'Destiny'
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.
It means we're not going into the city, and we'll spend most of our energy managing our mother.
Boooo. When I went Christmas shopping with my mother last month, it was literally the first time in years we had spent time just the two of us, and it was SO GREAT. All of your family time shouldn't be hard.
Westwood hospital denied me IV meds, so I went to Santa Monica, where they gave me only one dose. My next day off is in February. I'm not entirely sure how that's supposed to work.
Unrelatedly, Jamaican...ingenuity? [link]
Oh dear, ita.
"Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall" -- he's so good with that kind of thing.
I missed the actual swearing-in, because I thought it was at noon, so I didn't turn the TV on until a little before.
"Barack H. Obama" sounds like 'Jesus H. Christ'-- it is making me laugh.
I feel like using "Barack H. Obama!" in place of "Jesus H. Christ!" now.
t edit Wow. BIG gay shoutout. Well done, Barack H. Obama!
Unrelatedly, Jamaican...ingenuity? [link]
How????
That was a damn good speech.
boo, missed speech, missed everything, stupid work.
It was! So glad I didn't miss the speech - because I totally missed the swearing in.
Okay, I disliked Kelly Clarkson's version "Country Tis of Thee" - what did you guys think?
Work is stupid.
I did notice Joe B. swearing in with his middle initial only, and it turns out his middle name is Robinette.
And also speaking of names, Bishop Gene Robinson was on Fresh Air recently, and it turns out his first name is Vicky. He wasn't expected to live, and his parents were expecting a girl, so they just changed the spelling of the name they were going to give her. And back home, I guess they still call him Vicky Gene.
It feels weirdly sappy, but I find this inaugural almost more significant than the last one. Yeah, first black elected president, hugely important. But anything can happen once. No, we RE-ELECTED a black as president. Granted, his competition was so terrifying that it was a fairly done deal, but my country re-elected a man that 10 years ago would have seemed ludicrous.
There was a TV movie several years ago called "The Man", about how the black Speaker of the House (I think), became President and all the drama around that. But it happened the direct, legitimate, no-doubt-about-it way. One advantage of getting older is seeing history deliver wonderful things.