I'll be spending the weekend huddled over a laptop trying to finish several writing projects which are due.
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jan 21, 2011 7:21:21 am PST #17980 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2011 7:29:42 am PST #17981 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have no concrete plans for the weekend, although I'd like to say...sleep. Trying to learn to do new things with GIMP, I guess.
flea - Jan 21, 2011 7:31:32 am PST #17982 of 30001
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We are going to an open-house star-watch at the Astronomy department tonight, and probably to an open house at a local park's historic log cabin on Saturday. Plus the usual round of laundry, vacuuming, grocery shopping, dance class for Casper.
tommyrot - Jan 21, 2011 7:33:56 am PST #17983 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From the Onion News Network (i.e. a video) Morbid Curiosity Leading Many Voters To Support Palin
A recent poll shows 62% of Americans say they don't want to vote for Palin, but kinda just have to see what would happen. Onion News Network premieres on IFC on Friday at 10pm.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 21, 2011 7:34:58 am PST #17984 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
this weekend is blissfully plan-free, though we will likely try to get Tom brewing during it. And also go to the burger pop-up in our hood for the Benedict Burger (burger topped with fried egg, pancetta, and hollandaise.)
Other than that, though, sleep and lounging.
Hil R. - Jan 21, 2011 7:37:01 am PST #17985 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Probably just staying in and doing laundry and stuff. Cooking food for the week. I'm going to try to get to synagogue either tonight or tomorrow.
DavidS - Jan 21, 2011 7:37:25 am PST #17986 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
flea, were your ears burning last night? Emmett and I were talking about you as we were studying for his Catcher in the Rye final. (Holden's little sister sharing a name with you.)
Consuela - Jan 21, 2011 7:38:09 am PST #17987 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
what are people doing this weekend
Dealing with my folks (sigh), ushering at the theater on Saturday night (I think it's a one-man comedy show, not sure), doing an interview for a fannish podcast on Sunday. That ought to be interesting, or something. New, anyway.
Tonight I'll sit home and read, I think.
Strix - Jan 21, 2011 7:38:29 am PST #17988 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ugh, tommyrot, that link is so depressing.
"Hur, I wonder what would happen if I stuck my hand in the wood chipper? That might be cool! Let's see what would happen!"
tommyrot - Jan 21, 2011 7:38:35 am PST #17989 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, this is pretty cool.
Obama's daughter, Sasha, practices Chinese with Hu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Talk about a high level language exchange.
President Barack Obama's nine-year-old daughter, Sasha, wanted to test her developing Chinese skills this week while Hu Jintao was in town.
Just whom did she want to practice them with?
The Chinese president himself, according to a White House official who recounted the story on Thursday after a formal state dinner the previous night.
"The president pointed out last night at the state dinner that his daughter, Sasha, is a very young girl but her class is studying Chinese," Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser, told a video conference with Chinese bloggers.
"She's under 10 years old and they're studying Chinese, and she wanted to have the chance to practice her Chinese with President Hu."
Sasha attended Hu's welcoming ceremony on the White House lawn on Wednesday morning with friends and could be seen waving a Chinese flag excitedly as her father and Hu walked around the grounds.
The two presidents paused to visit when they reached the nine-year-old and her friends behind the rope line.
"Not every (child) has the opportunity to try out their first phrases of Chinese with the president of China, but she had that chance," Rhodes said.
He said the anecdote illustrated Americans' desire to get to know China better with more people studying the country and doing business there.