.
ok, OT - hivemind question. Sparky and a couple others have already given me huge feedback on other parts of this... but now I have a more general internet safety question. I'm starting to blog about a near-and-dear topic - traveling with DH and Iris. It's a way to do some writing of my own, and it has been very fun (though rusty!) so far. I want to make sure I'm working within some safety perameters, though - and I know if other people join in the blog to write or comment, they will probably have the same concerns.
- I am keeping her name off of what I write, though I am posting photos. My byline is my first name and last initial. - the site domain information does not contain our address or name. posts may indicate our general location, but that seems to be within reason. Philly's big. Baltimore too. - if I post about recent trips, I am delaying by a few days.
I know there are other things I'm doing, but if anyone has ideas and/or wants to send me a 'ok, you're doing fine, don't let your mother freak you out,' I would be (again) very grateful.
eta: jaisus Stephanie - that's really good.