Strength and comfort~ma to all of you, sj. And ~ma to Seska's father in law.

did I mention I'm in Israel at the beginning of next month?!

Whoo-hooo! It's a date, baby - I'll come anywhere (though I'd love to show you around Mount Scopus, too).

Edit: not my day with typing.

I have to wait until I get home to look at Seska's pictures (because my work computer is WAY too slow) and it is KILLING me to wait!

Damn allergies. [link]

Fantastic pictures! You both look lovely and so very happy. As is right and proper.

I have new-ish hair.

Instead of taking off 4+ inches as I'd expected we'd do, my lovely stylist convinced me to only take off two inches and add in a lot more layering (which I'd expected to do regardless) and surprise, surprise, my hair, which has been waving slightly for the past few years, revealed itself to have really deep waves and even some curl! Go figure.

JZ, all I'd need is a minion running ahead to whistle "Farmer in the Dell" and, presto, Gimp!Omar. Indeed. Although it's not actually hard to be above this place.

Congratulations, Seska!

you can no longer make the assumption that (to use Burrell's example from way above), "The pregnant woman should talk to her doctor," is correct

Wait--surely if you've established woman you've established her? Otherwise I have little else to hold onto.

TiVo has grabbed an episode of Real Sex for me. Oh, lordie. HBO has been doing all this all this time? I'm so naive.

(Again, the irony, it burns.)

Literally?

It's what happens when you have too many ironies in the fire.

Wait--surely if you've established woman you've established her?

No, I meant that both "woman" and "her" (I'm linking them for the purposes of this example) aren't always going to apply when talking about pregnancy.

I'm with you on the assumption that once you've established woman, then the pronoun would be "her."

I meant that both "woman" and "her" (I'm linking them for the purposes of this example) aren't always going to apply when talking about pregnancy.

Oh, okay. Because Burrell's example was "woman" and "their", which I agree is hella clumsy.

I don't see why academic writing never has occasion to refer to unknown genders, and I'm never going to err on the side of assigning gender for no reason, but if you do know and have already specified, why the hell not just keep saying so?