Xander ,'Empty Places'
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.
Yay! Welcome baby Rose! We've long awaited your arrival.
Happy birthday, Isaac!
Babies and birthdays!
But isn't there a lot of killing time at the beginning? For many people, at least?
Yup. Posting during labor doesn't surprise me much. Posting while pushing would be crazy cakes.
We've got a nice little Buffista cohort spanning from Average White Baby to Sammy to Rose through Daisy's baby.
Matilda's in a cohort with Olivia and Dillo, and I think Noah and Grace.
Vegans of Color also looked at the ethnic food thing: [link]
mental health day
well the tree service people do not do evenings or saturday appts. plus it is take your kid to work day (but not for mac - 5th graders have testing) and the offices are going to be in disarray all day. plus plus - all the people I directly support are out of the office and another co-worker is out with flu. as soon as tree guy gets here and is done with what he needs me for, I am going back to bed.
ION - the house across the street from me is FOR RENT. 4br 2 bath for $1200 plus ME as a neighbor, omg I want a friend as neighbor.
There's a bunch of stuff I should do today -- pay bills, clean the apartment, organize some genealogy stuff, send out a bunch of emails to my students, put the bike rack on my car, do laundry -- but I don't really feel like doing any of it.
If only you were in LA and not Texas, msbelle, I'd totally move to that house to be neighbors.
WELCOME to Rose Elizabeth! (great middle name!)
Argh. Gene Baur -- the founder of Farm Sanctuary, and an authors whose book I found really moving -- is going to be giving a talk at my local library. I would love to see him, and nobody really ever comes out to this library -- we're really in the middle of nowhere, and surrounded by farmland, and there really aren't enough animal activist people to support talks by someone like him too often. And since there would be pretty few people at the talk, I'd probably get a chance to actually talk to him if I wanted to. And the date he's going to be here is the same date that I have something else I'm doing in NYC. He's given talks in NYC dozens of times, but never when I've been able to go.
Congratulations Kate! Welcome to the world Rose Elizabeth!
Congratulations Kate! Welcome Rose--you made an awesome choice in parents!
Gene Baur was here a couple of weeks ago (also in the middle of nowhere surrounded by rural countryside)and gave some strong talks. His ideas have a much broader appeal than a strict Vegan or anti-meat approach. His admiring audiences include both young activists and elderly farmers who are aghast at the abuses of modern agribusiness.
Welcome to the world, Baby Rose!!