Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.

Giles ,'Get It Done'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Consuela - Dec 07, 2014 12:56:17 pm PST #12052 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I went for a run this morning, which felt good (although my pace was still very slow), ate up the last of the kale in an omeletty-type thing, then cleaned the house a bit, did some laundry, then spent an hour or so planting bulbs along the fenceline and pulling weeds.

Oh my aching back.

Oh, and I finished the book for book club (which is tomorrow).

Now I should probably go make pie crusts. I have a thing at work on Wednesday and I won't have time to make anything tomorrow night or Tuesday night. So I figured I can make pie crusts today and freeze them, and then Tuesday night I can fill one (or both) and bake them, which shouldn't be too hard.


Jesse - Dec 07, 2014 1:05:43 pm PST #12053 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What I should be doing now is going over the music for choir tomorrow, but meh.


shrift - Dec 07, 2014 1:25:58 pm PST #12054 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I meant to do a lot of things this morning, but none of those things happened. I did manage to donate two bags of clothes and some shoes this afternoon, so at least I got something out of the house.

I've checked in for my flight tomorrow. I need to pay some bills and do laundry and pack.


Theodosia - Dec 07, 2014 1:33:05 pm PST #12055 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I slipped into a nearly-3 hour nap, woke convinced it was the next day. Good thing, too, because I have to go over the Hour of Code tutorials I'll be doing with the grammar school kiddos tomorrow morning. Mind you, it's stuff like "make the robot turn right when it hits a wall" level of coding, but it's nice to be prepared because I'll possibly be the only one there who has ever written a program at all, so.


-t - Dec 07, 2014 1:50:39 pm PST #12056 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, I took out the garbage and recycling and have laundry going, so my productivity is slightly higher than it might have been. Maybe I'll make some soup, that doesn't take much effort.


Kate P. - Dec 07, 2014 2:10:26 pm PST #12057 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

OK, what should I get my mother for Christmas? I am feeling uninspired, at least until I remembered that she's become a total Benedict Cumberbatch fangirl. Surely there must be some silly Cumberbatchy things for sale somewhere, right?


Hil R. - Dec 07, 2014 2:14:24 pm PST #12058 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Surely there must be some silly Cumberbatchy things for sale somewhere, right?

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Jesse - Dec 07, 2014 2:16:53 pm PST #12059 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Maybe not this though: [link] Or maybe! I don't know your mother.


sarameg - Dec 07, 2014 2:17:40 pm PST #12060 of 30000

I had a terrible slow start to the day thanks to staying up way too late upgrading my os (and the sad part is, I'm only halfway done.) But I got moving and made it to lisah's parade party and saw the whole parade! Honestly, I think the drum lines and dancer teams are my fav. One, incredible display of talent and athleticism;two, they're homegrown Baltimore; three, clearly a multigenerational family thing. Older parents acting as marshals and gear-carriers, the teens and early 20 something dancer gals and guys, the drummers ranging in ages, followed by Tweens down to teeny little 3-4 year olds rocking out. And there's the complicated bit about how they're a black Baltimore institution marching through what was historically a white Baltimore hood, and it's awesome that they were most likely to get the crowd cheering along (not counting the floats that gave candy and made the kids scream) and how you could write a book about all of this.


Dana - Dec 07, 2014 2:28:07 pm PST #12061 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

What about some Cumberbatchy DVDs?