I haven't posted here in years but it's time to kill the account. I think. It's actually hard to pull the trigger. This place meant a lot to me once.

Yep, friends only, or anyway friends mostly. Leave a message here if you're knocking on my door.

ETA: I wrote this post years ago and dated it unimaginably far in the future which is now of course not that far in the future. LJ died and maybe came back a little. Hi.

And this week we're talking about Providence. Which is another slightly out of left field choice (as all things will be, since the three towns we feel strongly enough about to have discussed much seem to have features one or both of us can't get past) and not somewhere I've ever had strong feelings about. I don't know what its sense of place is, ( Read more... )

Despair.

I think there was a New Friends meme along the line of ask me three questions and I'll answer them. Don't feel like you need to, though. Just if you have any, I will most likely answer them!

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Just in case ( Read more... )

I guess Jewish Christmas has been a thing forever but now people call it Jewish Christmas, right? Like it's more solidly thingified. It used to just be you were bored and hungry and Jewish and nothing was open except Chinese restaurants and movie theaters ( Read more... )

Languages used to be the easiest thing in the world to me. In high school I would look at a list of Russian words for a vocabulary test, right before the test, and then know them for good. Maybe in retrospect I learned them a certain way, like I memorized them rather than learning to use them, and then that happened later. Definitely learning ( Read more... )

Ok, that settles it. I'm hateblogging Love, Actually upon the occasion of it being ten years since Hollywood shat it at us ( Read more... )