Trust Matilda's awesome shoe expertise! Just look at those adorable things she's wearing herself!

Matilda has found your F2F avatar.

Oh. My. Goodness. That's, like, the very best thing that could happen to an avatar in the history of the world. I mean, being snuggled by all that adorableness (and, oh, my, what a big, beautiful girl!), and being able to stare back at that face, and - oh, my. At least, if I can't cuddle her myself, this little doll can. And, oh, it held on so well!

This may be the most adorable thing in the world. Her little neck and the back of her neck and the delicate way it curves and becomes cheeks and chins and shoulders and little curls and all the rest of her - I'm a little pile of goo typing right now. Spelling is a very accomplished thing to do, when you're goo.

And now I'm even more melty, thinking about how, when that doll went around the world and around several places in the US, for the first F2F, Matilda hadn't even begun - OK, I'm stopping now, before Hallmark cards get a sugar overdose from me. But I may still think this stuff quietly, OK?

[Edit:

I just called Gal to ask when I'll be able to bring it to her (I think you might know her - she started her stage design studies this year, a friend of Chen's?)

I'm afraid I know neither. Maybe I can recognize their faces, but definitely not their names. Sorry. Also, of course, good luck with the shoes!]

I don't mind Tony, actually, but I could live without him, in a way that I could not Abby or Ducky. I am disappointed McGee and Abby stopped undating, though.

At first, Gibbs was curmudgeonly and brusque, but now he's downright a-word-that-means-has-no-respect-for-others'-rights. Cheneyesque, I suppose. Glad to hear I'm not alone.

Nilly! Do you know of Yael Naim? Her album is one of the purchases that arrived this weekend, and I love it! (Other purchases were Annie Lennox's new album and a book of papers on undecidability.)

But I may still think this stuff quietly, OK?

NO. Quietly is NOT OKAY. Please to continue thinking this stuff out loud!

Those pictures were from Saturday. Yesterday, sadly, Matilda was a little rougher on Little Nilly, dragging it along the sidewalks of Berkeley like a puppy on a leash until I made her pick it up and be a little more tender. The poor thing stopped BOING-ing about a year ago; it still coils and springs, but the only sound it makes is a sort of crackling hiss that gets higher and thinner and finally peters out (or possibly goes up into a frequency that only dogs can hear). It's still terribly cute, though.

I'm afraid I know neither. Maybe I can recognize their faces, but definitely not their names.

I think you know them both, by face.

And thank you all, especially Matilda, for the shoes wishes, but I'm afraid it's not going to happen anytime soon.

about the US building an additional moon

Out of cheese, I assume?

Nilly! Do you know of Yael Naim?

I'm not Nilly, but I've heard a lot about her.

about the US building an additional moon

"That's no moon - it's a space station!"

Do you know of Yael Naim? Her album is one of the purchases that arrived this weekend, and I love it!

Everybody here is talking about her, because of her new current international success. I only got to hear the one song that's being playing on the radio around here, and I liked it a lot. It's great to read that the whole album is good!

"Naim" means pleasant (or nice).

Please to continue thinking this stuff out loud!

Yay! Some other time, though, OK? I really really have to go now.

t Trying to pour all the goo-that-is-me into my backpack.

t Wondering, if I'm the goo in the backpack, who will carry the backpack home? Who watches the watchers? Who un-boings the dolls who don't boing anymore?

[Edit: OK, really leaving now. Bye, y'all!]

There are window-washers outside on the building next to mine, and the platform they're on keeps catching on the windowsills as they move down, and tilting backwards just a little bit. It's very tense!