Ugh. I was in a shopping center today that I frequently visit to grab a bite to eat, because it's between the preschool and various of my doctor's offices. Including the physical therapist, so you can imagine how often I'm there these days ( Read more... )

Potluck Saturday night with the parents of Barak's classmates. I was chatting with the mother of the triplets (two of whom are in Barak's class) and we were discussing the stupid things people say ( Read more... )

While emptying Yael's backpack this afternoon, I found a book: Poems and Prayers for Young Children. O_o

Very very calmly, I asked Yael where the book came from. "It was Salma's birthday, so she gave these out." So, okay, at least her teacher hadn't given them out, which would have caused me to explode in white hot fury.

But seriously? Seriously? ( Read more... )

Had to drop Yael off at school this morning because we missed the bus. (Totally my fault, not hers.) Anyway, we drove toward the school and I found a perfect parking space a block away from the school, we walked the block, and I dropped her off at the front door pretty much exactly on time ( Read more... )

At the front of the gift shop at Six Flags yesterday, there were two very attractive Justice League shirts. I dragged Peter over to them while Avi was squishing pennies and said, "Okay, can you tell me what's wrong with these shirts? I can assure you that it's something that doesn't require any very specialized comics knowledge ( Read more... )

I was going to link you to an excellent takedown of determinism and sexual orientation, but the post is (understandably!) flocked, so instead you're stuck with me paraphrasing and agreeing with her significantly less coherently :D ( Read more... )

Um, has anybody noticed that Michele Bachmann is absolutely batshit crazy? No, wait, that's an insult to those among us who are merely batshit crazy. She's like a whole new level of crazy to sign this fakakta thingHonest to Darwin, I thought that McCain/Palin was the lowest our country could go. I really didn't think things could get any worse ( Read more... )

( Three letters of crankiness )

I really don't have the time to waste on this rant, but I need to get it out of my system ( Read more... )

I was going to do that "why I write fanfiction" meme but...let's just take it as read that many of those apply to me, okay? And for my addition I would go with
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