oh and also it snowed last night

[tsuki_no_bara]

yesterday i had a dentist appointment at 8:30 because i wasn't thinking, and when i got home i didn't know what to do with myself. >.< i was awake and dressed and had even left the house before i normally get out of bed! so i had a bagel. eventually i shifted my ass and went to the library to try and do some research for my bigbang, and they

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[murielle]

No Elementary! That explains a lot. Thanks for sharing. I would have been thinking I forgot to record it.

Your dad sounds infinitely cool. :-)

What was your hs trip to Israel like? (I dream of going there, maybe someday. So this is my not so subtle way of screaming, tell me all about it!)

Your grandmother's showers sound fascinating. So do the invite cards. Were they home/hand made? So many things were back then. People were so clever with the things they made and the things they used to make them. Sounds like a busy and interesting weekend. Well except for the dentist appointment. Although I go, and I really like my dentist, I doubt I will never like going. What you did after sounds interesting. What is Bing?

[bleodswean]

Great post and all this from a trip down into the basement! I would love to hear about your Israel pilgrimage. Story about your father is fantastic! My dad has some great 'Nam stories, too....but the backlash to that war really has never encouraged that sort of story telling, which feels so unfair to its vets.

[tsuki_no_bara]

for the longest time my dad had exactly three vietnam stories: the one about the dog ("injuries to chest, back, and tail"), the one where one of his fellow docs got bit on the thumb by i think a viet cong soldier he was treating, resulting in mrs doc back home being told he'd been awarded a purple heart which made her think he was at best seriously injured and at worst dead, and the one about the only guy smiling in a group picture (he later killed himself). and now the driver's license story makes four.

i went to israel for six weeks with like fifty fellow teenagers and we went lots of places and saw lots of things and hiked up masada at literally the butt-crack of dawn (so we could see the sun rise from the top) and i took a shit-ton of pictures and communed with my religion and had a really good time. it was a great summer and i would highly recommend it to any jewish american teenagers. altho i think everyone should go to israel, i mean you don't have to be jewish to appreciate it.

[dear_tiger]

Dude! You went to a library?? What's Google for? What were you even looking for?

Your parents' basement is the best. I'm loving those Vietnam stories and your dad's illegal driver's license. But come on, gotta drive those nurses. And they totally had plague there. One of my island professors was an infectious disease doc who was also in Vietnam (would be funny if he knew your dad), and he mentioned seeing cases of plague there. (He was maybe in his 80s? I often saw him on the beach when I went running - he'd be doing push ups or crunches. He ran, too.)

How did you like Call the Midwife? I really wanted to love that show, and it had its great moments, but in the end was too slow.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i was looking for books! what else do you do in a library? :p google can only take me so far.

and he had a bunch of immunizations for the plague, too! not just the one jab. and he was only there a year. the plague is such a medieval european disease, it's just weird to see it in a modern vaccine book.

i've only seen maybe three or four episodes, but i like it. i like all the nurses and the nuns.

[no_detective]

Haaaa, what a great anecdote! Thank you for sharing.

[tsuki_no_bara]

every so often my dad has a genuinely entertaining vietnam story. you wouldn't think there would be such a thing, but surprise!

[goldenusagi]

I'm just old enough to remember actual card catalogs, but not old enough to remember how to actually use them.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i remember them being kind of a pain, actually. but it's been so long since i was confronted with one i might be remembering wrong.