So it's interesting to me that although we mostly don't have grammatical gender in English, we do have some words with inherent gender but no neutral alternative (which other gendered words do have). Viz ( Read more... )

That's how long it lasted in the new place before I had to put the bed back up on the lifts. I've got plenty of square feet in here, but not much storage space, so I've got to make some more of it where I can.

I have this feeling of dread, like I'm forgetting something. Do I have the faintest idea what it could be? Of course not.

Hope it isn't something important ...

( the world )

( My parents will ask, so I should keep a sort of shopping list. )

That photo meme:Take a picture of yourself, right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair, just take a picture.
Post that picture with no editing and post these instructions with it.
Well, I do as I'm told:

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Things that are good:  just as you are thinking "Hmm, you know, it's a little warm in here, maybe I'd better go nudge the AC" -- the AC kicks on.

So here's the episode of SVU that begins with BD Wong translating for a Chinese preschooler who said her mother locked the door and said to give the baby a bottle "when the hand was on the red" (i.e. every three hours, right), and used up all the milk and the baby was crying, which had been going on for a couple of days which is why the police were ( Read more... )

Man, I really want some cookie dough.

I can now report that skip=999 is as far back as you can go. So I've missed a few days before and after the 25th, but I skipped back to some time on the 27th and have been reading skimming the backlog; most of it is yuletide recs and general good wishes (with extra helpings of GOP-candidates-as-Buffy-villains and that-privilege-meme), so you'll forgive me ( Read more... )