Aw, Sophia. I know how that goes.... Christmas Day I was weirdly disappointed that no one had given me Mindy Kaling's book, like, "Don't they know me at all??" And when my cousin gave it to me a week later, I started crying. Um.
This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Jesse - Mar 16, 2012 1:23:28 pm PDT #26878 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sheryl - Mar 16, 2012 1:25:03 pm PDT #26879 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Quiet weekend here. Probably a good bit of basketball watching. And another trip to the library tomorrow. (Am trying to read the Agatha nominees for best novel, best first novel and best historical by Malice Domestic, which is at the end of April.)
Consuela - Mar 16, 2012 1:46:21 pm PDT #26880 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, man, i love my nieces. They are smart and fun and informed about, like, politics and sexuality, and athletic and giving, and aware of their privilege, and they're both going to make the world a better place.
Iow, just had yet another great talk over tapas and drinks in a bar in Granada. I'm sad, the older one goes back to Galicia on Sunday, although i get to travel with the younger one for another week.
Also? I would never survive on a Spanish schedule. At 11pm, they are justgetting started for the evening. Oy.
Hil R. - Mar 16, 2012 2:25:19 pm PDT #26881 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Heh. My 12-year-old cousin wrote an essay, and her mother posted it to facebook, and now it's made it to Huffington Post. [link]
Jessica - Mar 16, 2012 2:37:16 pm PDT #26882 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've been thinking about doing some public refuting, but so many of my kids are engaging in social justice activity for the first time I hate to quash it. They can't afford to give, so I'm not worried about money going to a questionable charity. But it might be time for another round of "more than tokenism" posts on facebook.
I think the best thing coming out of the whole Kony 2012 phenomenon is that there's been almost as much press about how taking online calls to activism at face value is a bad idea because Invisible Children is a pretty sketchy "charity" and their account of what's going on in Uganda is dangerously oversimplified and so on and so forth, that I feel like most people are coming out of this more informed than when they started.
Jesse - Mar 16, 2012 2:41:11 pm PDT #26883 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. My 12-year-old cousin wrote an essay, and her mother posted it to facebook, and now it's made it to Huffington Post.
Cute!
sumi - Mar 16, 2012 2:55:15 pm PDT #26884 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
So cute.
amych - Mar 16, 2012 2:56:27 pm PDT #26885 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
OMGWTFBAGEL!
SailAweigh - Mar 16, 2012 3:00:00 pm PDT #26886 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
At 11pm, they are justgetting started for the evening
That's early. Any self-respecting Spaniard doesn't make it to the bars until midnight or later.
Ginger - Mar 16, 2012 3:02:04 pm PDT #26887 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
They're all muffins. Fried muffins.