Kaylee ,'Serenity'
[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.
Sox, insent.
Timelies! I'm about to go to Wawa for a coffee/steamer type beverage and donuts. Mmm. Also, am slacking off on my workouts this week. Oops! Mostly don't care. I'll get my nose to the grind again tomorrow.
They moved my first triathlon back a week due to conflicts with the city. Now my friend who got me into this in the first place can race with me after all!
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.
Well, yes. But in the current reality of this country, that's not really the point.
There are the people who understand and believe that. And there are the people for whom the mere name issues [Osama/bama, Hussein] are enough to put the man entirely beyond the pale. But there are also the large mass of people who are out there going "Muslim, huh? I hear an awful lot of bad about those people. Don't they hate America and stuff? Can we really take a chance on this guy?"
And it's those idiots who the whole mess is directed at. And those idiots who (potentially) have the power to fuck us all over again. So the challenge is to defuse the issue without buying into the inherent Muslim=bad line that the right has spent the last decade spewing.
d - backflung.
when is the tri?
when is the tri?
Now 7/13 instead of 7/6.
The only things making this day tolerable are the fact it is actually chilly here (55 degrees), it's Thursday so the week is almost done and I can play my iPod while kids work on projects (roataing between the Best of College Acapella and the Red Hot Chilli Pipers)
I miss my Tivo. I also miss my Kristin. Not in that order either.Aw, thanks. I miss you too. I'm so glad I got to hang out with you Monday night, at least. Any chance I can see you tonight or tomorrow?
What makes my today tolerable is that today is "Zoo Day" (don't ask, it's another Spirit Week thing), so I'm in full tourist garb: jeans, Tevas, a floppy canvas hat, camera around my neck, and ND's uber-cheesy Hawaiian shirt with a lady in a waterfall on the back.
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.
Amen and amen.
Even if I wanted to spend time on another board...which I vehemently do not...I couldn't bear it with all the clutter and teeny text and graphic madness and lolspeak.
I love the buffyspeak and the can hazzing around here, but I can love it because I know it's for effect, rather than a refuge from attempting actual grammar.
Buffistas are bright and shiny and oh, so lovely and intelligent. Thank dog.
eta: Hmm. Should that read 'for affect? Now see, I can ask that because I know someone around here will actually know the answer with some authority. Made of win.
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.
That's the last story I heard before getting out of the car at the park & ride this a.m., and I'm still picking up little pieces of my exploded head. I mean, I know there are Christians out there who don't think women should hold any leadership role, whether secular or religious, but I like to think of them as a lunatic fringe, not members of a large big city church in my own childhood denomination.
Of course, my refusal to accept a lesser role for women and my inability to go on pretending to myself I didn't believe in evolution are what first shoved me over from Religious Right to Religious Left.
Susan, see also: Mars Hill, why it makes me twitchy. (Have enjoyed D's occasional Metroblog posts on them.)
Should that read 'for affect?
Nope. Er, I was going to have a reasoned argument, but I can never remember the words to use to define affect as a noun, except that I always think of people with certain kinds of mental illness having no affect. Maybe someone else can help out.
Also, I too love the board. I tried the Bronze, ages ago, but I could never get into it. You guys are my people.
ETA: Nothing wrong with the Bronze, or anyplace else. Just that spelling/grammar/punctuation is one of my deal-breakers, while it may not be for others. Although I'm a bit suspicious that there may be an elitist aspect to that. I get very conflicted.