Copper

I see white and gold during the day and light blue and gold during the night. my night vision ftw!

You guys. for, like, 5 months now I've been consistently keeping my house neat, clean and increasingly organized. I don't even know who I am any more.

My snarky boss has made comments about myself and another co-worker (who is male) because we work together most days. There is only one other person on our side of the work schedule and he has the worst time management skills (coupled with a messiah complex) so neither of us has the patience to wait around for him to be ready to get some work done. Boss lady has straight up said to someone on the crew that she thinks we are having a fling because we always work together. Nevermind the fact that we've known each other since we went to high school and were friends even before we started working for the same park district. I also *surprise* hang out with his wife when I'm not working!

Some people just can't handle men and women being friends- they HAVE to see something sexual, which is more of a commentary on them than it is on the people they are gossiping about.

Obama is ALSO Hitler

I've literally seen a woman handing out fliers outside of the post office with a big ol' poster of Obama con Hitlerstache on her booth.

I have a friend who has an interesting approach to speaking about sexuality with her kids. Whenever they would ask questions about relationships or w/e she would say things like, "well someday when you like a boy or a girl..." (she has both boys and girls and would say this to both genders) in a very casual way that I found refreshing. I like that she doesn't even imply an expectation of gay or straight sexual behavior from her kids. I don't know if I would use her approach if I have kids, but I think it's better either extreme of GOD I HOPE THEY'RE STRAIGHT or SCREW BEING STRAIGHT, BE GAY!

AHAHAHAHA

(doesn't help but we're all doing it!)

seriously you guys stop talking about math it's creeping me out

HEEEEY YOU GUYSSSS!

I read Ready Player One last year and it was fantastic! It made me wish I was more of a video game geek back in the day!

That gif. Is it the lens or perspective, or is his head actually that disproportional to his body?

I'm pretty sure he has no neck.

Also, more to the point, this is super exciting etc etc

Nicole- I'm sorry Ethan keeps having these health issues. I can't imagine how scary that must be for you. At least the stuff with his eyes isn't life threatening, like what you had to deal with at the beginning of his life! Does he have to have the cataracts surgery to remove the cataract? Or is his not bad? You holding up okay?

First day back at work! Weeee/ kill me now!

Funny, because all the kids that have been flowing in from South/Middle America weren't given a choice to be vaccinated. They just were.

Some of the anti-vaxx movement is also just pure idiocy. I was working with a temporary employee last year whose wife had just had a baby and he said they weren't going to vaccinate because, and I'm quoting, "I only ever felt bad after I got them, and no one gets those bad diseases anymore. Better for my kid to be pure".

Hearing that word "pure" thrown around a lot by the people who are still scrambling to hold onto their belief that letting their kids be walking germ mobiles is okay.

I'm thinking about grabbing a Saturday pass and coming down for the weekend.

That is really kind of sad. Stop making me sad!

Brando.

You need more pleasures.

Do not do that Tami.

I didn't go to my 10 year because I think I'm the only person that graduated from my school who didn't get a college degree, and for whatever reason, that makes me feel incredibly insecure.

Oh man Embassytown is on my list. I love China Mieville.

READ IT!!!

and me too.

4. Embassytown by China Mieville (1/20)

This was a hard book to read. Not in the sense that it wasn't good, but more in the sense that the author was working with some Really Big Ideas and it took a lot of concentration to wrap my head around said ideas. The basic idea is humans spread across the galaxy and settled in quite harmoniously with various different alien races. On one planet, waay out at the very edge of mapped space there's a planet where the alien race (colloquially called Hosts) use two mouths to speak. One mouth is the cut, one is the turn. But that's only part of the twist. They don't understand anyone who tries to speak with them (even when speaking simultaneously, one person cut, the other turn) because these Hosts aren't exactly communicating via sound- instead, they express true meaning when they speak. Because of this, they cannot lie. Eventually humans figure out how to speak with them by raising clones who are psychically linked, only then when the "ambassadors" are of essentially one mind can the Hosts understand humans. Anyways. The main character is a part of language, the Hosts speak her all the time and are quite fond of the simile she represents. And then the **** hits the fan. Totally bizarre, original and fascinating story. Much like his other book I loved, The City and the City. (and I'm really not doing justice to the nuances of Language- read it for the more immersive experience)

5. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (1/27)

An equally fascinating, though utterly different, story. Chabon manages to write comparisons, similies and metaphors in perhaps the most beautiful fashion I ever have read. I wanted to keep reading it just so I could hear him describe the way milk mixes into his tea (like a ribbon trapped in a marble) or an old yid's skin (slightly green, like the white of a dollar bill) unto eternity.

how the hell is it noon already?!

I think I'm getting way too good at first aid because of my insane accident prone dog.

I like Disney. The last time I went was when my nieces were tiny little things and they loved it. I like going to get the gumbo and eating in that one restaurant that's inside The Pirates of The Caribbean. It's silly and fun. I also am very fond of the Haunted Mansion.

Disneyland has a special place in my heart because it's the only vacation we ever went on when I was a child; we didn't have much money, but Mom made sure to take us to Disney. It was really special because of that.

Granted, I don't get the obsession that people have with it but I *do* understand obsession, so I don't think about it too much!

They should just bring back the mid-90s animated series. That was the best.

Word, bro. I still watch those on occasion for a lovely dose of nostaligia-tinged awesome.

I thought it was a great adaptation of the book. I think the book does a better job of actualizing how fucked up and perfect they are for each other, but it's hard to super get into characters heads in films.