I had a whole section about civic pride.

Mayor ,'Chosen'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Lee - Dec 12, 2008 5:15:59 pm PST #5896 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Hall and Oates.

Our Christmas party was today, though there is another one next Friday (for SF and Palo Alto). There was wine, but no shrimp.


Kat - Dec 12, 2008 5:20:59 pm PST #5897 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

We have no christmas party. Boo. Hiss.

I should go do dishes. Since K left I haven't really set foot in the kitchen.

Also, I'm finishing up A Thousand Splendid Suns. I love Housseini's writing and his storytelling is wonderful. But it pains me to read his books.


sarameg - Dec 12, 2008 5:28:11 pm PST #5898 of 10002

Kat, everytime I visit, Gracie has an episode of some sort. I'd take offense (and hell, I'd be fine if you take offense!) but I love the girl and don't want to be her Typhoid Mary, and sure as hell you aren't. Let's just call it chalking up the drama for mama.

Thoroughly enjoyed Kite Runner.

Still remote-sitting, but girly is at least home, tying up the phone line.


Kat - Dec 12, 2008 5:31:11 pm PST #5899 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I thought Kite Runner was lovely. And sad. AND this one? Quite fantastic. But so upsetting. By the way, sarameg, did you like Word Freak?


sarameg - Dec 12, 2008 5:38:21 pm PST #5900 of 10002

I read Kite Runner along with Black Tulip, Bookseller of Kabul and I think the Sewing Circle of Herat one. Or at least I grouped them mentally. Was incredibly sobering.

I'm 95% through WG. And yeah, enjoying it, but it is so weird. I mean, I'm pretty damned geeky, but this goes beyond my geekdom into obsessive.

How are K& Noah doing? Talked to my Boise bf and she said a cold front was coming so they went out and bought pink snowboots for her daughter. I laughed because she was so anti-pink, only most likely her kid loves pink!


Kat - Dec 12, 2008 5:42:18 pm PST #5901 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Noah is Mr. Cold. His Aunt Ness arrived last night so he's had a new person to entertain him.

I miss him.


sarameg - Dec 12, 2008 5:43:48 pm PST #5902 of 10002

So he's like me and Doesn't Approve of Winter? Glad he has fun peoples. Sorry you miss him. Soon.


Kat - Dec 12, 2008 5:44:58 pm PST #5903 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Very soon. Can't way to see him.

No. He likes the cold, but he doesn't handle it well. It's been really really cold there, and relatively dry.


sarameg - Dec 12, 2008 5:49:32 pm PST #5904 of 10002

I don't like the cold and I don't handle it well. I whine.

I've had a bloody nose since I got back. It's kind of ridic, you'd think LA was drier, but not with forced air heat! I've been running the penguin humidifier but I still wake up parched and voiceless,


Kat - Dec 12, 2008 5:51:20 pm PST #5905 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

poor sara.

I am watching Pushing Daisies as my DSM antidote. I have one more DSM episode to go.