Oh, geez, ita. Yeah crying. (relatedly, this week is the 2 yr anniversary of Bob getting his tumor removed and this morning he got another all clear report from his oncologist and he doesn't need to go back for 6 whole months!!)

Will have to check that site later, I have students waiting outside. oy!

Why is my head full of cotton wool?

Consuela, if you have a chance, the Thyssen-Bornemizsa (sp?) is only a couple blocks IIRC from the Prado--and is pretty awesome, if you're less into Madonna-and-Child and more into anything modernish (past 150 years?)

Marriage equality repeal defeated, 202-133 in New Hampshire! [link]

Wow, this is a fascinating "Black men in hoodies" thread: [link]

Some amazing "tone argument" and derailing going on. I don't know if I have the strength to read it all, but some of the sensible comments are really rather sensible.

I am extra, uber creeped out by the discussion, because for a large segment of Supernatural fandom, the hoodie is a sign of woobieness. You say "hoodie" to a Dean!girl, and she's thinking of this.

It makes me sick, the flip side, the people arguing that all black guys have to do is stop wearing hoodies and then people will stop killing them. You know how guns don't kill people? Wearing hoodies doesn't kill people either.

You know how guns don't kill people? Wearing hoodies doesn't kill people either.

What is wrong with people that you even have to say that?

What is wrong with people that you even have to say that?

This is the other reason I want to cry today. Reading people apparently sincerely saying "Well, if the homeless didn't dress like they were homeless, people would treat them better."

Oh, okay. You've solved the whole thing. Thought of a solution no one else was bright enough to think of before.

It really makes me feel sick.

Holy shit, ita !, that's some truly jawdropping un-self-awareness.

Organizer: Trayvon Martin was "read" as a thug because he was a young black man in a hoodie. We need to change this misperception.

Clueless Person: But, eek! The person in that picture *does* look like a thug in a hoodie!

Organizer: That person is *me*. That's the point, that not everyone wearing a hoodie is a thug.

Clueless Person: No, of course you're not personally a thug, but you must realize that when you wear a hoodie, you certainly do look like one. Don't you know that?

Organizer: ...

Just, holy shit.

Apropos of that discussion, this is possibly one of the most bitterly funny comments I've seen on the whole hideous tragedy (heavy, heavy emphasis on bitterly).

I have still never heard "Rolling in the Deep."

I heard it for the first time at the Grammys. And it's come up on my Pandora a couple times, and, yeah, it is a really good song! Haven't heard "Someone Like You," though. I think it's come up on Pandora once or twice, but I haven't really listened to it.

In other news, it's been six years of getting along with all my co-workers, but I want to punch our new medical director in the face ALL THE TIME (this is the one with no social skills at all). She makes my skin crawl. I have no idea how the fuck we hired her; none of us interviewed her, despite the fact that we all interview basically every single other person we hire. One of my co-workers says that medical directors are generally crazy, and the one we have as a consultant is an anomaly for being cool and understanding, but graaaah. You can't come in here and overturn policies we have repeatedly argued about and come to the same conclusion year after year.

People suck.

Congrats on Bob's all clear report Lisa.

I went for a screening mammogram today. That was very odd. They didn't ever try to play lip service to modesty--they told me to strip to the waist in the consulting room and then to come on over into the adjoining radiology room...no robe, nothing. I didn't know if there were going to be other techs in there or not. (There weren't.) It's a good thing I don't have nudity issues. Never mind the other person manipulating your boob and body into the proper position weirdness.