Oh Connie. {{Connie}} I hope this will be the easiest chemo ever taken.

Katerina, I cannot believe your neighbor. There's got to be something that could be done. Mafia friends, dark magic, using his place to shoot porn, something. I'm sorry you have to deal with this.

omnis, sorry to hear you had to work anyhow.

It's a Saturday morning here, and I'm pretty much in love with life thanks to great music, a dog, and sleep. Now, of course, I have to get back and study. Hopefully I could get all of this done in about 3 hours. I think it's possible, and then getting back to my weekend of simple leisures. I'm so easy.

Oh, and the restaurant with a friend yesterday thingy was amazing. Food is good, not incredible, though, but the mere fact that they're a 24/7 non-kosher place in the middle of J-city and they're open and successful is (and I thought I live in an armed theocracy...). Definitely going back there for more.

Connie, I hope your sister's chemo is fully effective and brief.

In a different, whiny, mememe tangent, why can't I sleep past 7 am when I'm awake until 2 am the previous evening? Why?

Connie, much ~ma to your sister and your whole family.

Shir, your approach to Saturday is fab.

There's got to be something that could be done. Mafia friends, dark magic, using his place to shoot porn, something.

Yes! And we will organize all of this at Katerina's yard party.

Wake Up Without Hugh Laurie: [link]

ma~~~ for your sister Connie

I'm sorry, Connie. I hope your sister's chemo is effective. It has to be a plus that she is in good health otherwise.

Absurdly lazy this morning. I had a headache when I woke up at 6, so I just fed the animals and went back to bed with aspirin. Stayed there a few hours. I still haven't done anything more ambitious than make a pot of tea and catch up on the internet. Need to get going, and yet.

{{{Connie}}} Tons of ~ma for your sister.

I don't want to re-open a can of worms here, but remember the recent conversation about ableist language?

I know this is something I have to decide for myself, but as I read blogs by (mostly) women with disabilities, I'm increasingly thrown for a loop as word after word gets called out as an ableist word.

Such as "intelligence." Really??? I don't get that one. Even reading that whole entry, I don't get it. Or perhaps what I mean is that I don't agree with it. But then I don't know to what degree my lack of agreement is clinging to my privilege.

I just don't know.

I know this is something I have to decide for myself, but as I read blogs by (mostly) women with disabilities, I'm increasingly thrown for a loop as word after word gets called out as an ableist word.

As I worked through it in my discussion with smonster I think it's counterproductive to follow every logical parallel to an offensive phrase to its conclusion. I think that curbing the language use needs to be in response to specific instances of objection, and shouldn't be a broadly generalized principle.

Her specific gripe seems to be with the politics of intelligence testing.