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amazement
I can't get over the fact that I just saw a photo of a black man sitting at the desk in the Oval Office, and it's not a movie. -
sigh
What must it be like to be a Harvard-educated attorney and then suddenly (more or less) have people saying things about you like "And, in her first official act as First Lady, Michelle Obama chose a lemongrass-colored suit for the Inauguration ( Read more... ) -
historical
I'm almost sure that this building is what used to stand on the site of my apartment:
Washington School
The cross streets are right. After my initial "hey, that's where I live!" response, I remembered that an intersection actually has four corners. But I live in a building that's perhaps 1960s-era, while across the street is a beautiful 1910s house ( Read more... ) -
A Frivolous Poll
The ALA awards will be announced a week from Monday (that's the Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, Coretta Scott King, etc).
Poll Hmm...Am amused to realize that ALA awards are my fandom.
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mystery
Have somehow lost my bike helmet somewhere between locking the bike on the parking strip outside my apartment and... coming in the door, or something. My apartment is tiny. Well, I guess there are plenty of places for a helmet to hide around here, but there was only about an hour between when I came in and when I looked for it again ( Read more... ) -
How can you read a book without any pictures?
Since I'm busily trying to read all the books I can that might win the Newbery, and some that might win the Printz (the relatively new young adult category), although a lot of those sound like books I don't really want to read unless someone tells me they're awesome by giving them awards, I thought I might expand into the Caldecott-eligible books ( Read more... ) -
GRRRl Scouts
Other Girl Scout leaders annoy me a lot, often, in so many ways, but I don't know if I've ever been so irritated as I am by Girl Scout leaders who think they have every (theoretical, thank god) right to say they won't accept a girl with HIV into their troops, because they "don't feel qualified" since they don't have "medical training" like I do. ( Read more... ) -
a Newbery discussion...
(This is the continuation of a discussion from the Heavy Medal blog about the Newbery winner/honors from 1953. The site wouldn't accept my whole comment for some reason, but I thought some of the readers might still want to read this response. Apologies to those who are coming in the middle of the conversation and/or are not at all interested.)
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some pig
AAAAAH!
I am trying to reread Charlotte's Web, which I haven't read in many years because I pretty much have it memorized: I was in the play in high school, and the play is an almost word-for-word adaptation of the text. (Because I know you will ask: being a person of rather limited acting ability, I was one of three cast in a sort of narrator/ ( Read more... ) -
chill
Cold! Cold! Cold! This is the first day it's been cold enough that it actually feels like something of a challenge, not turning the heater on until December. We've had an unseasonably warm November (we actually got STRAWBERRIES in the CSA box this week, which was a surprise to everyone, including the farmer); last year, one of the reasons we ( Read more... )