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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Oct 21, 2011 11:03:31 GMT -5
to both of you. About alliteration: Appropriately applied alliteratives are awesome. *hides behind sofa* But bad bromides do not bear bothering. *joins Anne behind sofa**huggles Diane* I'm off on my errands, later, S'cubies.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 21, 2011 11:14:43 GMT -5
I don't suppose any of you helpful people might have a copy of the current Science from which you might be able to scan the article about the rexamination of data from the Manis Mastadon site and send it to me? Julia, because I'm really really interested in reading it instead of popular articles about it... I don't have the magazine. Maybe this article has more info on it: qmackie.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/manis-mastodon-a-13800-year-old-archaeological-site I hope the link works for you - copy and paste it into your browser. Dang. Illinois is at 10% unemployment. Officially, anyway. It's probably more like 18%. Why am I watching the evening news? Off to watch Big Bang and hit the hay. *hugs to all* I really want the original Science article (the new one, I mean, there was a Research Report back in about 1980 I think) with all the science-ee stuff. I was close, academically and socially, to the original diggers, and have done a certain amount of keeping up with the issues raised by the date for the site since. Julia, particularly coast-wise settlement of the New World and multi- migration settlement.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 21, 2011 11:16:32 GMT -5
You know, if a cold was going to show up and kick my ass, the least it could have done was wait two more days so I'd have had a legitimate reason to not attend this weekend's trustee events... There should be a constitutional amendment banning colds that start on Friday. Julia, also, rain during the daytime.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 21, 2011 11:24:16 GMT -5
Oh, hell: pouring rain, and I have to do everything by myself today, plus walk to the mailbox.
I hate walking to the mailbox.
Julia, not sure if the downhill, the walking on pavement, the eating for traffic to clear, or the walking uphil after all of the downhill, pavement, and waiting parts is worse.
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Post by Sara on Oct 21, 2011 11:34:02 GMT -5
You know, if a cold was going to show up and kick my ass, the least it could have done was wait two more days so I'd have had a legitimate reason to not attend this weekend's trustee events... There should be a constitutional amendment banning colds that start on Friday. Julia, also, rain during the daytime. The cold started Tuesday, really kicked into high gear Wednesday, kept me home yesterday. So if it had waited until Thursday, it'd be at its worst today and tomorrow and I could have blown off the trustee stuff guilt-free.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 21, 2011 12:14:02 GMT -5
There should be a constitutional amendment banning colds that start on Friday. Julia, also, rain during the daytime. The cold started Tuesday, really kicked into high gear Wednesday, kept me home yesterday. So if it had waited until Thursday, it'd be at its worst today and tomorrow and I could have blown off the trustee stuff guilt-free. Well, that's no help at all. I had a something yesterday- I suspect a problem with potassium levels (like not enough) plus a righteous case of total exhaustion; today I have an increase in my disinclination to be polite to stupid people, especially stupid people who think they're smarter than they are. In other words, I need to stay off Facebook, where the stupid people are ones I know in real life. Julia, I'm putting off looking at the weather maps, too, as I do not wish to go out and get soaked, and yet also do not want to delay going out at all waiting for the rain to stop.
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Oct 21, 2011 14:59:31 GMT -5
Ran errands (wild goose chase, the pharmacy had mailed Emily's prescription anyway), put away groceries, walked to market bank Starbucks, put away stuff, set up new phone and started it charging, assembled little Halloween shrine and cleaned up supplies, did four loads of laundry, ate lunch. Naptime.
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Oct 21, 2011 21:52:40 GMT -5
Well, we just pilled Patches. It took several tries, even with the pill popper, and we had to let her go for a few minutes before attempting the second half of the dose, but it's done and she only bit me a few times and didn't draw any blood . Tomorrow we'll do Shadow, and then repeat the whole mess in two to three weeks. There has got to be a better way, like, for example, liquid tapeworm medicine. Also Rachel Maddow was off this evening and her substitute is someone I rather don't care for, and there's no new Fringe this week, so I am seriously peeved with life.
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Post by Sara on Oct 21, 2011 22:40:02 GMT -5
One trustee event down, one to go...
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 22, 2011 1:29:16 GMT -5
One trustee event down, one to go... This sounds vaguely threatening. I managed to watch Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam 20 on American Masters tonight, which took some doing because Franklin hates them (although HOW I don't know, he's basically never listened to them until tonight?)but then he watched it all and all the local content after (about Sub Pop and KEXP). Me, I need to go to bed. Julia, and now they're interviewing someone from the Total Experience Gospel Choir, and now they're playing Nirvana and now they're showing the Northwest Ballet and Mark Morris andGinny's glass and Dale's glass and a bunch of other Art stuff...
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Post by SpringSummers on Oct 22, 2011 19:50:10 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the cold, Sara - I am also coming down with one. Sore throat and sniffle stage right now. Both the girls are sick as well. Well, Scubes - I think I will retiring at the end of the calendar year. It is kind of sad-making in some ways, but the crazy at work is unyielding, and the girls need more time and attention than I can give to them right now. Things are difficult for them with their case, and I think they will get worse before the get better. I recorded the SPN ep - hope to watch it tonight after the girls are in bed. Did anyone watch?
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Oct 22, 2011 19:51:49 GMT -5
Breakfast out, not many yard sales and those uninteresting, came home. Walked to Cost Plus with Elder Daughter, came home, pottered around the house. Went to used L-space bookstore in Yorba Linda with Husband and Elder Daughter, found four mysteries on my want list, came home. Vacuumed back half of house (much to the consternation of Patches), ate lunch, had a lie-down, dozed off. Got up some hours later, installed new phone. I'm going to wait a bit before I program the numbers into it, just in case it dies suddenly and has to be returned. Not a bad day, except for the nasty headache, but that's probably either the sudden change in the weather or a cold, as Elder Daughter and I are both feeling a bit sub-par. Tonight we pill Shadow. Wish me luck. ETA: Well, that was a resounding failure. It seems like wrapping her in a towel made her even more angry. Next time we'll try without the towel, but not until tomorrow, because she's gone under Kitty's bed.
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Post by Sue on Oct 22, 2011 21:28:14 GMT -5
Matt Rousch give cautious thumbs up to Once Upon a Time (he says to give it at least thu ep. 3:
Once is not enough. Sometimes a second look, or a second episode, is necessary to convince a skeptic that a show is worth taking a risk on. So it is with ABC's dazzling but dauntingly precious Once Upon a Time (Sunday, 8/7c), which back when I was considering it for Fall Preview left me wondering: "Is this ambitiously whimsical fantasia the next Pushing Daisies cult fave or the next Eastwick insta-flop? (Either way, it will likely be an uphill climb to happily ever after.) It would be easier to love if it weren't so convoluted and campy."
But then ABC made another episode (the third, airing Nov. 6) available for review, and I started to find myself enchanted and beguiled, ready to curl up with more chapters of this fractured fairy tale. First, though, you have to digest the premise, and the overstuffed and often overripe pilot is a lot to swallow. We begin in a lavishly rendered fairy-tale land where Snow White (Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming wrangle with an Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), who interrupts their wedding with the promise of a curse. Said curse arrives just as Snow manages to send her newborn daughter Emma through a magical portal into our world. Years pass, and the grown Emma (House's arch Jennifer Morrison), now a loner of a bounty hunter, is enlisted by a little boy to hasten to the isolated burg of Storybrooke, Maine, where time is frozen and all our favorite characters of legend live in ignorance of their fabled origins. The boy believes Emma can reverse the curse, but first she has to face the town mayor (Parrilla again), who's given to saying things like, "I will destroy you if it is the last thing I do." (Has she been watching Revenge? Do they even have TVs in Storybrooke?)
"Seriously?" Emma remarks with some frequency, which is understandable. I was initially underwhelmed by all the heavy-handed whimsy, but I began to take Once a bit more seriously upon sampling the upcoming third episode. It cleverly weaves Lost-like flashbacks — the show's creators are Lost vets, and it shows — taking us back to Snow's colorful past as a frisky bandit, played off against her modern-day search for the John Doe she doesn't know is her Prince Charming (and their meet-cute back in the enchanted woods truly is charming). There's gorgeous fun to be had here, and I'm cautiously optimistic that ABC's patience in delaying the premiere until a month into the season, coupled with heavy and smart promotion, will pay off, at least initially. It would be a shame for this book to be closed too soon.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 22, 2011 22:55:44 GMT -5
Busy day, not sufficient sleep last night, and I want to go to bed as early as possible.
And need to watch Fringe, except Franklin's crashed out and I would rather watch it ONCE.
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Post by luvmyfirefly on Oct 23, 2011 0:34:12 GMT -5
Hello, people I should be talking to way more often! I just wondered if any of you have stumbled across the British TV series MISFITS? I've been watching it on Hulu and it's great! One of the actors, Robert Sheehan, has energy and humor that I haven't seen since JM. His character can be such a jerkwad and yet you love him and he also manages simultaneously to be sexy and dorky. Sadly it seems he won't be in the 3rd season of the show. Excuse me if you guys already have a thread for this show. I did a search but nothing came up. www.hulu.com/misfits
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