I've been in someone's photo files since before I could speak, so it's hard for me to process that as something limiting or undesirable. I'm sure fingerprints followed shortly afterwards.

To get a state photo ID costs whatever fee they charge for the thing itself, which may be prohibitive for some who are poor. It can only be done at certain locations which may not be easily accessible for someone who does not have a car. Also, needing things like one's birth certificate can be prohibitive insofar as those things cost not only money to replace if one doesn't happen to have one on hand (I've lost mine at least three times since getting my first drivers' license), but also generally at least a few weeks processing time. This may not sound like a heck of a lot of fuss and bother, but I have seen how long it can take, how much effort, how prohibitive this process can be for someone who is disabled. On the other hand, once registered to vote, voting itself takes place in locations that are either easily accessible, or can be done by mail, at very little cost.

I know "white trash" is highly exploited for sitcoms, and I'm totally out of the loop so I wouldn't know if it's rehashing material, but it's laugh-out-loud for me every week.

Yes, and you know, usually I get bothered with it, but RH seems to come from a place of love for the...is culture the word I'm looking for? that I just can't get mad. Also, it's not using it for cheap laughs, they're all earned, so that helps.

I think I had other things to say but my sinuses are EXPLODING. I need to go home.

I've caught a few episodes of Raising Hope after Glee and it's so freakin' funny. I need to add it to the Season Pass list.

It can only be done at certain locations which may not be easily accessible for someone who does not have a car.

And takes time that you may or may not have.

I just asked someone to postpone a meeting, but I didn't realize how many other people were invited! Oops. Now I feel a little bad, but still happy not to have the meeting this afternoon.

Also, maybe I'm going to take off Friday? Because I'm over everything.

I pretty much was anti-sitcom for just about a decade, but 30 Rock sucked me in. Then, I got sucked into "The Office", almost 100% due to the Oscar character.

Then, I saw the "Modern Warfare" ep of "Community" and I was hooked. Period. I've seen every ep of season 2, and I'm moving through Season 1 by scattershot.

I highly recommend anyone contemplating watching "Community" to start with "Modern Warfare." If you like it, then start back at the beginning. If you don't like it, the show is not your thing. I didn't like the pilot of the show much and gave up on it. Then I saw that ep and the whole world changed.

ABC doing a Titanic mini-series.

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le nubian, that's the only episode I've seen, and it was so amazing I knew I HAD to mainline the show eventually. I bought the first-season DVDs a couple weeks ago, so the time has finally come.

Our exciting but expected news of the week is that Matilda was placed at Grattan in the school lottery. So she'll be going to kindergarten next year at the school where she's currently in pre-K.

One of the biggest trends in SF schools has been language immersion programs - mostly Spanish and Chinese (Cantonese), though there are also French, Japanese and Mandarin programs.

A nearby neighborhood school on Haight Street that had been allowed to close has been rebooted as a Chinese Immersion program. The upshot of this is that there are no Chinese Americans in Matilda's incoming class at Grattan because (apparently) most local (Haight) Chinese Americans all opted to go the Chinese Immersion program. Weird. We're smack in the middle of the Haight and Grattan is going to be one of the whitest (76%) schools in the entire district.

The neighborhood has changed a lot over the years but it's not that white.

Bon, I've taken steps to acquire S1.

30 Rock was when I realised I'd given up on sitcoms, I think. I could appreciate it, but Tracy Morgan. Then I tried HIMYM, and it was like an allergic reaction.

Coupling UK was probably the last sitcom I watched before the great half hour purge.

I'm watching a surprising (for me) number of sitcoms right now, including Modern Family and Mr. Sunshine (yay.), but not Community or Raising Hope.