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Post by Lola m on Nov 4, 2010 20:15:56 GMT -5
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Post by Karen on Nov 4, 2010 20:44:43 GMT -5
"How about that Gorn sitting on the couch?" I know! Right?  'Tara's' on Grey's Anatomy and she said 'snarky'.  Amber Benson and Eliza Dushku! Good tv night. |
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Nov 4, 2010 20:56:10 GMT -5
More papers have been signed, and this time notarized.  , if all goes well and the city agency doesn't block us from getting the first mortgage refied because they hold our second, we're almost done. Also I finished my last bookbinding kit. Thanks. I just found out this evening that tomorrow I have to drive to city hall and get more paperwork signed by somebody at redevelopment (and it has to be notarized too) and then probably drive the packet out to Yorba Linda. whimper. my tummy hurts. |
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Post by Lola m on Nov 4, 2010 20:56:21 GMT -5
"How about that Gorn sitting on the couch?" I know! Right? 'Tara's' on Grey's Anatomy and she said 'snarky'. Amber Benson and Eliza Dushku! Good tv night. Heeee! And indeed.  Now I'm watching Community. Magical trampoline! |
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Post by SpringSummers on Nov 4, 2010 21:26:48 GMT -5
Thanks. I just found out this evening that tomorrow I have to drive to city hall and get more paperwork signed by somebody at redevelopment (and it has to be notarized too) and then probably drive the packet out to Yorba Linda. whimper. my tummy hurts.Yorba Linda? Isn't that where the Nixon Museum is? Can you get me a souvenier like . . . I don't know. What do they have there? Tapes with 18 minute gaps? Reproductions of kitchen with Kruschev? Moon rocks? |
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Nov 4, 2010 21:59:31 GMT -5
Thanks. I just found out this evening that tomorrow I have to drive to city hall and get more paperwork signed by somebody at redevelopment (and it has to be notarized too) and then probably drive the packet out to Yorba Linda. whimper. my tummy hurts.Yorba Linda? Isn't that where the Nixon Museum is? Can you get me a souvenier like . . . I don't know. What do they have there? Tapes with 18 minute gaps? Reproductions of kitchen with Kruschev? Moon rocks? Yes, that's where the Nixon Museum is; sometimes I drive right past it, although I won't be tomorrow. I believe they have Nixon's boyhood home on the premises someplace. I don't think they like to talk about the 18-minute gap, though. |
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Post by SpringSummers on Nov 4, 2010 22:14:52 GMT -5
Yorba Linda? Isn't that where the Nixon Museum is? Can you get me a souvenier like . . . I don't know. What do they have there? Tapes with 18 minute gaps? Reproductions of kitchen with Kruschev? Moon rocks? Yes, that's where the Nixon Museum is; sometimes I drive right past it, although I won't be tomorrow. I believe they have Nixon's boyhood home on the premises someplace. I don't think they like to talk about the 18-minute gap, though.Probably not.  Have you ever been in the museum? I think it would be an interesting place to visit. The man had quite an amazing career. I read Nixon's two volume memoir years ago - it was really interesting in a "historical perspective" kind of way. Pretty dry, though, with all human drama left out. He didn't exactly give you a lot on the personal front. He definitely seemed very private about his personal life, but more than that . . . he seemed like he would be completely out of his element trying to explain events in "human behavior and reaction" terms. He didn't understand himself or the people around him that way; he couldn't write about the human, personal element because, it seemed to me, he didn't understand it or look for it, or see it. You had to get a sense of him, as a person, more through what he didn't say, and when and how he talked around things. Warm and fuzzy and personal was definitely not his style. Anyhow, for some reason, I have always found Nixon fascinating. I read his memoirs . . . and every Watergate book all the players published, from Judge Sirica to Gordon Liddy (Whoa-ho! Wild and crazy and sometimes sick, but never boring) to John Dean to Charles Colson - Humpty Dumpty's whole gang. I once wrote a short story and based my main character on my sense of Nixon - who he was and how he would have conducted himself in the circumstances. |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Nov 5, 2010 6:19:52 GMT -5
 did the exam now I just have to avoid thinking about it until I get the results back Throw some Buffy DVDs on. That ought to work. Or possibly write us some of your interesting takes on Dr Who (which I always look forward to reading). |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Nov 5, 2010 6:22:48 GMT -5
Overheard during my officemate's office hours: "So, what are 'endospores'?" "What do you think they are?" "Um...some sort of prokaryote...or eukaryote...or bacteria....?" Yeah, that pretty much covers it.  Well, at least the concept that it involves microscopic life forms has been absorbed. Diane *dubiously* |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Nov 5, 2010 6:24:57 GMT -5
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Nov 5, 2010 6:31:31 GMT -5
Yes, that's where the Nixon Museum is; sometimes I drive right past it, although I won't be tomorrow. I believe they have Nixon's boyhood home on the premises someplace. I don't think they like to talk about the 18-minute gap, though.Probably not. Have you ever been in the museum? I think it would be an interesting place to visit. The man had quite an amazing career. I read Nixon's two volume memoir years ago - it was really interesting in a "historical perspective" kind of way. Pretty dry, though, with all human drama left out. He didn't exactly give you a lot on the personal front. He definitely seemed very private about his personal life, but more than that . . . he seemed like he would be completely out of his element trying to explain events in "human behavior and reaction" terms. He didn't understand himself or the people around him that way; he couldn't write about the human, personal element because, it seemed to me, he didn't understand it or look for it, or see it. You had to get a sense of him, as a person, more through what he didn't say, and when and how he talked around things. Warm and fuzzy and personal was definitely not his style. Anyhow, for some reason, I have always found Nixon fascinating. I read his memoirs . . . and every Watergate book all the players published, from Judge Sirica to Gordon Liddy (Whoa-ho! Wild and crazy and sometimes sick, but never boring) to John Dean to Charles Colson - Humpty Dumpty's whole gang. I once wrote a short story and based my main character on my sense of Nixon - who he was and how he would have conducted himself in the circumstances. Have you seen "Frost/Nixon"? I highly recommend it. Frank Langella is spot-on as the man and gives an amazing performance. |
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Post by Sara on Nov 5, 2010 9:10:31 GMT -5
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Nov 5, 2010 10:29:09 GMT -5
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Post by Karen on Nov 5, 2010 11:28:41 GMT -5
Awesome mom! As an aunt of a beautiful gay boy of 16, I know from whence this mom is talking. My nephew Mark has gone thru a lot of this very kind of bullying since he was 3. Some of it from his father, who has since come around. And even if this little boy (of 5!) is not gay, his choice of frickin Halloween costume should not be subject to judgment by some small minded, self-puffing idiots.....it's no wonder kids bully. |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Nov 5, 2010 11:46:11 GMT -5
Morning, or whatever. Still have not succeeded in taking an actual day off; the day I was too sick to write I did four loads of laundry, cooked dinner, and did the dishes, which is NOT MY JOB. Can we have a show of hands on the subject of Franklin's home care physical therapist who was droning on (you know that tone of voice where you can tell someone is not listening to the words coming out of their mouth? That kind of droning on) about politics yesterday when I came in from hanging out the sheets and my load of underwear. Was that: - A. Really rude and unprofessional; she was in a stranger's house on a job, not at a cocktail party with friends.
B. Par for the course: nobody's mama teaches them any nice manners these days.
C. So bad that if I make a complaint about it I might be putting her job in jeopardy.
D. All of the above.
I went out and took a couple of dozen photos while she was here, which was really stupid because, as noted, I'd stripped the bed, put sheets on the line, and still had to go up to Yelm and buy livestock panels, to Home Depot to get compo shingles to skid proof the steps, and to the grocery store. In the pickup. Which means getting in and out of the vehicle should go down as a whole other piece of heavy labor, and I woke up at seven or so with my bad knee trying to tie itself in a bow knot. Julia, I at least must get the back steps shingled today, because it's going to start raining this afternoon and even the dogs are slipping on them. |
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