We bought a hanukkiyah at Hallmark. I know it's the second day, but the problem yesterday was that we didn't have one. So. Now we do. Even if it comes from Hallmark. (Why didn't I get one in Israel, exactly?) I guess we will have to take it traveling tomorrow. I don't think my mom has one ( Read more... )

FYI, Dreamwidth has open account creation from now until the end of the year, i.e., you can make a free account without an invite code through December 31. So if you wanted one but didn't want to ask, now is a good time. Also, I heard a rumor that igrick is planning on fixing bugs in LJ comment subject lines by eliminating comment subject lines ( Read more... )

When my mom was a little girl, her step-mom made her wear skirts and knee-socks to school, even though it was the sixties and the other girls were starting to wear trousers. Her guidance counselor dissuaded her from taking any math past algebra, because while she was a bright girl, she was in fact a girl, and we all knew she was just going to get ( Read more... )

My sisters are currently sitting on the couch and arguing fixed vs. movable "do".

η: No! In my non-music-major ignorance, I misspoke! They are both trashing fixed "do", but they have each learned a different movable "do" system.

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I am trying to figure out if we count as "near poor"
Friends Central is apparently awesome at sex ed
So is the Netherlands
The enemy does seem to at least feel threatened by Occupy

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When I was a senior in college, our somewhat useless Career Services office had us sign up for Experience.com, which is some kind of job/internship search website. Apparently I'm still on their mailing list, and apparently my spam filters don't always work. So they just sent me the following email:Are you dating your boss? No, not actually dating ( Read more... )

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Catching the first inbound SEPTA train from Wilmington. Our Amtrak Regional passed the first outbound train to Philadelphia an hour and a half ago. Presumably that was this same train. Ironically, I'd have a lot more trouble getting to work on time if I were commuting in the peak direction ( Read more... )

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Can't sleep, squalor will eat me. Augh. Augh. Augh. All twitchy and afraid now. No time to fix the squalor. And the Things that might crawl out of it. Augh.

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