I know summer's coming on Memorial Day, but it always feels like official summer when school is out for the kids. Summer is definitely a "no school" thing more than a weather thing for me.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jun 21, 2011 7:19:39 am PDT #13582 of 30001
Because books.
zuisa - Jun 21, 2011 7:24:25 am PDT #13583 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Yeah, I always associated summer with no school more than with it being hot as well.
I am trying to send someone an email, and I swear I used to be able to effectively articulate my feelings through writing. And here I am failing miserably. I guess it gets harder when you are writing to people you care about?
I also just sent mail to another good friend I am DYING to tell this one story to, but I'm really not sure it's a story I'm supposed to be telling anyone, especially when she knows the other person in question, and so instead of just keeping my mouth shut she got this horribly cryptic email. I clearly need to learn to either just shut up or get it out.
brenda m - Jun 21, 2011 7:24:43 am PDT #13584 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Public schools here just got out on Friday. (I know this because I live across the street from an elementary school and on school days you can't park on that side of the street. So I pay attention.)
Summer schools starts tomorrow.
The solstices/equinoxes (equinoxi?) don't really line up all that well for this part of the world so I've never regarded them. I get a little irritated when people harp on it, frankly.
tommyrot - Jun 21, 2011 7:29:28 am PDT #13585 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.
The solstices/equinoxes (equinoxi?) don't really line up all that well for this part of the world so I've never regarded them. I get a little irritated when people harp on it, frankly.
But Summer Solstice makes it official!
Yeah, by the time Summer Solstice arrives, I feel like, "Hey, it's been Summer for almost a month now."
Jesse - Jun 21, 2011 7:33:57 am PDT #13586 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The last day of school in Boston isn't until next Tuesday.
zuisa - Jun 21, 2011 7:35:19 am PDT #13587 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Not until next Tuesday? Wow. I knew school was still in, but didn't know it was THAT far from now. My family was at Castle Island yesterday and we were astounded by how quiet it was there, but then we realized that school was still on.
Jesse - Jun 21, 2011 7:36:24 am PDT #13588 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, it was a pretty snowy winter.... My cousin on the south shore gets out Friday, I think.
zuisa - Jun 21, 2011 7:38:07 am PDT #13589 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Yeah, I managed to escape the snow by late January, but December and January were really just a big snowy mess. It made arriving in the sunny Southern Hemisphere all the more exciting!
Strix - Jun 21, 2011 7:42:31 am PDT #13590 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Jesse, that is INSANE late, even with snow days! I hope they don't have to go back until after Labor Day.
I hate when schools go back in the beginning of August. It just doesn't feel right.
You go back to school in September! In the fall, at least month-wise.
You should still be swimming and watching TV on August 15th.
Consuela - Jun 21, 2011 7:45:05 am PDT #13591 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I get that there is an unreachable "ideal" for men, but what's pernicious (Pernicious!!) is how TV especially is full of men who don't meet that ideal, but are partnered with women who meet theirs, or at least are much closer than the men are.
Word, Jesse. Also commercials and movies: the hapless guy who is a slob and just wants to watch sports and eat Doritos, married to a pretty harridan who makes him take his feet off the coffee table.
As long as Judd Apatow keeps making hugely-popular movies, I will not believe that the social construction of masculinity is more damaging than the social construction of femininity.