Speaking of the presentation...

What's a good graphic that I could use to represent women and fundamentalism?

ETA: Or should I just be more neutral and use this: [link]

Vortex and Sox, my niece has turned down the Echols thing at UVA to take UNC-CH's money and attend college there

Dead to me. I mean, I don't know her, but she's dead to me.

Fundamentalist/Women pics....FLDS: [link]

(just going to Fox News gave me hives)

Middle Eastern: [link]

ION, I just realized that my workplace subsidizes Starbucks. A grande latte is $2.70 there.

That Wizard of Oz quilt is awesome. I think I need to learn how to quilt so that I can make that.

Of course, looking around my apartment right now, I've got a half-finished crocheted baby blanket that was orinally meant for a kid who's now five, a bag of wool and about three yards of spun yarn, and a cross-stitch project I started in 1996. So, one more project is probably not a great idea. (The cross-stitch one is the closest to done. I bet I could finish it in a weekend if I just sat down to do it.)

Hil, what you should do is come up to Boston and stay with me for a weekend. I'll borrow my mom's machine, and we can do it together in three days. It's a really quick and easy project.

Oooh. Tempting.

See!

I'm actually a little selfish with this. I'm going to have to order FAR more fabric that I'll need...so, if I know it can go to a good home/split some of the cost, I'm all for that!

Think about it...maybe over Memorial Day weekend or something? The train is a lovely way to travel from DC to Boston!

I've just posted about my final lit project in lj: [link]

If anoyone would care to offer suggestions or tell me I'm bang out of order or something.

[link] ... late earth day greetings from JibJab.

did anyone see the FLDS wives' interview on ABC a few days ago? Really um... synchronized. [link]

eta: what the heck did I do to that link?

vw, love the quilt and I hope your stupid!group member(s) get their acts together. Perhaps Deb G would be willing to loan you her crossbow ....

O's teacher is, indeed, awesome - it's wonderful she could help out when you needed it.

And yay D for sleeping! and letting mommy sleep (you know what mommy would probably appreciate even more than something shiny - hours and hours of uninterrupted sleep!).

Sparky, those stupid students ... they deserve to burn! them and their little laptops, too! (I once snapped at someone making rude comments about a neighbor waking her up in the middle of the night, when it was because there was a chance of a fire.)

In re wine - I don't like reds and I tend to like the sweeter whites. I once had a Tokay d'Alsace that was incredible; possibly the best wine I've ever had (to my taste, at least).

Aimee, that sounds really ambitious - my best wishes. And may your throat feel better. And your trip go well. Also - have you ever read Alice Hoffman's "Property Of" - her first book and I remember it so well because it was the first book I'd ever read that treated a young woman seriously, didn't concentrate on her looks or social life.

For all the sick, hope you feel better soon! And I was on an antibiotic that had, as one of its side effects, sleeplessness. Lots of fun. It also seemed to induce really weird dreams ... I never remembered much of them, but I'd doze off for a few hours and wake up knowing I'd had one.