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However, I've visited Boston twice, and will visit a third time, before seeing my parents again.

I think I should talk to my sister.

The ad read "Banana Guard Must Have - www.SafeBanana.com - Banana Guard will fit most bananas 9 Colours , Only £3.97 Buy one now."

Indeed, the Safe Banana website offers banana guards in such colors as Ravishing Red, Outrageous Orange, and Skyhigh Blue. Ooh, and Glow in the Dark. Doesn't everyone need a glow-in-the-dark er... banana guard??

But damned if I will. I have been sleeping like crazy, and doing all the uber-good things one should be doing to ward off colds. I don't have time for one, dammit. I have Stuff To Do this weekend, from fun stuff (wedding band looking) to not fun stuff (homework).

It is seldom that a patron can strike me speechless by their appearance - if you haven't guessed it by now, I am seldom speechless for any reason; and really, after this many years in both retail and librarianship, I sort of get the feeling that I have seen it all.

Until yesterday, when a gentleman came in wearing what was the worse wig I have ever seen in my life. It was dark brown, thick, and styled in what can only be called a Beatles shag cut. And quite clearly low quality, fake hair. Jaw-dropping, can't take eyes off it horrible.

I still can't get the image out of my mind - its seared there, really. Eye bleach required.

Our local outdoor place was having a tent sale, and we almost came home with a new tent, if only because it was actually a tent + screen house in one set up, and either room was big enough to comfortably set up shop for a week in AND spin poi. Unlit, of course. It was a bit..insane. And crazily cheap - cheaper then what we need to do now with our tent - with the sale.

But in the end, common sense (defined by such considerations as "would we have room for that in the car?" and "the poles on that are thinner then the poles we have now!" prevailed, and until they get in the tent we REALLY want, we will simply buy replacement poles for our Eureka Lodge and continue to use that. After all, the tent is fine, the poles are simply....a bit S shaped.

Does anyone on my friends list watch NCIS? If you do, can you tell me how on earth the team got back together?
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No one seems to care about the people who acted responsibly, and just bought a home, at a fixed rate, years before the peak of this nonsense, but now can't unload it. Even if I weren't getting divorced, the house is tying D. and I to a location more than an hour away from both our jobs - eating up our time and a huge chunk of money on commuting, because gasoline is also through the roof. So even taking the emotional stuff out of it, if we wanted to improve our situation and move closer to our work, we're totally screwed. What about people who get transferred, or have a kid, or have a spouse pass away, or need to move to take care of family members? We're all stuck, watching our houses become worth less and less when we followed all the "rules". We're not in foreclosure and are working our butts off to actually make our payments, so we're not news and nobody cares, but we're drowning just the same.

I'm not naive enough to say we shouldn't try to stabilize Wall Street, because they're the ones who insure everything else, and without credit everything goes kerplooey for real. And foreclosures hurt everyone. But goddamn I am wondering just how much I am going to have to go into DEBT to sell my house (which I have been paying on responsibly for six years) and that is just seriously fucked up.

Current Mood:

pissed off

• 21:46 is pissed she can't use her 6 year old contact lens prescription. I just need a pair for hallowweeeeeen. ::shakes fist at astigmatism::

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Current Mood:

geeky

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Also. You know how in books/movies - Vampires are all accomplished? Like they speak 9 million languages and can play ever instrument? I think even if I were a vampire, I'd still be totally lazy. I'd be like

"I can't believe I'm 600 years old and all i've done is drink blood and play Warcraft"

Also - why are they all totally loaded? I mean - just because you're old doesn't mean your wealthy. These vampires must have had to have spent a century or two working the 9-5 (or 5-1), and had a realllly good financial advisor.

ATTACKED BY BIRDS!

http://www.thegreenhead.com/2008/10/when-birds-attack-costume.php

Many meetings today. I didn't feel like I got a lot done though. The rest of the day was spent handing out orders, and writing up notes from said meetings. sigh.

But Ice-Cream was had, and it was good.

Then, after going to Disaster training for our student workers, went to Pub 500 for librarian beer cruise that I am on.

Got home rather early, but still need to make jello for pot luck tomorrow. Tried to buy vegan jello today...they didn't have it! They also don't have soy whipped topping either! How can I be sensitive to the vegetarians I work with and still satisfy my jello need if the Cubs in town doesn't sell what I need? sigh. Maybe next time, I will try Hy-Vee.

Or order online. If I lived in Minneapolis, they would have this.

So, must make jello. Goodnight!

Current Mood:

giddy

Rose from episode "Tooth and Claw"

just waiting on the wig to arrive! and need to figure out make-up - definitely wearing false eyelashes :)

Helen Mirren

IS

Prospero

IN

Julie Taymor's

THE TEMPEST

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ETA: also, WANT.

• 15:57 just walked into a music store and bought a cd for the first time in like...a decade. Adele '19'

"In 1974,
My father was in the war.
He opened the door,
And peed on the floor,
And that was the end of the war."

It was going around in '75-'76. I actually got it into my head that the Vietnam War ended in 1974 rather than 1975, because of this stupid rhyme.

I can't remember if people used it to jump rope or just said it.

Is this familiar to anyone? I wonder what other unique regional jump-rope rhymes and patty-cake rhymes are out there...

Current Mood:

curious