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.

WTG Dylan!

Sleep wasn't so kind to me. I found some benadryl in the medicine cabinet and took it at bedtime, and I was fine until 4:30 in the morning, at which point something woke me. And DH was snoring. And snoring. He's not usually so noisy, but he's had cold/allergy issues the past few days.

I started by turning up the thermostat until the heater kicked on, even though it wasn't especially cold, hoping that the blower would run long enough that I'd fall asleep. Didn't work. Then I tiptoed downstairs to try to sleep on the couch, only to discover that was worse, because apparently at 5:00 a.m. the birds are waking up and starting to sing, and the song echoes down the chimney so you can hear it in the living room by the fireplace, but NSM upstairs in the bedroom. So I crept back upstairs, and DH woke up long enough to realize what was going on and roll onto his stomach, which quieted the snores enough that I fell asleep around 5:30 or 5:45...only to wake up at 6:15, 15 minutes before the alarm, because Annabel woke up and climbed into bed with us.

So now I feel sleep-deprived and vaguely drugged.