Please tell me that everything being shut down and gridlocked around here due to the freakish weather isn't A Sign for my book release?

Although I suppose I ought to be grateful my signing/launch isn't for another two weeks...

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It is not A Sign, Barb. All the very best for the launch and signing! So exciting. I'll be looking out for your book - I'll report back on how many I see in UK bookshops!

Not until I got to college did I realize how awesome I have it with my own slightly-fucked up but wonderfully goofy family that loves me.

Good, isn't it? It wasn't until I met The Girl that I understood that, despite my family's very substantial fucked-up-ness, I am still one of the luckiest people ever because they love me and would do anything for me. Partly because I got to compare them with her family. Also because of the utterly unconditional welcome they gave her into our family. (My father actually told her 'welcome to the family' when he met her, about a month after we started dating. You've never seen someone look so scared.)

smonster, I hope your mom doesn't have too much of a hard time adjusting if your plans work out.

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Good luck with your family, smonster.

Nothing but a world of hugs and support to you and your brother and his girlfriend, P-C.

Not A Sign, Barb.

And now, I have come to point you to this:

But did you correct your results using a dead salmon? [link]

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Please tell me that everything being shut down and gridlocked around here due to the freakish weather isn't A Sign for my book release?

In New York, the theater crowds superstitions say rain on opening night was a great sign of good luck. So? Freakish weather indicates best seller, right?

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But did you correct your results using a dead salmon?

"Either we have stumbled onto a rather amazing discovery in terms of post-mortem ichthyological cognition, or there is something a bit off with regard to our uncorrected statistical approach."

Genius. I'll be showing that to all my quantitative researcher colleagues, then.

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I wonder on the effects of historiographical papers on periodization's relevance to Eastern Europe on dead salmons, for one.

I guess I'll have to live with the curiosity.

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Interrrrresting dead salmon. Also, kudos to the author for the Monty Python reference. I did kinda hear the rest of the article in John Cleese's voice.

P-C, strength~ma to you and your siblings. I'm glad you have each other.

I think no one here will be surprised to hear that cat makes me happy. Shoot, if it weren't for my cats, I'd have nothing to talk about half the time. The individuals I support at work frequently ask about them, and they talking about them makes a great distraction from less pleasant topics of conversation.

Barb, your book release is going to go just fine, weather or no weather.

smonster, I'm glad that your mother is able to express her feelings to you without it causing unfair guilt.

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Plei is the henna expert, but everything I've read says it needs a loooooooooooooooooong time to set. Like, several hours.

My hair is once again a nice dark purple which means people will finally stop saying "Oh, your purple hair is gone!" when they pass me in the hallway at work.

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Wow, you guys.

Tel Aviv city council member just emailed me about Hollaback Israel, asking to meet with me and talk about how to make the streets of Tel Aviv-Yafo safer to women. With laws and whatnot.

This goes further beyond what I thought it'll be.

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Shir! You're such a fucking rock star! I'm so proud to know you.

Damn. Lost another Fresh Maker today. Late too many times. Tough ass kid who's been to prison nearly cried. Such a fucking bummer.

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