Thank you so much! If you knew me in real life, you'd know that I am quiet till you get to know me, then I won't shut up. My husband, I'm afraid, has learned that the hard way. ;)
Man, what an election. I almost cried, too. I wasn't expecting to be so affected, but OMG, I feel like my whole family is being represented by the president now, rather than just the white, fundamentalist Christian family members who make dinner conversations awkward. And how cool is this--any kids born in this country today and after are never going to have lived in an America* where the only people who have ever been elected President are/were white men. *is weak in the knees now*
*Obviously I mean USA specifically, but "an America" sounds more poetic :P
I understand exactly what you mean. I expected to be affected--I know my overemotional self by now ;) --but it still gets me every time to see footage of the civil rights movement in the mid-20th century and think how far we've come and what that means to so many people. And, as you said, to think that young children will have an entirely different idea of reality and possibility than even you and I had growing up (because we're soooo old! ;)
Yes, I have to learn to be careful of that too. I do, after all, have flisters who are Canadian and South American ... so they're Americans too. "US citizens" just sounds so ... bleh when one is trying to be poetic! :^P
Mazel tov on your fourth! And I see that Bobby brought you flowers, which is the traditional gift, so that's all good. The modern gift is linen or silk, in case either of you need new SCA garb . . .
I screamed my voice hoarse when Obama won, along with an entire roomful of U of C students at the campus center election party. That was a glorious moment, especially when the friend I was with (normally an exceptionally verbal woman) was reduced to nothing more than "Holy Shit!" over and over and over again.
Thank you! Linen is always useful in the House of Felagund, though the fact that the lord and lady of the house are both in school and working means that it sits folded in the closet in the study. ;)
I did think of you while seeing the massive crowds gathered to celebrate Obama's victory in Chicago. I wondered if you'd gone down to the victory celebration.
Thank you! :) Having someone like Bobby is, indeed, a wonderful thing. And I am known to avow that "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," but it is his support of me--no matter how quirky my interests--that makes him different.
I did like Zack and Miri. I don't think it was as good as some of the other recent movies like it. (I'm thinking particularly of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which I loved.) But it was entertaining, funny, and had full-frontal female and male nudity, so it was "controversial" enough (in the American sense) that I want to throw my money behind it. ;) If you've seen and liked other movies of the Apatow school (though he had nothing to do with this one, so far as I know, it was certainly in his style and involved some from his familiar cast), then you'll probably like this one too.
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Man, what an election. I almost cried, too. I wasn't expecting to be so affected, but OMG, I feel like my whole family is being represented by the president now, rather than just the white, fundamentalist Christian family members who make dinner conversations awkward. And how cool is this--any kids born in this country today and after are never going to have lived in an America* where the only people who have ever been elected President are/were white men. *is weak in the knees now*
*Obviously I mean USA specifically, but "an America" sounds more poetic :P
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I understand exactly what you mean. I expected to be affected--I know my overemotional self by now ;) --but it still gets me every time to see footage of the civil rights movement in the mid-20th century and think how far we've come and what that means to so many people. And, as you said, to think that young children will have an entirely different idea of reality and possibility than even you and I had growing up (because we're soooo old! ;)
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I screamed my voice hoarse when Obama won, along with an entire roomful of U of C students at the campus center election party. That was a glorious moment, especially when the friend I was with (normally an exceptionally verbal woman) was reduced to nothing more than "Holy Shit!" over and over and over again.
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I did think of you while seeing the massive crowds gathered to celebrate Obama's victory in Chicago. I wondered if you'd gone down to the victory celebration.
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I did like Zack and Miri. I don't think it was as good as some of the other recent movies like it. (I'm thinking particularly of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which I loved.) But it was entertaining, funny, and had full-frontal female and male nudity, so it was "controversial" enough (in the American sense) that I want to throw my money behind it. ;) If you've seen and liked other movies of the Apatow school (though he had nothing to do with this one, so far as I know, it was certainly in his style and involved some from his familiar cast), then you'll probably like this one too.
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