Roofers are here. Thumping & banging has commenced. I hate watching people on ladders.

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Yesterday was high 70's. This morning is gorgeous, but we are expecting snow this afternoon. I'll be shocked if anything sticks. But this means I'm expecting an air pressure change headache...wish there was a good way to proactively stop it from happening.

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Guess I'm angling for some earworms because my brain did this:

For the first year in forever

There'll be music, there'll be light...

some brands of vitamins supposed to be better than others

Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers...

dig herself out

Dig me out, dig me in, out of this mess, baby out of my head

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Former President George H.W. Bush has acknowledged touching multiple women inappropriately in what his spokesman called "patt[ing] women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner."

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEN?

(Yes, gross generalization, etc., etc.)

Don't fucking touch people! Jesus fucking Christ!

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You are a delicate tropical flower, Laura. No shame in that.

I did have to go outside to give a judgement call for construction dudes and they mocked my mixed tropical and northern layers with good humor.

"patt[ing] women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner."

I promise to ask permission before I pat your rear. Because really even someone as huggy as me knows that ain't right.

Sad about Mark Halperin too, but hopeful that the more this is discussed openly that more men will get a clue.

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I do feel a little weird about the "patting on the rear" thing. Not that George Bush should be doing it to anyone other than possibly Barbara!! But there are times and places where that sort of thing is culturally accepted without asking for and receiving consent (...granted, I'm mostly thinking of sports dudes patting each others' asses, and of gay men and I smacking each others' asses, and pretty much never "dude patting woman's rear who he doesn't know or has any power over"?)

It's entirely possible that I have smacked someone's ass who didn't want me to? But I have both smacked and been smacked as a greeting/gotcha/whatever this past weekend at my dance convention, and I can't think of any that bothered me on the receiving end. But again....gay men. Friends. Social activity that also involves a lot of touching. Clearly not the same as President Bush.

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It really is one of those things that is hard to clearly define, except that you really should know when it is okay and when it is not! Just like sometimes a "Hey, baby" generates a smile and sometimes it makes your skin crawl.

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But there are times and places where that sort of thing is culturally accepted without asking for and receiving consent

I know, I know. I'm just so tired of seeing yet another story. It depresses the fuck out of me how much women have to put up with on a daily basis.

Also, I'm insulted by his stupid joke.

"We all circled around him and Barbara for a photo, and I was right next to him," Grolnick told the website. "He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, 'Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?' As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, 'David Cop-a-Feel!' "

That joke personally offends the concept of humor.

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Gross! Old perv.

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Guys--I did not figure out until JUST NOW that the conservative speechwriter Mark Halperin is not the same as the novelist (and author of one of my favorite books) Mark Helprin, who is also a conservative. I fail at politics.

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