I'd sleep again, but I don't want to be awakened by the dog for the third time today. Then I'll have to kill someone.

But I'm going to see Rona Kenan today, and there will be a new ep of Rescue Me. Things will be good. And on Sunday, after The Great Home Search I'll go and meet some very dear friends, followed by a day and a half at ICon. [link]

I won't miss this by any chance [link] (Beker is one hell of a great lecturer), also planning to go there [link] and [link]

I'm gonna miss any bit of Jossverse lectures, but frankly, besides this one, which will be given by a dear friend of mine which I'll meet on Sunday: [link] (for full disclosure, I was a part of the group that helped him translate, and was named after one of the best/nutritiously translated expressions from BtVS here for "the hotness of you, doofus". I can't even begin to think of a way to translate it back to English, but it... raised some debates here. Personally, I thought it was brilliant).

So, good things to come. That's just why I wanted not to be sick, you know.

Shir, that lecture sounds wonderful, and how much fun it must have been to translate Buffy! Excruciating fun, at times, I'm sure.

Sorry you couldn't sleep.

Shir, those lectures sound fantastic. I am jealous. Please follow up with reports on how they were!

how much fun it must have been to translate Buffy!

I only helped from time to time. And mostly, they didn't take my vote (again, I'm one of the rare who loved the translation to "the hotness of you, doofus"). Still, yes, it was very fun. I can't believe it was so long ago. How time flies.

I now see I started a sentence which I didn't end. I meant to say I'll miss all of the Jossverse lectures, but besides that translation lecture I don't really care. One is about Dr. Horrible, and will hardly bear any new information to me about it. The other is about L.A.'s role as a modern Camelot in vampire stories, which sounds boring to me (plus, the lecturer isn't very interesting).

I was supposed to lecture there, actually, but that plan was forsaken. Probably will do on another sci-fi convention. The idea is to look at the daily lives of the futuristic sci-fi programs: how's the bad hair day affects the warrior heroine, what kind of forms you need to sign before you take your space shuttle for a ride, the favorite brand of coffee, and how the whole daily environment affects the lives of the one who live in these stories. The moral goes that until we'll have our Sex and the City of the sci-fi, with the attention to all of those details and not just the big moral questions, we won't really know - and I think it's a big deal I'd like to know more about and gets left behind.

Now, I gotta be a Good Girl and almost finish to pack my room.

I'd have very stunted children.

No you wouldn't. Trust me.

Our flirtation with Wiggles was fairly brief, but compared to some of the other children's fare out there, it's relatively harmless. What was interesting was that the original Yellow Wiggle, Greg, is apparently an amazing cabaret singer. He did a few dates in the U.S. before he was diagnosed with the heart ailment that ultimately caused him to leave the Wiggles.

What the heck are Wiggles?

Zenkitty is obviously not the parent of a toddler or preschooler.

(I'm on My phone but I'm sure someone else will link.)

The Wiggles are an Australian singing group aimed at young kids. Both my kids love their stuff and will dance around for 30+ minutes. This makes me *love* the Wiggles, especially the hot, Blue Wiggle-Anthony? They also have a TV show and toys and I think they do concerts too.

Well, as long as it's not the Red Wiggle. Of course, this leaves open the question of whether we're talking about Original Yellow Wiggle or New and Improved Yellow Wiggle.

I had to look it up. New Yellow Wiggle.

NY Times article about the Wiggles from a few years ago: [link]