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i feel like there's something i should be doing but i don't know what it is. >.< this seems to happen a lot. i need my boss to get back from his appointment because i think the thing i should be doing involves typing a letter that i don't have. joy
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Mm, yeah. My parents are retired (well, my mom's retired and my dad's kinda-retired), so they're free to travel whenever they want. It's a freedom I hope to have when I'm their age.
what kosher food story? the vatican was actually really cool, even tho it was WAY TOO FULL OF OTHER TOURISTS. we went the weekend of mother theresa's beatification, so there were all these tour groups of people wearing mother theresa baseball hats. o.O
The kosher food story is as follows: When we were at Worldcon, we saw our friend Brother Guy Consolmagno, who is the curator of meteorites for the Vatican. He lives and works at the Vatican, and we were talking to him about the fact that the Vatican is technically a separate country from Italy, and I was therefore wondering if there was some sort of passport procedure at the entry to the Vatican or what. Brother Guy replied that there's a card that people who work at the Vatican show to the guards, but for the most part, the guards know you if you work there. And if you're visiting someone who lives there, you can give your name to the guards, and the guards will have a list and will let you in.
So mabfan says, "So if we wanted to visit you, we can just go up to the gates of the Vatican and they'll let us in?"
"Yes," Brother Guy replied.
"Cool!" said mabfan. "Do you have any good kosher restaurants in your country?"
A good laugh was had by all.
...why are you going to la in AUGUST? is there a con?
Worldcon is in LA this year. If mabfan is nominated for a Hugo again this year, we may go out for the con. We did this back in 1996, when Worldcon was last in LA. And it was wicked hot, but we spent most of the time in the air conditioned hotel and conference center.
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