Life can be sort of peaceful when you stop struggling.

I've heard that said of drowning, too.

So close! The correct response was, "It's a lot like drowning that way."

It was also cool since my son was listening with me to have Obama say the same stuff I tell the kids about education. "See, the president agrees with me."

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

A woman just called me to try to get me to purchase subscription packages for the theatre. I told her I was really only interested in one of the plays next season, but she tried to sell me on at least one other and said there was a three-play package, and I could give the other one as a gift if I didn't use.

Three plays, orchestra seats, for $166, she said. You can't even go to the movies for that much, she said.

WHAT THE FUCK MOVIES IS SHE GOING TO SEE?

moon landing -- neighbor's house. Kids on the floor, adults on the couch. I was interested, but found it hard to stay awake.

Love The Dish.

I had lunch with an Indian woman with an arranged marriage. She was happy, but worried how she was going to help her kids through dating.

also knew an exchange studen tfrom Turkey . She was going home to an arranged marriage. After seeing the American High School dating scene - she was in no way convinced that her traditions were wrong.

I also have a memory of a memory (perhaps what I imagined as my mum told me where I was) during Challenger's end. Must have been kindergarten. We were watching it in the classroom.

Watching Ricky Gervais. Is it sad that I know him first through Sesame Street?

I want dinner, but I would prefer it to magically appear.

Joe and I just watched the Apollo 11 launch via You Tube. Yay modern world!

I made a really nummy stir fry tonight. K-Bug's friend, who isn't really into veggies, ate everything!

Challenger memory: I was a sophomore in college and had just got out of my morning classes. I'd stopped by the corner store to pick up a diet coke and the Tribune, and heard the radio they were piping over the store's sound system playing the launch, and was thinking, "Why are they playing yet another shuttle launch?" when I really started to listen to what was being said (the radio was replaying the explosion that had happened about 30 minutes before while I was in class). "Oh, my God, the thing BLEW UP??!?" was my question to the clerk at the register, then I ran back to my dorm and turned on my 11" B&W tv.

Obama speech reaction: Rachel was playing the end of the speech at the beginning of her show. I thought that he couldn't sound any more like a Baptist preacher--that cadence was pouring out of him. I'll have to read the transcript because I kept getting distracted by his delivery.

Oh, he really did have his preacher man thing going on, but nice content.