That's what I'm seeing as well, megan, but I think I'm going to wait and see what the IRS has to say.

I am going to cash it and put it straight to a CC (3.5 months payments). If we end up having to pay it back in 2009, I will (hopefully) socked that much away over the course of the year in an interest bearing saving acct, that I can retrieve it (angrily).

If I hear more definitively saying it will have to be paid back, I might put half of it into the savings and half toward the CC, just to start the pot faster.

The idea of $900 is happy making though.

Oh, the Keira Knightley pictures are making me despair. She just isn't the lush, bouncy, bosomy Georgiana that someone like Winslet so easily could've been.

And still way too young to pull off the sheer misery of the worst period of the Duchess's life, and the extreme aging-and-ravages-of-illness makeup could be cringe-inducing.

Bah.

Friend emailed back and apologized for the Supremes crack, then answered a rhetorical aside I made about people who think the last 8 years would have been no different with Gore in the White House with, "Well, sure, it would've been different, but only marginally. And don't hand me that Nader-as-spoiler crap either."

I'm breathing deep and just stepping away from the entire conversation before I lose my shit and forget that, after all, this is the guy who, when I was stranded in San Francisco on a rainy night in the middle of moving, drove across two cities to pull my clothes (and Hec's, and Emmett's) out of a laundromat dryer in Berkeley, took it all home, and folded it (he said at the time, "I got worried and thought maybe I'd grabbed the wrong stuff when I saw the little boy clothes, but then I saw the large man's shirt with Flannery O'Connor on it and I knew it was fine; of course you'd marry a man who owned a Flannery O'Connor t-shirt.").

but then I saw the large man's shirt with Flannery O'Connor on it and I knew it was fine; of course you'd marry a man who owned a Flannery O'Connor t-shirt.").

he has redeemed himself a little bit in my eyes with this

JZ, that so sounds like my GOP brothers, only I'm sure they're happy enough with McCain that there's no way they'd vote for either of the Democratic options. But obnoxious political opinions combined with "would move heaven and earth for a friend in trouble," check.

I am sad that no one answered my belt question. Maybe we should have a fashion thread.

shrift, I may have accidentally written Torchwood/Life porn that I just e-mailed you.

Please please tell me this is going to be posted somewhere.

Maybe we should have a fashion thread.

Second!

I couldn't answer your belt question. I have one big wide belt that I love and use as much as I can, but even so I'm probably much more conservative than you are. I'd never wear it over a jacket, or slung down over my hips or jauntily askew or any of the millions of other ways I see everyone who isn't me wearing theirs. And mine is just a regular belt with a buckle, not an obi that ties.

If anyone else has a considered opinion to offer, though, I'm totally taking notes, because your obi belt is way cooler than my buckle belt.

JZ, I wondered if the Georgiana you were talking about was the one from the portrait with her daughter. I remember first seeing that painting (an illustration in a book) years ago and loving it - such a happy picture!