NE Florida is bad enough, thanks.
I was making the point to Lewis that even though we've lived in a myriad of places, including Nashville, we've always been around university communities, our circle of friends sort of naturally evolving from that proximity.
Jacksonville is the first place we haven't had that and it's the most isolated we've been and I HATE it. It's one of the most stultifying places I've ever lived. The one saving grace is that one of my best friends who is also a liberal/left-leaning writer type who has two kids very close in age to mine, lives less than a mile away.
Thank goodness, because otherwise, y'all might see me in a clock tower.
I totally want to go to the inauguration. I wonder if I can call Close Up to see if they need Program Instructors for just that week.
NE Florida is bad enough, thanks.
You could always take up Harry Crews novels. I imagine that living in Jacksonville would make them even funnier.
The puppymistress is in with the puppies and they are crawling all over her. SO CUTE.
Y'all don't know about the black belt? Billy, here. EDIT - link fixed, I hope.
Ah! Thanks for that, very interesting.
A very interesting article from The New Republic about this election as a realignment. [link]
Sad about Botox...women shooting for "young" and getting "God, what happened to her face?!"
Close Up was how I got to see the '92 inaugural for Clinton. All I really remember is Maya Angelou and a fleeting glimpse of Hillary during the parade.
And it was cold for a NMican!
It just occurred to me that my brother may get to go to the inauguration, cause he's friends with one of Obama's defense advisors. How cool would that be?
Sad about Botox...women shooting for "young" and getting "God, what happened to her face?!"
At my tenth HS reunion, the thing that was bizarre was how many of the girls had gone on Clomid to have babies. I mean, we're talking 27-28 year old women who had toddlers, so they'd been about 25 or so when they first started the drug. When I asked (since we were in the process of trying to get preggers for the first time) how long they'd tried before their doctors put them on Clomid, they almost all universally giggled and said, "Oh, a couple of months. We were just anxious."
When I got back home, I asked my OB/GYN, who by sheer accident also happened to be a fertility specialist, how long I'd have to be trying before he'd consider putting me on a drug like Clomid, he said, "Well, considering your age, your health and barring any other complications or issues, I'd say you'd have to be trying for about eighteen months before I'd consider it."
Ten years later, Clomid was apparently replaced by Botox, judging by the pictures I saw. (Just couldn't cope with actually attending.)
I had Botox. I consider it a moral failing, but perhaps I have issues.
I also have bruises. Patchwork territory from elbows to knuckles and I keep bumping them. Price of having small veins and being a hard stick. For every correctly positioned IV there are three or four failures.
