So I see. My surprise is that he never came up when I did the surname vanity google.

How goes the session?

according to Law & Order, men lie about their height in online date sites.... so should I be listing myself as 5'8"? No wonder I'm not getting that many pings. All the laides think I'm 5'4"

/snarky

My hostess in St. Thomas went on and on and on about that. As a matter of fact, she's so convinced about this that she's convinced herself it's all a conspiracy to turn America into a Muslim nation...that's the only reason the Muslim's haven't killed Obama, is because his "conversion" is a hoax and all part of the greater plan.

head explodes

See, this is the downside of having a female candidate competing with a black candidate. On the one hand you can say Yay, neither is a white guy! Broader perspectives and experience! Inclusion! Opportunity! But on the other hand - somebody's going to lose, and in the diss-the-opppostion fest the issues of gender and race are going to be used as weapons. Which is totally shitty.

Because this whole Muslim thing? Sure as hell wouldn't be going on, imho, were the guy not black, and did his name not sound reminiscent of Osama.

But the really stinking rotten thing, of course is - so bloody what if he were Muslim? Sure, I'd prefer that the next person to be elected Most Powerful Person On The Planet didn't have an allegiance to any religion (let's just look at all the atrocious acts that Bush has candy coated and justified with the language of faith), but if s/he were, Islam's no worse a choice than Christianity.

Apropos of nothing - I've been frequenting another board of late (God, I suddenly feel like a cheating spouse!) in relation to my whole Low Carbing thing. And it's a lovely place, but I have to say that I really really value (1) the clarity, simplicity and elegance of our board and (2) the fact that Buffistas care about grammar, spelling and punctuation. And do not resort to stupid fucking lolspeak. And do not resort to jiggling smilies in place of adequate expression.

Yes, we all have the occasional typing fuckup. No, I do not have some pristine moral highground from which to judge others' spelling and capacity to articulate. And yet - I do. I really do. Poor spelling erodes my respect.

t / awful, awful person

And, to demonstrate how utterly inconsistent I am, I must share with you the fact that my mother (whose spelling is quite as dreadful as her typing, God love her) cracked my shit up entirely when she e-mailed me about the earthquake that hit the UK yesterday, and told me that it was .5 on the Ricketier Scale.

and told me that it was .5 on the Ricketier Scale.

This is utterly charming, in a Bridget Jones' mum sort of a way.

And if liking grammar and good spelling makes you a bad person, then make some room in the handbasket for me.

A good friend of mine in work is a linguist, and we're always having arguments of the prescriptivist vs. descriptivist sort. I'd love to be a descriptivist, really I would, but I'm just not that tolerant. And I contend that the only reason she isn't is that she's terrible at spelling.

from a ways back

nsm with the putting together of hours? Or does the critter Frisco have his days and nights reversed?

He's actually getting better. For the past two nights, he has slept (with one wake up for nursing/diaper changing) from 8 pm to 4am which is fine with me. Ellie goes to bed around 8 and I'll take any 8 hour block, thank you very much.

The hard part is that Ellie often wakes up around 4:30-5:00. She will go back to sleep (she really needs the sleep) if she can snuggle with me or have her back patted, but it's hard to do that when Frisco cries if I'm not nursing/walking/bouncing him. Also, Joe's in GA this week so it's just me.

This morning, Ellie got up at 4:30 and did not go back to sleep. Poor Bean - it's going to be a rough day at school for her.

But the really stinking rotten thing, of course is - so bloody what if he were Muslim? Sure, I'd prefer that the next person to be elected Most Powerful Person On The Planet didn't have an allegiance to any religion (let's just look at all the atrocious acts that Bush has candy coated and justified with the language of faith), but if s/he were, Islam's no worse a choice than Christianity.

Fay, this is exactly my thinking too, although I assume it's because I'm married to a godless heathen european socialist secularist and therefore not a True Amurrican.

I am just generally flabbergasted about why this is even an issue. But I guess religion holds a sway over politics that I can't comprehend.

My office this morning: 70 degrees.

Office next door: 62 degrees.

Area outside these two offices: 64 degrees.

Clearly, I win!

I'm married to a godless heathen european socialist secularist

And God bless him for that.

And God bless him for that.

Shh, don't tell him!

I just heard a story this morning on NPR about different groups of people in Texas and who they're supporting. One woman said that as a woman, she appreciated how far Clinton had come, but as a woman, she really respects men's ability to lead.

Which isn't exactly apropos, but I think it may be possible for us to underestimate how many people only give lip service to separation of church and state. If even lip service. There are people who really do associate being Christian with being a good person.

I hope I made actual sentences there. I'm back to work but my brain is very much not back together. I had to sit down for five minutes after I got out of the shower this morning because I thought I was going to throw up.