Connie, much ~ma to your sister and your whole family.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
WindSparrow - Nov 21, 2009 3:30:38 am PST #1211 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 21, 2009 4:31:38 am PST #1212 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
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]
beth b - Nov 21, 2009 5:41:11 am PST #1213 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ma~~~ for your sister Connie
Laura - Nov 21, 2009 5:55:43 am PST #1214 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
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.
sj - Nov 21, 2009 6:35:07 am PST #1215 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{Connie}}} Tons of ~ma for your sister.
Steph L. - Nov 21, 2009 6:56:09 am PST #1216 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
DavidS - Nov 21, 2009 7:08:21 am PST #1217 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
DavidS - Nov 21, 2009 7:10:11 am PST #1218 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Her specific gripe seems to be with the politics of intelligence testing.
erikaj - Nov 21, 2009 8:37:50 am PST #1219 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
If a person can't have a disability and be snobbish about her intellectual gifts, the terrorists have won, Teppy. But I confound nearly every educational theorist who's ever met me anyway.Because I'm both Gifted and LD.(maybe a lot of people are?) but testers are always flummoxed.
sj - Nov 21, 2009 8:42:00 am PST #1220 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
If a person can't have a disability and be snobbish about her intellectual gifts, the terrorists have won, Teppy. But I confound nearly every educational theorist who's ever met me anyway.Because I'm both Gifted and LD.(maybe a lot of people are?) but testers are always flummoxed.
Bwah! Yes, I would be more offended with the automatic assumption that one cannot be both disabled and intelligent. An assumption I have encountered more than once.