Lois Lane is pretty much as high profile as many of the women, isn't she?
My sister keeps emailing me requests for research. This is because of the wifi thing, I bet. But I'm looking up whether Churchill quoted Claude McKay without giving credit (unsubstantiated, but oft repeated). In response she sent me a video of Maroons dancing.
And if you have a witty comment, save it. The Maroons were escaped slaves--nowhere to go but up in jamaica, and they took to the hills, and hid and waged such effective guerilla warfare that when the island was changing hands, the British colonials used them to help fight the outgoing Spaniards. They got out soon enough that they didn't lose as much culture, and still live in a couple communities outside the city. She tells me a group of Maroons from Jamaica met some Surinames Maroons, and they had language in common.
Sounds like a good time for an anthropologist. Field day.
I had someone explain to me that the lilt of the Jamaican accent was from the Irish, and they represented the large portion of the white people there. Except when I got taught it, and I look in the newspapers, it's the Scots. Kinda weird.
I know not everything you learn in school is right, but there's a certain assumption in Ja that it's a Scottish thing. And the names that go back, Scottish. Definitely Irish and Welsh people moving there, but the whole tam thing, and the tartan and the like.
Stay safe, Stephanie.
I hope it does--the past six months got me much closer to my mother, and changed my life in a number of positive ways, even though I'd give it all back for her never to have been sick. The "face" I put on to cheer her up is really me, and it's one of the best sides of me, and this whole deal made me pull *that* ita ! out of my back pocket more, and for other people too. I'm still sick and whiny and in pain, but I know I can kick it up to eleven and exceed people's expectations in ways I honestly had no idea about before.
I've found places where I can cope with a lot more than I'd have thought possible. I've also found some limits. It's all really valuable knowledge that I wish I hadn't had to know so concretely but now I do know it, so I use it.
The phone thing is just that my dad haven't even talked a lot on the phone and even when we did, it was when we were both along on our respective sides of the phone. And mom hovers over him now. Especially on the phone. She wants to listen and, I guess judge how well he's doing and everything. But it stifles our conversations so badly. So calls are, by necessity short. I'm trying to make it so I visit about once a month. That helps. Because if she's far enough away not to overhear, or out of the house, we can talk. It's just stressful.
Yeah, Lois Lane is up there.
Did we know that Google's homepage today is for Alan Turing's 100th birthday? I think we should know this.
Thanks, Cass. So far no homes have been burned so that's good
I've been playing with the Turing machine all day.
Stephanie, echoing the others, that's really effing scary, and please stay safe.
Thanks, guys. There are some amazing (but scary) photos at #waldocanyonfire.
Era: the good thing, I think, is that because we are such a big city and so close to the fire, there is some "Navy SEAL of fire response" crew on the ground and running the show now.
There's now a second fire burning. Rumors are its an arsonist setting the fires (there were two or three last week) which is really scary because it is so hot and dry.
