Stunned, overjoyed, scared, thrilled, stunned we didn't lose....utterly worn out. XD
Now, to catch up on all the blogs!!
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I dressed up as a LOLcat (cat accessories, plus cardboard sign inscribed O HAI). Only one or two people at the incredibly busy bar my sister & her fiancée took me to guessed what I was, but several thought the cat outfit was cute. Sister was Hannibal Lector; future SIL was a Confederate officer. The winner of the women's costume contest was a pair of people dressed as Bristol and Sarah Palin. (Signs for "Palin for Abstinence".)
The rest of the household where I'm staying were also out for the night, but before I went out with sister I dropped by two different friends' houses. One had lots and lots of kids, but was giving out pencils instead of candy; the other had candy but only a few kids. I kept being surprised by how many kids were out on the streets with their parents, though. I think it was a good night for it--nippy, but not too freezing cold.
(Though the gentleman at the bar dressed in little more than green feathers might have begged to differ, at least if he didn't change before walking to his car!)
I'm torn between sheer disbelief and that weird, weird face McCain is making, and thinking "Man, Obama looks really, really good there."
Side benefit of an Obama presidency: *handsome* guy behind the podium at all the speeches for the next four years. (I swing between thinking he's very good looking and just thinking he looks better than both John McCain and George Bush. Either way, it's a win.)
I only know Scraps through MakingLight, but he's been one of the people whose name carries good vibes with it. May things continue to improve and shock the doctors in positive ways.
If anyone does set up a PayPal address to donate, please post it here! (Maybe to the main page?) I have a little bit of money this month to go to a good cause (I was earning money while visiting Nicole LeBoeuf-Little last week--wonderful time!) and would be very glad to send it to help out Scraps and Velma.
Prayers and hugs.
Like abi, I have a mostly functional family (most of my screwing up happened at the hands of my parents' chosen family), but also have a lot of friends whose families have been a Bad thing in their lives. To each of them: I salute you. You are more than a child from a neglectful or abusive family. You are someone I choose as part of my chosen family, because you are wonderful. Yes, you. I like you! There is a spark of sheer amazingness in you that I was drawn to when I met you, and treasure now--apart and aside from whatever scars you bear.
And, yes, I would like to go back in time and somehow stop them from hurting you. Goddammit.
To the members of my birth family who have had to pull away because the relationships weren't working: if I have been part of the problem, I hope that I find that out and change. And for the times when I have not realized how much you were hurting, because the family wasn't hurting me in the same ways: I am sorry.
To the people who've helped me see the cracks in my (mostly functional) family, and heal from them--thank you.
And abi--well, abi rocks. ;)
Woohoo! :D So happy for the newlyweds!
My closest link to George Takei is that he appeared on interstitial programming on the TV channel "The New VI" when I lived on Vancouver Island. Someone would be taped saying, "I'm So-and-So, out there on the New VI". Of course when he did his, he did the Vulcan salute. :-)
And it is pretty cool that the original Star Trek cast seem to have kept in touch. They all look so happy in the wedding photo!
It's always seemed to me that a healthcare system that ignores the sick and the old is--how shall I put this delicately--not doing its job. (Immoral, counterproductive, fucking batshit evil.) Is that not what healthcare is for? To care for the sick?
Luke 5:31: And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Holy frell. Please add my good wishes to the pile.
Happy birthday, Xopher! Happy birthday to my sister-in-law Lindsay, married to my most excellent younger brother for four and a half years now. Congratulations to Jeff & hubby! And congratulations to Rikibeth and her daughter--that sounds like a really cool solution.
Today I worked on some training for a job that, I hope, will help me pull myself a bit out of debt and a bit closer to my goal of moving cross-country next spring. Tomorrow (well, later today, the 12th), I will be done that part of the training; it's also payday. Hurrah!
Today I ate an incredibly yummy tomato-and-cucumber salad for supper, and had a McRib sandwich for the first time for lunch (yes, they really are as messy as the TV ads claim). I hung a pair of jeans on the clothesline (feeling virtuous!) and convinced the dryer to dry the smaller items. I talked to a pretty girl. I listened to my littlest brother show off his latest Fimo sculptures. I drove home from work with the windows rolled down, and drank green tea tea while reading blogs.
Thank you all for talking about these things: I have a little smile on my face now, and will sleep better tonight.
Jules #43: Like John M. Ford, Bruce Schneier was known to me for ages as a ML commentator before I learned anything about his field of expertise.
Fluffy dark-grey stormclouds overhead all day here on the eastern Tennessee/Virginia border, but only five minutes of quite light rain (not a drizzle, exactly, maybe a sprinkle? spray?) this afternoon about 2 pm while we were out canvassing for voters. (Woohoo, 22 new voter registrations. Most of whom are leaning Obamaward.) A week or ten days ago we had several days in a row of solid rain, prompting me to finally get new windshield wipers for safety reasons.
We just packed up the bus of New Orleans evacuees staying at the church across the road from ours the day before yesterday--I hope they get home all right, and don't get hit by Ike.
#188 Mary Dell: Jade-spoked eyes? Wouldn't that...hurt? The image coming to my mind is that of bicycle wheel spokes. Ouch.
Meanwhile I am trying to head off the urge to go root through the God-Awful Fanfiction Forums. Haven't been there in months; it may be time for another round.
#28 Fred: By that Bill O'Reilly? *shudder* (I did think it was a lesbian scene until the "his". Hmph, unisex names. :D)
Mary Aileen: the Crichton bear is fabulous. :D
Alas, I am on the other side of the country with no travel funds at the moment. I am glad a section of the fluorosphere will be able to gather in one physical spot, though. Woohoo!
Back to the fact that Time magazine is only just getting around to commenting on, er, comments--
It really weirds me out that I inhabit this parallel universe (the Internet, and the awareness of its traditions) that is so far away from the culture of folks who never go online. The bizarre thing is that in many other respects I share a culture with the folks who write Time. But there's this huge disconnect there, and it just...weirds me the heck out. Gah! How can they *not get it*? And yet it's not that they're necessarily stupid or uneducated or bad people--just living in a different century....
(Only just now realizing trolls exist? Really??)
The McCain astroturf page looks like something a newbie would have written in, oh, 1996....
And someone needs to take clips of McCain nodding sagely, film Teresa with her "explanations", cut the two together, and post it to YouTube. :D
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