shrift lives slightly closer to the sun than I do.

Paris, ooh.

I have a trip planned this fall but I want something sooner. Just not sure how I'll fit it in my schedule.

I have my trip to Ireland planned. The airline just changed my itinerary so the 10 hour layover in St. John's is now only 2. Score! I won't have to go visit cousins I don't really know.

A friend is going to NYC in July and was enticing me to come along.

Megan and Elena are going to see NPH in Hedwig on Easter weekend and want me to come along.

Of course, I am still waiting to hear about the job in The Hague so all travel plans are on hold. (Apparently The Hague is a four hour train ride from Paris, though.)

I say with nothing but love...

all you traveling people are making me jealous jealous jealous and I may be thinking not the nicest thoughts.

I'm going to Tuscaloosa on Valentines Day.

Does anybody else watch The Fosters? They introduced a trans* character in last night's episode, and cast a trans* actor. I have very rarely seen shows do that. (And this show, so far, has done really well on a lot of gender and sexuality issues. There are lesbian parents, and a subplot that I thought was REALLY well done about a 12-year-old boy who sometimes likes to wear dresses and nail polish and stuff like that. Various adults and kids reacted to it in different ways, sometimes violently. The adult who was clearly supposed to be the voice of reason basically said, "OK, you like this stuff. That's cool -- different people like different stuff. You've already seen that sometimes, other people react badly to it. That's wrong, and they shouldn't do it, and we'll do everything we can to stop them. But we can't protect you all the time, so you do have to think about where you're going and who will see you if you dress like this, even though it's the other people who are in the wrong here. But don't let them stop you from being yourself, when it is safe, and we can all try to make the world a safer place while we're at it. And by the way, that nail polish looks awesome."

FROST BITE AND HYPOTHERMIA CAN OCCUR IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.

Man, a friend of mine (who is not a parent) posted on FB today "I bet all the parents whining about how their kids need to stay home because it's too cold will be whining about their kids going to school when it's humid in June."

My reaction was pretty much, "Do you know how quickly hypothermia and frostbite can happen when kids are outside waiting for the bus or walking to school at 7 am in this weather? No kid is going to get heatstroke at 7 am in June."

Several parents jumped in to agree with me. What the hell, man. You have a nice warm Subaru to drive to work. Shut your piehole.

Where are you again, shrift?

Apparently Chicago has been relocated to Jötunheim.

shrift lives slightly closer to the sun than I do.

Colder out in the burbs, eh?

"I bet all the parents whining about how their kids need to stay home because it's too cold will be whining about their kids going to school when it's humid in June."

I swear, the majority of the internet is for people to criticize other people while not knowing what they're talking about.

Colder out in the burbs, eh?

Maybe. Unless the wind is from the lake.