'Underneath'
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.
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.
So does anyone want to see my retinas? [link]
Your retinas are the coolest thing ever! In true Buffista synchronicity, I went to the eye doctor today, too, but all I got for my troubles was the yellow corner of the eye crust from that weird dye they use to look at you.
Oh, and a free pair of trial contacts, and the news that I don't need new glasses (still! since 2002!) and I don't have glaucoma. So really, pretty good on the whole.
I also don't have glaucoma! It only took one try to do the test--sometimes it takes a lot more, because I flinch like a mofo.
I do however need new glasses, but I knew I would.