Sounds lovely, Connie. Starting over in a new place is stressful, but can be unburdening, too.

I wanted to share this with y'all, especially the teachers & librarians. A friend of mine is a professional archaeologist frequently annoyed at the quality of education her kids are getting in public schools, and since her daughter read the entire 8th-grade history textbook in the first week of school, she decided to, um, prepare some supplementary materials.

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Check it out!

That is awesome, Consuela. It's unfortunate that it's necessary, but awesome nonetheless.

Nom, dinner. Orzo, ground pork, peas, onions, corn, and feta.

That's very cool, Consuela.

Exciting, Connie!

(Where's Theodosia with something?)

Timelies all!

Just got back from daytripping Intervention, a local con. Alex Kingston(subbing for Arthur Darvill) and Rene Auberjonois were the two big guests.

Tomorrow we're hoping to get to the Renaissance Faire.

OK, so opposite of how I felt about the outfit I work for (after them raising the starting pay of people doing my job without raising mine), One of the other things they do is called Camp Noah, a portable day camp experience that goes around to places where natural disasters or other traumatic things happened, focusing on teaching resiliency skills to kids who have been through the wringer. I helped make tie blankets to give to kids the year they went to Sandy Hook. They sent Camp Noah to Ferguson last summer. I am so proud.

That's wonderful, WS.

WS, I wish you could be proud AND paid fairly. But that's still wonderful.

Sheryl, I saw Alex Kingston for the first time at DragonCon this year. (I think. Am I right, Dana?) How did you find her?

I'm somewhere over the Northwestern Territories. While Business Class is pretty great, I'm pining for my bed.

Yeah, I think it was the first time she'd been there.

I am awake and resentful, and hoping I'll be able to go back to sleep.