It was very cool. I was all, hey, it's from Kate! Good stuff on there, too.
Thanks! I just started handling the newsletter in June, and we just switched to the new layout, so I still feel like I'm learning how to put it all together, but I enjoy doing it -- it keeps me more involved in the kids' side of things, which I like.
Hil, I remember that (but it was local news at the time for me).
ita ! the thumbnails came up - you're insanely glamorous in those! I can understand loving that silvery (looks blue-silver to me) dress. And is that your fancy evening purse?
Hil, I didn't remember ever being aware of a Deaf President Now protest. However, after Googling, it seems vaguely familiar, but I'm not sure whether I knew of it at the time or only later. (It happened about 6 months before I moved to DC.)
ita !'s whole family is gorgeous. It's impressive.
Ha, this is awesome: Trinity 'expels' barbarian teacher
Trinity College Dublin has said it is taking seriously an incident in which a profile page, complete with image, was inserted on its website for a fake staff member named ‘Dr Conan T. Barbarian’.
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The profile went on to say Dr Barbarian completed his PhD, entitled ‘To Hear The Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature’ at UCD and was appointed to the School of English in 2006, “after sucessfully decapitating his predecessor during a bloody battle which will long be remembered in legend and song”.
I've never heard of either thing. But I feel like I would have known about it were I a little older.
Do you know what the phrases "Deaf President Now" or "Deaf Protest of 1988" refer to, without looking it up?
Can't say I've heard of them, but could guess what they were about.
I had no idea of the Deaf President Now protest. It didn't register for me at the time, as I was pretty wrapped up in Canadian politics and ignoring US stuff. (Look, the late 80s were politically very interesting in Canada.)
I do wonder if there's a difference in the group of people who were adults in 1988?