/o\ You were the only one who knew about the elder gods? THE SACRILEGE!
It's been raining and drizzling all week. I'm in heaven. Also thinking that you'd be the floofiest of all floof bunnies if you set foot in the PNW. All the floof bunnies would worship you as their elder god. You could grow a tentacle off the worship.
i know! how could no one else have heard of elder gods? are they that obscure? am i the only one familiar with genre lit? well, besides the girl who wrote the story. hmph, writing group. hmph.
oh my god, i'd be the humidest bunny EVER. i'd shave my head to avoid the floof. a tentacle wouldn't be so terrible, tho.
In order, because there's (as usual) a lot here to poke at.
Good quote about boldness! I like that one, and somehow always forget it.
Can you please ask if you can send me the link/copy/whatever so I can read the Bart station story? That sounds wonderful.
YES! Go Justice Department! Thank you for doing your job.
The baby boxes. SO HAPPY making. I've a friend who's a doula for low-income families and clinics, and they've been assembling their own baby boxes, so I sent that along to them. :)
I do enjoy a good political boycott.
Wait, we have a Leica camera! Or my mom does, and I'm not sure where it came from. But knowing some of the family history, that explains a lot. Thanks.
Yup. Total mentalcest. Or at least that awkward and painful requited but unspoken thing. As much as I love writing that stuff, it hurts a lot.
the story's on yahoogroups, and i think you have to be a member of the group to see it. i can send it to you, but you must promise to tell. no. one.
the baby boxes are such a cool idea. and they brought infant mortality in finland waaaay down, so you have to think they'll do the same in canada.
the anti-trump we're-not-going-to-buy-your-stuff boycotts are the best, whether they're directed at trump or at people who support him. everyone's got a right to protest. :D
i know nothing about leica cameras - i don't even know if leica makes them any more - and as far as i know no one in my family has ever owned one (lots of canons and nikons, tho), so that whole story was totally new. pretty fantastic, tho, isn't it?
Yay for early voting! I went Monday, no line at all. But you're right; it's kind of anti-climactic. I have been so intently following politics for months (over a year?) that I don't know if I can take watching the results. If it goes well, I'd hate to miss it. I will not even speak of the other possibility.
Oh, I adored the NICU costumes! (Wee Cap!) Did you know that the only neonatal units with incubators available in the US between 1903 and 1939 were in sideshows in Coney Island and eventually some other amusement places, and world's fairs? A German immigrant, Dr. Martin Couney (originally Cohen) brought the idea to the US, but hospitals weren't interested, so he approached Coney Island. He estimated in the 40 years (the Coney Island ones closed in 43 after hospitals had gotten with the program) he saved over 6000 babies. Including his own child, whom he had with the nurse that he married. None of the babies' parents were charged a dime; it was all covered by 25 cent entry fees to see them.
i did not know that about incubators! charging people to see the babies is very mercenary and opportunistic, altho if it meant they could essentially get free care i bet the parents were totally cool with it. seems like a stroke of genius for dr couney to go to coney island when no hospitals wanted the incubators, tho.
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It's been raining and drizzling all week. I'm in heaven. Also thinking that you'd be the floofiest of all floof bunnies if you set foot in the PNW. All the floof bunnies would worship you as their elder god. You could grow a tentacle off the worship.
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oh my god, i'd be the humidest bunny EVER. i'd shave my head to avoid the floof. a tentacle wouldn't be so terrible, tho.
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Good quote about boldness! I like that one, and somehow always forget it.
Can you please ask if you can send me the link/copy/whatever so I can read the Bart station story? That sounds wonderful.
YES! Go Justice Department! Thank you for doing your job.
The baby boxes. SO HAPPY making. I've a friend who's a doula for low-income families and clinics, and they've been assembling their own baby boxes, so I sent that along to them. :)
I do enjoy a good political boycott.
Wait, we have a Leica camera! Or my mom does, and I'm not sure where it came from. But knowing some of the family history, that explains a lot. Thanks.
Yup. Total mentalcest. Or at least that awkward and painful requited but unspoken thing. As much as I love writing that stuff, it hurts a lot.
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the baby boxes are such a cool idea. and they brought infant mortality in finland waaaay down, so you have to think they'll do the same in canada.
the anti-trump we're-not-going-to-buy-your-stuff boycotts are the best, whether they're directed at trump or at people who support him. everyone's got a right to protest. :D
i know nothing about leica cameras - i don't even know if leica makes them any more - and as far as i know no one in my family has ever owned one (lots of canons and nikons, tho), so that whole story was totally new. pretty fantastic, tho, isn't it?
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Oh, I adored the NICU costumes! (Wee Cap!) Did you know that the only neonatal units with incubators available in the US between 1903 and 1939 were in sideshows in Coney Island and eventually some other amusement places, and world's fairs? A German immigrant, Dr. Martin Couney (originally Cohen) brought the idea to the US, but hospitals weren't interested, so he approached Coney Island. He estimated in the 40 years (the Coney Island ones closed in 43 after hospitals had gotten with the program) he saved over 6000 babies. Including his own child, whom he had with the nurse that he married. None of the babies' parents were charged a dime; it was all covered by 25 cent entry fees to see them.
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