Aimee, I'm glad you were able to get some boss sized reassurance. Like you said, not that he approves, but it is good that he understands.

Thanks, babe. He's had dealings with her before so he gets how things can escalate.

I do think, however, that being in an position where I have to evict people is not good for me anymore.

Ireland is well worth seeing. Paris alone is worth a week or more. And there's the rest of France and Italy.

It's the classic problem when Americans go overseas. So much out there, so little time.

My aunt is going to England to visit her daughter and they're going to Ireland next week. I'm green with envy.

Ultrasound went ok. Found some lumps but they appear to be benign. Yay.

Heck, I lived in Spain for three years and only saw the merest portion of the country, mainly the province of Andalucia, where the base was. Most of my vacations were actually spent in Germany, where my daughter lived and then that was always small towns outside of Ramstein AFB. So. little. time. to see it all.

Zmayhem will definitely and unquestionably be taking a trip up to Seattle this year, because those are ridiculously cheap tickets (I just looked and was quoted $77 each way, but that's still ridiculous in a good way) and it's rental-car-driving distance from Portland, which has also been on our must-visit-soon list for far too long (and tickets to which remain ridiculous in a less-good way). We just have to get a calendar and start plotting.

Playdate!

I lived in England for a year and feel like I barely scratched the surface.

That, and I went to a Ed the Happy Clown place as well. If you don't get it, don't worry - you probably don't want to.

Thanks for giving me images of penis amputation and The Man Who Couldn't Stop before breakfast, Frank.

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...so I'm trying to remember the name of an artist whose work I saw when I was in Canada 17 years ago. I'm pretty sure she's known by 3 names, although I can't remember whether it's Firstname Surname-Surname or Firstname Middlename Surname format. Um. And her artwork tends to crop up in New Agey contexts - on postcards and book covers and posters and suchlike. She draws/paints people (First Nations/Native American, mostly, or maybe entirely?) with their spirit animals superimposed over them, iirc. And I cannot for the life of me remember what she's called.

I know it's a bit of a reach, but anyone in the hivemind got any idea who I'm talking about? At all? Maybe?

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Fay, is she Canadian herself? Also, is she First Nation?

edit Here's a list of First Nation artists - she might be on here: [link]

Susan Seddon Boulet? [link] She was an Oakland, CA artist (which is why I know her name, but if this is actually who you're thinking of I'll plotz).